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Asiatic-Pacific theater

{{short description|Area of U.S. Pacific operations in World War II}}

{{About|the United States military command area in the Pacific during World War II|the operations in the central Pacific and East Asia|Pacific War|the operations in the South West Pacific|South West Pacific theatre of World War II|other uses|Pacific Theater (disambiguation)}}

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The Asiatic-Pacific Theater was the theater of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941–1945. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, two U.S. operational commands were in the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), divided into the Central Pacific Area, the North Pacific Area and the South Pacific Area,{{sfn|Potter|Nimitz|1960|pp=652–653}} were commanded by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas. The South West Pacific Area (SWPA) was commanded by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander South West Pacific Area.[https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/331.html#331.34 Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander SWPA] During 1945, the United States added the United States Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, commanded by General Carl A. Spaatz.

Because of the complementary roles of the United States Army and the United States Navy in conducting war, the Pacific Theater had no single Allied or U.S. commander (comparable to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in the European Theater of Operations). No actual command existed; rather, the Asiatic-Pacific Theater was divided into SWPA, POA, and other forces and theaters, such as the China Burma India Theater.

Major campaigns and battles

=Pacific Ocean Area=

{{See also|Pacific Ocean theater of World War II}}

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==North Pacific Area==

== Central Pacific Area ==

==South Pacific Area==

=South West Pacific Area=

{{See also|South West Pacific theatre of World War II}}

=China-Burma-India Theater=

{{See also|China Burma India Theater}}

  • Burma, December 1942 – May 1942
  • India-Burma, April 1942 – January 1945
  • China Defensive, July 1942 – May 1945
  • Central Burma, January 1945 – July 1945
  • China Offensive, May 1945 – September 1945

{{cite web |title= World War II – Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaigns |url= http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/army_flag/ww2_ap.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080922082017/http://www.history.army.mil/html/reference/army_flag/ww2_ap.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= September 22, 2008 |publisher= U.S. Army Center of Military History |access-date= 21 October 2015}}

Explanatory notes

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Citations

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General and cited references

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  • {{cite book |last=Dull |first=Paul S. |date=1978 |title=A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=0-87021-097-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/battlehistoryofi0000dull}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Kafka |first1=Roger |last2=Pepperburg |first2=Roy L. |year=1946 |title=Warships of the World |publisher=Cornell Maritime Press |location=New York}}
  • {{cite book |last=Ofstie |first=Ralph A. |author-link=Ralph A. Ofstie |year=1946 |title=The Campaigns of the Pacific War |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C.}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Potter |first1=E. B. |author-link=E. B. Potter |last2=Nimitz |first2=Chester W. |author2-link=Chester Nimitz |title=Sea Power: A Naval History |place=Englewood Cliffs, NJ |publisher=Prentice-Hall |year=1960 |edition=First}}
  • {{cite book |last=Silverstone |first=Paul H. |year=1968 |title=U.S. Warships of World War II |publisher=Doubleday and Company}}
  • {{cite book |last=Sulzberger |first=C. L. |author-link=C. L. Sulzberger |year=1966 |title=The American Heritage Picture History of World War II |publisher=Crown Publishers}}
  • {{cite book |last=Vego |first=Milan N. |title=Joint Operational Warfare: Theory and Practice |publisher=United States Naval War College |location=Newport, Rhode Island |year=2007}}
  • {{cite book |last=Vego |first=Milan N. |author-mask=3 |title=The Battle for Leyte, 1944: Allied and Japanese Plans, Preparations, and Execution |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |year=2006}}

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Further reading

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  • {{cite book |last=Cressman |first=Robert J. |year=2000 |title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=1-55750-149-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII |ref=none}}
  • {{cite book |last=Drea |first=Edward J. |author-link=Edward J. Drea |year=1998 |title=In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Nebraska |isbn=0-8032-1708-0 |ref=none}}
  • {{cite book |last=Miller |first=Edward S. |year=2007 |title=War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=978-1-59114-500-4 |ref=none}}
  • {{cite book |last=Toll |first=Ian W. |author-link=Ian W. Toll |title=Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |date=2011 |ref=none}}
  • {{cite book |last=Toll |first=Ian W. |author-mask=3 |title=The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |date=2015 |ref=none}}
  • {{cite book |last=Toll |first=Ian W. |author-mask=3 |title=Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945 |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |date=2020 |ref=none}}

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{{States in the sphere of influence of Imperial Japan during World War II}}

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