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South West Pacific theatre of World War II

Western New Guinea campaignThe Allied command set a clear goal for early 1944. They needed to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions in the Pacific theater.
Operation MoOperation Mo, the Japanese plan to seize Port Moresby and sever Australia's connection to American support, was not improvised.
Battle of the Java SeaThe Battle of the Java Sea was fought on the 27th of February 1942. For a few hours that afternoon, Japanese commander Rear-Admiral Takeo Takagi believed his…
Battle of LuzonThe Battle of Luzon was the largest land battle of the Pacific Theater in World War II, pitting Allied forces from the United States, the Philippines…
Borneo campaignOn the 1st of May 1945, Australian soldiers paddled toward a small island off the north-east coast of Borneo in handmade folboats, slipping past…
Philippines campaign (1941–1942)The Philippines campaign of 1941-1942 opened in the pre-dawn hours of the 8th of December 1941, just hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when Japanese…
Philippines campaign (1944–1945)On the 13th of April 1945, a team of American soldiers rowed out to Fort Drum, a concrete fortress squatting in Manila Bay.
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 MindanaoThe Battle of Mindanao was fought on the second largest island in the Philippines, and it presented the Allied forces with their greatest challenge in the…
Battle of Buna–GonaThe Battle of Buna-Gona lasted from the 16th of November 1942 to the 22nd of January 1943. It ended with evidence that starving Japanese defenders had…
Bombing of DarwinThe Bombing of Darwin began at 9:58 am on the 19th of February 1942, when 188 Japanese aircraft appeared over a small Australian town that had no functioning…
Invasion of Lingayen GulfThe Invasion of Lingayen Gulf began on the 3rd of January 1945, and what followed over the next ten days would claim the lives of around 738 ship-based…
Battle of the Coral SeaThe Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from the 4th to the 8th of May 1942, stands apart from every naval engagement that preceded it.
Kokoda Track campaignThe Kokoda Track campaign was fought between July and November 1942 in the Australian Territory of Papua, and it nearly cost Australia the war in the Pacific.
Operation CartwheelIn February 1942, Japanese forces captured Rabaul on the island of New Britain from Australian troops. This location became a major forward base for Japanese…
Battle of Rabaul (1942)The Battle of Rabaul began before dawn on the 23rd of January, 1942, when a South Seas Force of around 5,000 Japanese troops entered Simpson Harbour and…