End of World War II in the Pacific and Europe
A sweeping recap of the war from the fall of Singapore through the Pacific battles at Java Sea, Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Philippine campaigns to Nazi defeat in Europe. It notes key figures like MacArthur and Nimitz, major losses, and the Potsdam and atomic bomb milestones.
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Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Burma
Singapore
Dunkerque
Kota Bharu
Far East
Britain
India
East Indies
Australia
Middle East
Borneo
Ed Eggeand
U. S
Java Sea
United Nations
C. E. L. Helfrich
Java
Batavia
Bangdoeng
Sumatra
Orient
Thailand
Moulmein
Sittang
Rangoon
Marchain
Mandalay
Lashio
China
Salween Gorge
Yunnan
Joseph W. Stilwell
Singere
America
MacArthur
Corregidor
Southeast Asia
Antipodes
Admiralty Isles
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Washington
London
Moscow
Suez
Indies
Philippines
Africa
Manila
Solomon Sea
Loundes
The
Coral Sea
Lexington
Tulagi
Salamaua
Lae
Little Brown Warriors
Buna
Owen Stanley Range
St Moresby
Milne Bay
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Midway
Pacific
Aleutians
Navy
Squadron 8
Japan
Yorktown
Hitler
Kharkov
Stalingrad
Rommel
Tobruk
el Alamein
Guadalcanal
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Alexander A. Vandergrift
Henderson
Tokyo Express
Savo Island
Nassau Bay
Markham
Guine
Finschhafen
Gene
George C Kenney
Bismarck Sea
Kenney
Buzz
Solomons Islands
Russell Islands
Rendova
New Georgia
Vella Lavella
Solomons
Arundel Island
Kolombangara
Treasury Islands
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Dampier Strait
Arawe
Cape Gloucester
Attu
Massacre Bay
Oan Harbor
Kiska
Itu
Alaska
Central Pacific
Tarawa
Marine
Wang Fey
Marine Corpstory
Gilbert Islands
Drawa
Makin
Nanumea
Ellice Group
Europe
Normandy
Rome
Sear
Marianas
Saidor
Nimitz
William F. (Bull) Halsey
Dwight D. Eisenhower
England
North Africa
Jutland
Daniel J. Callaghan
Callaghan
San Francisco
United States
Wasp
Hornet
Port Morseby
Sir Thomas A. Blamey
Stali d
MacArthur -Dise
Robert L. Eichelberger
Mussolini
Italy
Aitape
Hollandia
Dutch New Guiana
Wake Islands
Biak Island
Noemfoer Island
Sansapor
mid-Pacific
Marshall Islands
Kwajalein
Marshalls
Truk
Carolines
Ipan
Long Island
Eisenhower
South Pacific
Mount Tapotchau
League of Nations
Garapan
Philippine Sea
Guam
Saipan
Tinian
Stars and Stripes
Adm. Nimitz
Marianea
Hideki Tojo
Kaniaki Koiso
Peleliu
Palaus
First Marine Division
Alligators
Moluccas
Bloody Nose Ridge
Rocky Peleliu
Pe Pines
Leyte Island
Voice of Freedom
Halsey
Thomas Kincaid
Walter Krueger
Marc A. Mitscher
Formosa
Ryukyus
Tacloban
Leyte
Sergio Osmena
Mindanao
Luzon
Leyte Gulf
Princeton
Sulu Sea
Suriago Strait
Sibyuan Sea
San Bernardino Strait
Kinkaid
Cape Engano
Jesse Oldendorf
Surigao Strait
Tsushima Strait
Ormoc
77Thvision
Bataan
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Sixth Army
Lingayen Gulf
Seventh Fleet
Kuriles
Okinawa
Samar
Mindoro
Krueger
Camp O'Donnell
Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Subic Bay
11Th Airborne
Nasugbu
Tagaytay Ridge
Cavite Naval Base
Calvary
Santo Tomas
1Ith Airborne
Intramuros
Pearl of the Orient
38Th
Ork
Cagayan
Iwo Jima
Marine Corps
Stagele
Mount Suribachi
Motoyama Heights
Suribachi
Iwo
Jima
Rhine
Franklin
Bunker Hill
Tenth
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Sakishima Islands
Long
Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru
Chocolate Drop Hill
Sugar Loaf Hill
Buckner
Oseph W. Stilwell
Stilwell
Salween
Ina
Yangtze
Canton
Indo-China
Foochow
Wenchow
Russia
Koiso
Adm
Kantaro Suzuki
Asiatic
Korea
Kyushu
Sea of Okhotsk
Siberia
Shanghai
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
20Th Air Force
Germany
Potsdam
Tokyo Bay
John S. McCain
Hiroshima
Manchuria
Cairo
Cone
Lucky 18 at Atlantic City Air Center
Ye Edward S. Chess, Buffalo, N. Y., a B 24 gunner awaiting reassignment, recalls a September Friday when his crew returned from a mission badly battered by 100 flak holes but in reasonably good shape.
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Atlantic City
INS
Edward S. Chess
Buffalo
AAF