Pacific War
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The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II fought between Japan and the Allies in East and Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Indian Oc
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, larger edit 1
Shokaku Pearl Harbor 1st Wave
Nagasakibomb
USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes
Guadalcanal campaign
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The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by the United States, was an Allied offensive against forces of the Empire of Japan in the Solomon
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…losses in ships and aircraft as the U.S. produced ever increasing numbers of both. Major Allied offensives in the Pacific began in August 1942 with the Guadalcanal and New Guinea campaigns. These were followed by Operation Cartwheel from June 1943, which neutralized the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain…
United States Marines rest in the field during the Guadalcanal campaign.
U.S. Marines debark from LCP(L)s onto Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942.
Japanese cruiser Yūbari shines searchlights towards the northern force during the night battle around Savo Island on 9 August 1942. In the course of this action 4 allied cruisers were sunk and one was heavily damaged with no Japanese ships lost, and the transport fleet was left exposed to further attack.
Dead Japanese soldiers on the sandbar at the mouth of Alligator Creek, Guadalcanal after the Battle of the Tenaru