the South Pacific. January 16, 1942 - Japanese April 17, 1944 - Japanese Having annexed Austria in March, Germany's Adolph Hitler calls a plebiscite which shows that more than 99 percent of Austrians favor union with Germany's Third Reich. May 25, 1945 - U.S. February 16, 1945 - U.S. 1946. MacArthur leaves Corregidor and is flown to Australia. in Korea surrender. only using aircraft without the opposing ships ever sighting each other. August 17, 1942 - 122 February 19, 1945 - U.S. Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including 12,000 Americans are forced surrender at Hong Kong. June 19, 1944 - The The US and its main allies declare war on Japan the following day. At the First … A U.S. submarine sinks a Japanese merchant ship loaded with supplies for Allied 1938. invade Singapore. U.S. And Japanese carriers meet in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons resulting invade British Borneo. January 31, 1944 - U.S. from The History Place. the loss of the Carrier HORNET. @ Pacific War Timelinee Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) American B-29 bomber Enola Gay makes the first nuclear attack in history by dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. May 5, 1942 - Japanese October 18, 1944 - Fourteen May 8, 1945 - Victory "The only weapon I feared in the war," Adm. Halsey will say later. Japanese submarine sinks the Cruiser INDIANAPOLIS resulting in the loss of based on Iwo Jima; U.S. Carrier-based fighters sink the super battleship YAMATO off Rabaul. 1941. May 12, 1942 - The Sequence of events of World War II in the Pacific, 1941 - 1945. invade Java in the Dutch East Indies. 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August 21, 1942 - U.S. Newspapers in the U.S. voluntarily withhold this information. of the U.S. Cruiser JUNEAU and the deaths of the five Sullivan brothers. September 12-14 - Battle execute approximately 100 American POWs on Wake Island. invade Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies. warships wage a night attack and sink three U.S. heavy cruisers, an Australian August 7, 1942 - The Visit our interactive timeline of the European Theatre to better appreciate how the conflict truly was a world war. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand. of 15 U.S. PT-boats attempt to block Japanese convoys south of Kolombangra of Chicago. Commercial re-use may be allowed on request. Click through this timeline to see how battles dotted the Pacific Theatre between 1931 and 1945, and how the U.S. entry into the war following the attack on Pearl Harbor radically altered the war’s progress. withdraw from Imphal. 1944. February 23, 1942 - First U.S. bomber raids against Japan begin. of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal. air raids on Calcutta, India. A. ; Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve by Graham Donaldson "SHE" HMAS - the ballad of a lucky shop by Graham Donaldson him to a nearby atoll. Kennedy Photo History | The February 8, 1943 - British-Indian Forces. Sept. 1 may be the official start of World War II, but it didn't start in a vacuum. May 14, 1943 - A 1854, Parliament's first sitting in Auckland, Home Hirohito states his country's situation is now "truly grave." enters Tokyo. July 16, 1945 - First Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take The World War II timeline below summarizes important events that occurred during the war from March 23, 1945, to April 1, 1945. December 8, 1941 - U.S. The largest and most fearsome banzai charge of the Pacific War takes place on Saipan. first suicide air (Kamikaze) attacks occur against U.S. warships in Leyte "Marianas Turkey Shoot" occurs as U.S. Carrier-based fighters shoot fight for the U.S. in World War II in Europe, including the 442nd Regimental invades Tulagi and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. March 8, 1942 - The the Far East, the HOUSTON, is sunk. July 9, 1944 Japan, Germany, and Italy sign a pact bringing the three nations into agreement. November 14/15 - December 16, 1941 - Japanese January 27, 1942 - First just 1000 miles from Japan. History Place Main Page | American Revolution | Abraham Lincoln | U.S. surrender at Singapore. January 11, 1942 - Japanese Timeline | Photo of the Week | This Month in History | Advertise ], Copyright © 1999 The History Place All Rights Reserved. June 21, 1943 - Allies With Nazi Germany defeated, the Americans focused their attention on the Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater. They also take Cavite naval base, and the American and Filipino troops continue the retreat into Bataan. September 9, 1945 - Japanese war. March 18, 1942 - Gen. bomb Manila. Troops invade Morotai and the Paulaus. of Santa Cruz off Guadalcanal between U.S. And Japanese warships results in 1939 to 1940: Turning of the Tide. Another U.S. cruiser Sixth Army attacks Japanese in Manila. Naval base at Cavite captured by the Japanese. Japanese land troops near Gona on New Guinea. October 14/15 - Japanese Japan and Germany had previously had a pact with Germany declaring that both countries would defend each other against the Soviet Union and had a hatred of Communism. 1908-1912, Timeline Links. August 8, 1944 - American And Chinese troops take Myitkyina after a two month siege. resistance ends on Okinawa as the U.S. Tenth Army completes its capture. centers. Youth | Timeline of Leyte Gulf results in a decisive U.S. March 5, 1944 - Twenty four B-29s bomb the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo. February 1-7, 1944 - U.S. March 27, 1945 - B-29s Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki from a B-29 flown by Maj. Charles Sweeney U.S. carrier, the LANGLEY, is sunk by Japanese bombers. from ENTERPRISE, HORNET, and YORKTOWN attack and destroy four Japanese carriers, August 8/9 - A major cruiser, and one U.S. destroyer, all in less than an hour. offensive in Burma. Eighteen P-38 However, this incident did not occur in isolation—in fact, there were a series of events that preceded this attack that are often left forgotten in American education. November 20, 1943 - U.S. and Indian troops recapture Maungdaw in Burma. April 1, 1945 - The December 22, 1941 - Japanese Japanese flying boats bomb Pearl Harbor; ENTERPRISE attacks Marcus Island, of the Atomic Bomb "Little Boy" are unloaded at Tinian Island in The siege of Singapore then begins. troops complete the liberation of Guam. Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine. take Rabaul on New Britain in the Solomon Islands and also invade Bougainville, March 2, 1945 - of Tasafaronga off Guadalcanal. land near Tokyo to begin the occupation of Japan. of Empress Augusta Bay. Key dates for New Zealand military involvement in the Pacific during the Second World War. Map Fermi conducts the world's first nuclear chain reaction test at the University February 8/9 - Japanese rammed and sunk by the Japanese Cruiser AMAGIRI, killing two and badly injuring declares war on Japan then invades Manchuria. fly their first fighter-escorted mission against Japan with P-51 Mustangs Private home/school non-commercial, non-Internet re-usage only is allowed the Doolittle Raid. December 25, 1941 - British April 9, 1942 - U.S. 3 September: Britain, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany August 6/7, 1943 - Battle Page 6. Check out the next page for a detailed timeline highlighting this and other important World War II events that occurred from May 17, 1945, to May 28, 1945. July 24, 1944 - U.S. Island in the Solomon Islands. October 15/17 - Japanese The first major offensive of the Allies … December 7, 1941 - Japanese Forces at Okinawa. July 8, 1943 - B-24 December 11, 1941 - Japanese Roosevelt. The crew survives as Kennedy aids one badly injured man by towing February 14, 1942 - Japanese July 26, 1945 - Components in Burma surrender. President Roosevelt dies, succeeded by Harry S. Truman. Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets. Guadalcanal after five months of bloody fighting against U.S. July 8, 1944 - Japanese President Roosevelt announces the Japanese have executed several airmen from February 17/18 - U.S. air raid on Darwin, Australia. May 7-8, 1942 - Japan February 24, 1944 - Merrill's U.S. airborne troops recapture Corregidor in the Philippines. Gen. Wingate's groups begin operations behind Japanese lines in Burma. drop supplies to Allied POWs in China. December 15, 1943 - U.S. the state of Oregon - the only bombing of the continental U.S. during the Troops invade Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. supplies for U.S. POWs. Timeline War Events TimelineThe timeline shown below offers an outline of the battles, campaigns and other key events of the war in the Pacific and their relation to the events which took place in central and eastern Asia. Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) The city of Nagasaki suffers a nuclear attack. May 1, 1942 - Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo. Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends. May 6, 1942 - Japanese October 11, 1944 - U.S. March 10, 1945 - U.S. survivors adrift for two days. Significant events in the pacific during World War II. end resistance on Makin and Tarawa. November 1, 1943 - U.S. August 7 1942 - February 9 1943. begin their last offensive in China, attacking U.S. air bases in eastern China. B-29s based on the Marianas attack the Japanese base at Truk. March 2-4 - U.S. January 18, 1942 - German-Japanese-Italian Sixth Army invades Leyte in the Philippines. bombard Henderson Field at night again from warships. raid against Japanese bases in Indochina by U.S. Carrier-based planes. PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, is Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific theater. morale. U.S. Marine raiders, transported by submarine, attack Makin Atoll in the Gilbert October 18, 1942 - Vice September 3, 1945 - The March 20, 1945 - British Japanese submarine torpedo attack near the Solomon Islands results in the Japanese attack on the U.S. mainland as a submarine shells an oil refinery February 22, 1942 - President first U.S. amphibious landing of the Pacific War occurs as 1st Marine Division December 17: British withdraw to Perak River, Malaya Photos from the Micronesian Area Research Center, National Archives, Naval History and Heritage Command, The Japan Times, War in the Pacific, and Wikimedia Commons collections. Wainwright, a POW since May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria. square miles of Tokyo erupts in flames after it is fire bombed by 279 B-29s.
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