Pacific Ocean Areas

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World War II military formation military command theater of operations

Pacific Ocean Areas refers to the broader set of maritime regions and operational zones across the Pacific Ocean used for geographic, administrative, or military delineation.

Aliases (4)

Pacific Ocean region ×2
Pacific Ocean Areas headquarters ×1
Pacific Ocean area ×1
Pacific Outer Continental Shelf planning areas ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II military formation → military command → theater of operations →
alliedWith	Australia → New Zealand → United Kingdom →
appliesToJurisdiction	Central Pacific → North Pacific → Pacific Ocean → South Pacific →
commander	Chester W. Nimitz → Raymond A. Spruance → William F. Halsey Jr. →
conflict	World War II →
country	United States →
createdBy	United States Joint Chiefs of Staff →
dissolved	1945 →
excludes	South West Pacific Area → Southeast Asia Command →
hasPart	Central Pacific Area → North Pacific Area → South Pacific Area →
headquartersLocation	Hawaii → Honolulu →
inception	1942-03-30 →
language	English →
legalBasis	Joint Chiefs of Staff directive of 1942 →
militaryBranch	Royal New Zealand Air Force → Royal New Zealand Navy → United States Army → United States Marine Corps → United States Navy →
namedAfter	Pacific Ocean →
notableOperation	Battle of Midway → Battle of the Philippine Sea → Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign → Guadalcanal Campaign → Iwo Jima campaign → Mariana and Palau Islands campaign → Okinawa campaign →
opposedBy	Empire of Japan →
purpose	strategic command and control of Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean →
replaced	earlier ad hoc Pacific naval commands →
replacedBy	postwar U.S. Pacific Fleet command structure →
subordinateTo	Joint Chiefs of Staff → United States Navy →
theater	Pacific Theater →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Allied strategic bombing of Japan → MARFORPAC ("Pacific Ocean area") →	theater
South West Pacific Area →	coordinateOperationsWith
South West Pacific Area →	distinctFrom
Pacific Region (BOEM) ("Pacific Outer Continental Shelf planning areas") →	focusesOn
Central–Eastern Oceanic languages ("Pacific Ocean region") →	hasGeographicDistribution
Samoa Time Zone ("Pacific Ocean region") →	locatedIn
Chester W. Nimitz →	militaryCommand
Commander, South Pacific Area →	partOf
James Roy Andersen ("Pacific Ocean Areas headquarters") →	stationedAt
South Pacific Area command →	subordinateTo
Pacific theater commands →	subordinateUnit