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The Pacific War

Name	Date	Start Date
Attack on Pearl Harbor	7 Dec 1941	19411207
Invasion of the Philippine Islands	7 Dec 1941 - 5 May 1942	19411207
Invasion of Guam	8 Dec 1941 - 10 Dec 1941	19411208
Invasion of Malaya and Singapore	8 Dec 1941 - 15 Feb 1942	19411208
Battle of Wake Island	11 Dec 1941 - 23 Dec 1941	19411211
Dutch East Indies Campaign, Borneo	15 Dec 1941 - 1 Apr 1942	19411215
Dutch East Indies Campaign, Celebes and Moluccas	11 Jan 1942 - 31 Jul 1942	19420111
New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 1, Bismarck Islands	20 Jan 1942 - 24 Jan 1942	19420120
Dutch East Indies Campaign, Java	4 Feb 1942 - 31 Mar 1942	19420204
Dutch East Indies Campaign, Sumatra	13 Feb 1942 - 28 Mar 1942	19420213
Attack on Darwin	19 Feb 1942	19420219
New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2	8 Mar 1942 - 4 Mar 1943	19420308
Doolittle Raid	18 Apr 1942	19420418
Battle of Coral Sea	7 May 1942 - 8 May 1942	19420507
Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands	4 Jun 1942 - 7 Jun 1942	19420604
Guadalcanal Campaign	7 Aug 1942 - 9 Feb 1943	19420807
Makin Island Raid	17 Aug 1942 - 18 Aug 1942	19420817
Solomon Islands Campaign	23 Aug 1942 - 25 Dec 1943	19420823
Aleutian Islands Campaign	26 Mar 1943 - 16 Aug 1943	19430326
New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3	30 Sep 1943 - 23 May 1945	19430930
Gilbert Islands Campaign	13 Nov 1943 - 24 Nov 1943	19431113
Marshall Islands Campaign	29 Jan 1944 - 21 Feb 1944	19440129
Attack on Truk	16 Feb 1944 - 18 Feb 1944	19440216
Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot	13 Jun 1944 - 10 Aug 1944	19440613
Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaigns	15 Sep 1944 - 1 Dec 1944	19440915
Battle of Morotai	15 Sep 1944 - 14 Jan 1945	19440915
Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign	22 Oct 1944 - 21 Dec 1944	19441022
Philippines Campaign, Phase 2	12 Dec 1944 - 15 Aug 1945	19441212
Raid into the South China Sea	10 Jan 1945 - 20 Jan 1945	19450110
Battle of Iwo Jima	19 Feb 1945 - 26 Mar 1945	19450219
Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities	19 Feb 1945 - 10 Aug 1945	19450219
Okinawa Campaign	1 Apr 1945 - 21 Jun 1945	19450401
Borneo Campaign	11 Apr 1945 - 15 Aug 1945	19450411
Preparations for Invasion of Japan	14 Jul 1945 - 9 Aug 1945	19450714
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945	19450806
Japan's Surrender	14 Aug 1945 - 2 Sep 1945	19450814

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