Pacific Theater
WWII ocean campaign
The Pacific Theater was the arena of World War II encompassing the Pacific Ocean, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, where Allied forces fought Japan from 1941 to 1945.
It included major campaigns at Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, ending with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Distinguished from the European Theater, where the Allies fought Germany and Italy.
- Solomon IslandsOceanian archipelago nation
- GuadalcanalMelanesian island, fierce 1942 fighting
- Iwo JimaJapanese volcanic island battlefield
- Pearl HarborHawaiian military port attacked 1941
- Battle of MidwayDecisive Pacific naval engagement
Emperor Hirohito · United States · Rising Sun · Hiroshima · USS Missouri · bomber · Hawaii · World War II · island hopping · Okinawa · Enola Gay · Bataan · Papua New Guinea · Japan · kamikaze pilots · Philippines · Aleutian Islands · Australia
- Pacific MarinesGuadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Saipan, Guam
- Naval Aviationnaval aviation, naval aviator, flight deck, fighter squadrons, air wing
- naval forcesnavy, fleet, warships, Royal Navy, US Navy
- conquestwar of conquest, capture, invasion, domination, subjugation
- WWII AlliesAllied Powers, United States, United Kingdom, Britain, France
- military logisticssupply depots, supply lines, supply depot, resupply, supply ships
Pacific TheaterEuropean Theater
WWII's western combat zone
Western Front · Eastern Front · Battle of the Bulge · Normandy · Stalingrad