​​🔗=======================> Key High-Level WWII Links <================​======​🔗
   Module:       WWII Dead        WWII Hub         WWII US         WWII Japan                WWII Germany
Submodule:      Roster                                         Sources                                                   MTO      ETO      ​​

​​🔗=============================> The World War II Japan Module <===​================​==​========​🔗
subpages:  Overview     Japan Ascendant     Japan Lashes Out     Japan Overreaches     South & Southwest Pacific​
                    North Pacific    Central Pacific    Philippines Liberated​​     Iwo Jima & Okinawa    Japan Overpowered
                    Pacific Base Areas     Naval War     Ground War     Air Force War     China-Burma-India Theater
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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 summarizes United States involvement in the Japanese component of World War II.​
​Links to Big Pigeon's WWII Japan submodules: 
Preliminary webpages provide contextual material: Japan's series of victories in the first five months of the war: The pivotal naval air battles of Coral Sea and Midway: The Allied response beginning with Guadalcanal and Papua:  Military action in Alaska:​ The massive United States Central Pacific campaign beginning with Tarawa: ​The US recapture of the Philippine Islands:   ​​ Acquiring forward bases for the invasion of Japan: The final months of the Japanese Empire:​Concluding War with Japan webpages:
Military action on the Asian mainland:
About the above links to WWII Japan subpages:​
  • See The World War II Japan Module above the page header for a concise list of  these links.
  • WWII Hub contains a list of all WWII Japan subpages.
  • Some webpages are currently incomplete.
High-Level Views of the War with Japan
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:
WW 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 one a survivor of the War with Japan with family or neighborhood connection to me.
  • Lloyd Joyce of Garden City, Kansas, my daughter's father-in-law, served with 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 northern New Guinea and on Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines. Lloyd suffered a serious shrapnel wound on Leyte but after hospitalization returned to his unit on Luzon.​ ​