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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about World War Two in the Pacific.
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Parent topics

  • World War II [r]: (1931–1945) global war killing 53 million people, with the "Allies" (UK, US, Soviet Union) eventually halting aggressive expansion by the "Axis" (Nazi Germany and Japan). [e]
  • Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
  • Imperial Japanese Navy [r]: The part of the Japanese military responsible for naval warfare, 1868-1945 [e]
  • United States Navy [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces] responsible for combat on, over, and under water. [e]

Subtopics

Personalities

United States

Japan

Doctrine

  • Aircraft carrier [r]: A warship designed to launch and recover combat aircraft and aircraft that support military operations [e]
  • Battleship [r]: A heavily-armored, warship optimized for fighting other warships using large-caliber guns; certain armor requirements differentiated from cruisers; obsolete by end of World War II. [e]
  • Island hopping [r]: U.S. strategic doctrine of World War Two in the Pacific, in which Japanese island bases were invaded only if their land was needed, but bypassed and blockaded if they simply needed to be neutralized [e]
    • Earl Ellis [r]: U.S. Marine Corps officer who, in 1921, devised the fundamental strategic concept that would guide American operations in the Pacific during the Second World War [e]
  • Kamikaze [r]: Suicide attacks, specifically by Japanese aircraft in the Second World War, against military targets [e]
  • Underway replenishment [r]: A series of techniques, introduced in the Second World War, for keeping warships in constant operation by resupplying them at sea; challenging both in the pure seamanship of the transfer, and the logistical system that brings supplies to the ships [e]

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Operations

1941-1942

1944-1945

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