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The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, was the area of operations of U.S. forces during World War II in the Pacific War during 1941-45. From mid-1942 until the end of the war in 1945, there were two U.S. operational commands in the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean Areas (POA), divided into the Central Pacific Area, the North Pacific Area and the South Pacific Area, were commanded by Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief Pacific Ocean Areas. The South West Pacific Area (SWPA), including New Guinea, Philippines, Borneo, and the Dutch East Indies, was commanded by General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander South West Pacific Area. During 1945, the United States added the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, commanded by General Carl Spaatz.
Because of the complementary roles of the United States Army and the United States Navy in conducting war in the Pacific Theater, there was no single Allied or U.S. commander (comparable to General Dwight Eisenhower in the European Theater of Operations). There was no actual command; rather, the Asiatic-Pacific Theater was divided into the SWPA, the POA, and other forces and theaters, such as the China-Burma-India Theater.
South West Pacific Area major campaigns and battles
Philippines campaign, 1942
Battle of Bataan, January–April 1942
Battle of Corregidor, May 1942
New Guinea campaign, 1942–45
Battle of Rabaul, January–February 1942
Invasion of Salamaua–Lae, March 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
Invasion of Buna-Gona, July 1942
Kokoda Track campaign, July–November 1942
Battle of Milne Bay, August–September 1942
Battle of Goodenough Island, October 1942
Battle of Buna–Gona, November 1942–January 1943
Battle of Wau, January 1943
Battle of the Bismarck Sea, March 1943
Salamaua–Lae campaign, April–September 1943
Finisterre Range campaign, September 1943–April 1944
Huon Peninsula campaign, September 1943–March 1944
Bougainville Campaign, November 1943–August 1945
New Britain campaign, December 1943–August 1945
Admiralty Islands campaign, February–May 1944
Western New Guinea campaign, April 1944–August 1945
Aitape–Wewak campaign, November 1944–August 1945
Philippines campaign, 1944-45
Battle of Leyte, October–December 1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
Battle of Palawan Passage, October 1944
Battle of Surigao Strait, October 1944
Battle off Samar, October 1944
Battle of Mindoro, December 1944
Battle of Lingayen Gulf, January 1945
Battle of Luzon, January–August 1945
Battle of Manila, February–March 1945
Battle of Corregidor, February 1945
Invasion of Palawan, February–April 1945
Battle of the Visayas, March–July 1945
Battle of Mindanao, March–August 1945
Battle of Maguindanao, January–September 1945
Borneo campaign, 1945
Battle of Tarakan, May–June 1945
Battle of North Borneo, June–August 1945
Battle of Balikpapan, July 1945
China-Burma-India Theater major campaigns and battles
Burma, December 1942–May 1942
India-Burma, April 1942–January 1945
China Defensive, July 1942–May 1945
Central Burma, January 1945–July 1945
China Offensive, May1945–September 1945
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