bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Japan, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 31 Jan 2023.
The United States in WWII - Combat Operations in the War with Japan
The United States in WWII - Combat Operations in the War with Japan
═════════════════════════════════════════════════════Links to all of Big Pigeon's WWII Japan webpages:
- WWII Japan Overview
- Japan Ascendant (to Dec '41
- Japan Lashes Out (Dec '41 - May '42)
- Pearl Harbor (Dec '41)
- Guam and Wake Island (Dec '41)
- Malaya and Singapore Lost (Dec '41 - Feb '42)
- The Dutch Indies Lost (Dec '41 - Mar '42)
- The Philippines Lost (Dec '41 - May '42)
- New Guinea & the Solomon Islands (before Aug 1942)
- Japan Overreaches (May - Sep '42)
- Battle of the Coral Sea (May '42)
- Battle of Midway (Jun '42)
- The South & Southwest Pacific (1942 - 1944)
- The Solomon Islands Naval War
- The Solomon Islands - Guadalcanal (Aug 1942 - Feb 1943)
- Southeast New Guinea - Papua (Jul 1942 - Jan 1943)
- Northeast New Guinea - Lae to Madang (Apr 1943 - Apr 1944)
- The Solomon Islands - New Georgia (Jun - Aug 1943)
- The Solomon Islands - Bougainville (Nov 1943 - Mar 1944)
- The Bismarck Archipelago (Dec 1943 - Apr 1944)
- Western New Guinea (Apr 1944 - Sep 1944)
- The North Pacific (1942 - 1943)
- Alaska
- Attu & Kiska
- The Central Pacific (Nov '43 - Nov '44)
- The Gilbert Islands
- The Marshall Islands
- The Mariana Islands
- The Palau Islands
- The Philippines Liberated (Oct '44 - Aug '45)
- The Leyte Campaign
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf
- The Philippines Naval War
- The Luzon Campaign
- The Southern Philippines Campaign
- Iwo Jima & Okinawa (1945)
- Iwo Jima (Feb - Mar '45)
- Okinawa (Apr - Jun '45)
- Naval Battle of Okinawa (Apr - Jun '45)
- The China - Burma - India Theater (1941 - 1945)
- China - 1941-45
- India - 1942-45
- Burma - 1941-45
- Crossing the Hump - 1942-45
- Japan Overpowered (Oct '44 - Sep '45)
- Japan Under Attack
- Strategic Air War - Japan - B-29 bombing of the Japanese Home Islands.
- Japan Vanquished
- US Navy War with Japan - access summary of major naval operations in the War with Japan.
- US Submarine Force
- Third & Fifth Fleets - the main battle component of the US Pacific Fleet
- US Air Force War with Japan - summarizes roles of seven US air forces in the War with Japan.
- Fifth Air Force
- Seventh Air Force
- Thirteenth Air Force
- The Pacific Base Areas
Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Japan webpage:
- The webpage header photo, Pearl Harbor, 7 May '41 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Pearl_Harbor_torpedo_attack_Japanese_aerial.jpg/1024px-Pearl_Harbor_torpedo_attack_Japanese_aerial.jpg
- The webpage header photo, Tokyo Bay, 2 Sep 1945 - https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002300818/
- See also Big Pigeon's webpage WWII > WWII Web Resources > Japan.
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 some with a family or neighborhood connection who served in the War with Japan and survived.
At the end of each webpage outlining a battle or campaign, I list the dead with Pottawattamie area connections. Here I list some with a family or neighborhood connection who served in the War with Japan and survived.
- 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. 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.