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Pacific War
Part of World War II
Map indicating US landings during the Pacific War
Map showing the main areas of the conflict and Allied landings in the Pacific, 1942–45.
Date
7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945
(3 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Location
    • East Asia
    • South Asia
    • Southeast Asia
Result
Territorial
changes

Allied occupation of Japan

Belligerents

Allies[1]
 United States

Republic of China[2]
 United Kingdom

 Australia
 Canada
 New Zealand
 Netherlands

 Soviet Union (1945)

and others [nb 1]

Axis
 Empire of Japan

 Thailand

and others [nb 2]
Commanders and leaders
Strength
Republic of China (1912–1949) 14,000,000 [3]
United Kingdom 2,400,000 [4]
Soviet Union 1,669,500 [5]
United States 1,250,000 [6]
Empire of Japan 8,400,000 [7]
Casualties and losses
  • Military deaths
    4,000,000 (1937–45)[nb 3]
  • Civilian deaths
    25,000,000+ (1937–45)[nb 4]
  • Military deaths
    2,000,000 (1937–45)[nb 5]
  • Civilian deaths
    960,000+[nb 6]
  • a Including its islands and neighboring countries.
  • b Partially and briefly.
  1. ^ A Decade of American Foreign Policy 1941–1949 Interim Meeting of Foreign Ministers, Moscow. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
  2. ^ At war since 1937.
  3. ^ Hastings: Retribution pg. 205
  4. ^ Hastings: Retribution pg. 10 2,000,000 Indians and 400,000 British
  5. ^ Beevor: The Second World War pg. 776 Total involved in Manchuria
  6. ^ Spector pg. 382
  7. ^ http://worldwar2-database.blogspot.com/2010/10/world-war-ii-casualties.html
  8. ^ a b "Chinese People Contribute to WWII". Retrieved 23 April 2009.
  9. ^ The National World War II Museum, New Orleans[dead link]
  10. ^ a b c d Dower, John William (1987), War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Pantheon
  11. ^ Dear, I.C.B and Foot, M.R.D. (editors) (2005). "Australia". The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-19-280670-3. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Honouring NZ's Pacific War dead". Beehive. 15 August 2005. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  13. ^ "Russia and USSR in Wars of the 20th Century". И.И.Ивлев. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008. Retrieved 11 July 2008.
  14. ^ Leyte Gulf: The Mexican Air Force
  15. ^ "Science and the Pacific War: Science and Survival in the Pacific, 1939–1945". Roy M. MacLeod (2000). p. 51. ISBN 0-7923-5851-1
  16. ^ "Vietnam needs to remember famine of 1945". Mailman.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
  17. ^ Bren, John (3 June 2005) "Yasukuni Shrine: Ritual and Memory" Japan Focus. Retrieved on 5 June 2009.


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