Pacific Campaigns

Pacific Campaigns ( 1941 – 45 )
The naval and amphibious engagements in the Pacific during World War II. The war spread to the Pacific when Japanese aircraft attacked the US naval base of Pearl Harbor in 1941 . Japan was allied to Thailand and had bases in Vichy -controlled Indo-China. Its landforces quickly occupied Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, and Burma. Other Japanese forces captured islands in the Pacific, while convoys sailed to occupy Borneo and the Dutch East Indies following the Japanese naval victory at the Battle of the Java Sea ( 27 February – 1 March 1942 ). By April the Philippines were occupied, followed by northern New Guinea, and General [The entire page is 390 words long]

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