bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Japan, © 2024 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 28 Feb 2024.
Links to Big Pigeon's WWII Japan submodules: (WWII Hub above shows all WWII Japan webpages.)
- WWII Japan Overview
- Order of Battle
- Japan Ascendant (to Dec '41)
- Japan Lashes Out (Dec '41–May '42)
- Japan Overreaches (May–Sep '42)
- The South & Southwest Pacific (1942–1944)
- The North Pacific (1942–1943)
- The Central Pacific (Nov '43–Nov '44)
- The Philippines Liberated (Oct '44–Aug '45)
- Iwo Jima & Okinawa (1945)
- Japan Overpowered (Oct '44–Sep '45)
- US Navy War with Japan - access summary of major naval operations in the War with Japan.
- US Ground Forces War with Japan
- US Army Air Force War with Japan - summarizes roles of seven US air forces in the War with Japan.
- The Pacific Base Areas
- The China-Burma-India Theater (1941–1945)
Viewed geographically, the War with Japan has two major components:
- The war in Asia, which started with the 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.
- 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:
- 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 one a survivor of the War with Japan with family or neighborhood connection to me.
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.