​​   🔗===========> High-Level WWII Modules and Key Submodules <============🔗
    WWII Dead             WWII Hub             WWII US             WWII Japan            WWII Germany
Roster    Locality                                Overview   Sources                                         MTO    ETO   ​​

​​🔗===================> The WWII Japan Module <===​==========​==​=====​🔗
Summary     Japan Ascendant     Japan Lashes Out     Japan Overreaches     South & SW Pacific​
New Guinea     Solomons     North Pacific    Central Pacific    Philippines     Iwo Jima-Okinawa
Victory     Pacific Base Areas     Naval War     Land War     Air Force War     China-Burma-India
​   ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––WWII Japan –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Pearl Harbor - 7 Dec 1941
Pearl Harbor, Dec '41
2 Sep 1945, Tokyo Bay
Tokyo Bay, Sep '45
 bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Japan, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 2 Jul 2025
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Big Pigeon's WWII Japan module outlines United States involvement in the Japanese component of World War II.​

=============== High-Level Views of the War with Japan ==============
(See WWII Japan Summary for a fuller treatment.)

Viewed geographically, the War with Japan had two major components:
  • The war on the Asian continent, which started with the Second Sino-Japanese War between China and Japan from 1937 to 1941, and segued into operations in what is known as the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater from 1941 to 1945.
  • The war in the vast Pacific Ocean area, often briefly referred to as Pacific Theater operations, from 1941 to 1945.
Viewed by belligerents:
  • The war in Asia involved the Republic of China vs the Japanese Empire from 1937 to 1941 and the British Empire, United States and Republic of China vs. the Japanese Empire from 1941 to 1945.
  • Pacific Theater operations  primarily involved the United States vs. Japan, with Australia and New Zealand  providing major help in the Southwest Pacific. 
  ======================= Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Japan webpage ========================
  ======================= World War II Japan - They Served and Survived =======================

At the end of each webpage outlining a battle or campaign, I list the dead with Pottawattamie area connections. Here I list a survivor of the War with Japan with an extended family or neighborhood connection to me.
  • Lloyd Joyce of Garden City, Kansas, my daughter's father-in-law, served in Troop F of the 112th Cavalry Regiment. His unit first saw combat during the December 1943 landing at Aware on the south coast of New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago. Lloyd's unit later fought in New Guinea in the Battle of the Driniumor River. Then he, although sick with malaria, moved on to Leyte with his regiment. Lloyd suffered a serious shrapnel wound on Leyte but after hospitalization returned to his unit, which by now had moved on to  Luzon.​ ​
  • Albert Dennis, my wife's father, was a crew member of the PT Tender Oyster Bay, which escorted PT boats to Morotai for before escorting another PT squadron to  Leyte Gulf.