WW II Pacific Theater Overview. World War II in the Pacific covered a vast sweep of ocean and land, involving millions of soldiers in years of epic conflict. This page gives an overview of the immense undertaking. Captain John R. Campbell, Quartermaster Corps, left, and First Sergeant Richard Estes, right, giving technical advice to mechanics, New Guinea, March 1943.
World War II, Pacific Theater of Operations, Overview Map. CHAPTER 23: World War II: The War Against Japan. By Reprinted from World War II: The War Against Japan In World War II, for the first time, the United States had to fight a war on two fronts. Though the central strategic principle governing allocation of resources to the two fronts provided for concentrating first on the defeat of the European Axis, on the American side this principle was liberally interpreted, permitting conduct of an offensive war against Japan as well as against Germany in the years 1943-45. The U.S.
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