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Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
- Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaignIn August 1942, the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps began their first large-scale offensive across the Central Pacific.
- Battle of Guam (1941)The Battle of Guam began at 04:44 on the 8th of December 1941, when Captain George McMillin received word of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- End of World War II in AsiaAt 3:24 on the morning of the 2nd of September 1945, a ceremony in Tokyo Bay brought the deadliest conflict in human history to its formal close in Asia.
- Battle of Leyte GulfThe Battle of Leyte Gulf, fought from the 23rd to the 26th of October 1944, pulled more than 200,000 naval personnel into a single sprawling confrontation in…
- Battle of the Philippine SeaThe Battle of the Philippine Sea, fought on the 19th and the 20th of June 1944, was the largest carrier-to-carrier naval engagement in history.
- Invasion of Lingayen GulfOn the 22nd of December 1941, the Japanese 14th Army under Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma landed on the northeastern shores of Lingayen Gulf at Agoo…
- Operation HailstoneOperation Hailstone struck Truk Lagoon on the 17th and the 18th of February 1944, and it dismantled one of the most feared myths in the Pacific War in less…
- Guadalcanal campaignThe Guadalcanal campaign began on the 7th of August 1942 with 11,000 U.S. Marines wading ashore between Koli Point and Lunga Point on a remote jungle island…
- Operation KeOperation Ke was the largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal, concluding a six-month struggle that had defined the Pacific War's…
- Allied submarines in the Pacific WarAllied submarines in the Pacific War quietly dismantled the Japanese empire from beneath the ocean surface, yet their campaign remains one of the…