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You are thinking of the Pacific Theater or PTO (Pacific Theater of Operations). It is the U.S. versing the Japanese.
The European Theater and the Pacific Theater.
Strategic Command WWII Pacific Theater was created in 2008.
The Pacific Theater of World War 2.
Pacific theater
No. he was in charge of the European theater in WW2. MacArthur was in charge of the Pacific theater.
Gen Douglas MacArthur was associated with the Pacific Theatre during WW2. He was one of the two combatant commanders (Adm Chester Nimitz being the other) determining the strategy and tactics needed to defeat the Japanese.
Island hopping, also called leapfrogging, was an important military strategy in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The strategy was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan
Two theaters of WW2 were the European theater and the Pacific theater.
Pacific Theater of Operations
The Pacific Theater.
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