Pearl Harbor - 7 Dec 1941
Hawaii, Dec '41
2 Sep 1945, Tokyo Bay
Tokyo Bay, Sep '45
 bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Japan, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 25 May 2023. 
The United States in WWII - Combat Operations in the War with Japan​
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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.
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. 

I have not yet written for inclusion here an analogous summary of the War with Germany
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 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.​ ​