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...was then deployed by the [[United States Air Force]] in a bid to end the [[Pacific War]] against Japan without the need for an invasion of the Japanese mainland.

...n Campaign]], one of the longest and most bitterly fought campaigns of the Pacific War. The fight ostensibly was for Port Moresby, but it was Australia, no less t

==Pacific War campaigns==

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...e of Okinawa|Okinawa campaign]], the largest amphibious operation of the [[Pacific War]]. Following brief stops in [[Eniwetok]] and [[Ulithi]], the cargo ship arr

* Sun, Youli. ''China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941.'' (1993). 244 pp. * Tarling, Nicholas. ''Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War.'' (1996). 434 pp.

...[[Battle of Kolombangara]] before returning to the mainland. Again in the Pacific War Area in September 1943, he participated in the Gilbert Islands operation on

...L. ''The Solomons Campaigns, 1942-1943: From Guadalcanal to Bougainville--Pacific War Turning Point, Volume 2'' (Amphibious Operations in the South Pacific in WW

...rned to [[Hampton Roads]], Va., 24 November and began preparations for a [[Pacific War|Pacific]] voyage. With [[Germany]] facing defeat, ''Oberon'' was reassigned to the [[Pacific War|Pacific]]. Once again she began a new year in transit through the Panama Ca

...it was one of the fundamental public strategic ideas used by Japan in the Pacific War, introduced by the document "Essentials for Implementing Administration in

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...er third cargo of ammunition at Pearl Harbor when the [[Surrender of Japan|Pacific War ended]], and she returned the ammunition still on board to San Francisco. O

...c Gallicchio, ed. ''The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations.'' (2007).

...in January 1945. The attack transport got underway [[7 January]] for the [[Pacific War|Pacific theater]], sailing via the [[Panama Canal Zone|Canal Zone]] to [[Pe

* Sun, Youli. ''China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941.'' (1993).

...e the archetypal representation not only of that battle, but of the entire Pacific war. Of the six soldiers in Rosenthal's photo, only three survived the battle.

...e Line: Master Chief Petty Officer Melvin Kealoha Bell – minority pioneer, Pacific War hero

...[[Battle of Midway]]. Midway, usually considered the turning point of the Pacific War, was a very close battle; had the six carriers of the Mobile Striking Fleet

* Dower, John W. ''War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.'' Pantheon, 1986. 398 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/War-Without-Mercy-Power-