World War II Asia-Pacific Use the following links to view maps: WWII Major Operations of the Asian and Pacific Theater Pacific and the Far East The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939 China, 1941 Major Japanese War Objectives and Planned Opening Attacks Major Allied Forces and Positions, December 1941 Japanese Centrifugal Offensive December 1941 British Land and Air Dispositions, 7 December 1941 and Japanese Centrifugal Offensive Dec.1941 - Jan. 1942 Luzon P.I. Communications Net, American Dispositions, 8 December 1941 Luzon, P.I., Centrifugal Offensive, 10 Dec. - 6 May 1942 Netherlands East Indies, Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941 - April 1942 Southern Asia, Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, January - May 1942 Micronesia, Melanesia and New Guinea, Japanese Centrifugal Offensive American carrier Operations, 7 December 1941- 18 April 1942 Operations of the Japanese First Air Fleet, 7 December 1941 - 12 March 1942 The Battle of the Coral Sea, 6-8 May 1942 and The Battle of Midway, 3-6 June 1942 Status of Allied Forces and Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942 The Guadalcanal Campaign, August - October 1942 Papa, New Guinea, 1942 Papa, New Guinea, September - November 1942 CARTWHEEL, The seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls and Concurent Air and Naval Operations The Solomons and New Guinea, June 1943 - April 1944 Original Allied Strategic Concept, May 1943 and Situation in Pacific 1 November 1943 The Gilbert Islands, Initial Operations of the 27th Infantry and Assault by 2nd Marine Division, November 1943 Kwajalein Atoll, January - February 1944 Allied Advances to the Marianas, 22 April - 24 July 1944 The Marianas, June-August 1944 Allied Advances to the Palaus and Morotai and Air Attacks on the Philippines, July-September 1944 Invasion of Hollandia, 1944 The Invasion of Leyte, October 1944 Sixth Army Operations on Leyte and Sambar, October-December 1944 Sixth Army Operations, Mindoro and Marinduque Islands, December 1944 - January 1945 Japanese Fourteenth Area Army Dispositions Prior to 9 January 1945 Invasion of Luzon and the Advance to Manila, 9 January-4 February 1945 Final Operations on Luzon Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area China, 1920-1950 Chinese Territory Seized Prior to July 1937 and Major Japanese Drives in 1937 China, Japanese Advances During 1938 and 1939 Allied Reorganization, 30 March 1942 and Area Under Japanese Control, 6 August 1942 India-Burma, Allied Area of Communications, 1942-1943 The Third Burma Campaign, November 1943 - May 1944 a The Third Burma Campaign, November 1943 - May 1944 b Operation ICHIGO, April-December 1944 and Situation 31 December The Third Burma Campaign, Allied Victory, April-May 1945 Operation ICHIGO, 1945 and Final Operations in the War Summary of Allied Pacific Campaigns and Status of Japanese Forces, 1 February 1945 Allied Invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, 1945 Okinawa, April 1945 Okinawa, April-June 1945 Japanese Homeland Security and Allied Plans for the Invasion of Japan, August 1945 The Bombing of Japan Areas Under Allied Japanese Control, 15 August 1945