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Not directly- but. Germany and Japan were allies. ( Axis powers, along with Italy) Hirohito used Mercedes-Benz staff cars, for example. There was some limited interchange of German aircraft and related weapons ( mounted machine guns for AA usage) by the Japanese. The Japanese copied the famed 88 MM cannon but did not get it right! the Japanese tended to scorn Defensive tactics ( such as AA guns would be used in) and this was to their detriment.
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The two main US enemies in World War 2 were the Japanese and Germans. US personnel also fought against Italians, Romanians, Vichy French, and other Axis personnel, but on a much smaller scale. The locations were Western Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the Atlantic.
Either live in the Japanese Concentration/Internment camps or fight in Europe.
Some Japanese soldiers called "Hold Outs" in the Pacific.
It gave the allies a foothold in Europe in order to defeat the Germans....
They fought an extremely bloody war (1941-1945) in the Pacific Ocean. This contributor is of the belief that if Hitler and Mussolini had never been born, the US and Japan would still have fought a war for supremacy in the Pacific.
No. In the Pacific during World War 2, the threat to Australia itself came from the Japanese, not the Germans (Nazis). However Australian military units did fight in Europe and North Africa against the Germans & Italians.Australia was attacked by the Japanese air & naval units, however no actual invasion by ground troops was attempted.
Germans
In 1941 the war really became completely global. not only was the war being fought in Europe but that was the year that the Japanese attacked pearl harbor prompting the US to go fight the Japanese in the pacific
After the war in Europe, which ended in May of 1945, General Patton expressed his desires to fight the Japanese, now that he had finished fighting the Germans.
i believe it was the island hopping strategy
The two main US enemies in World War 2 were the Japanese and Germans. US personnel also fought against Italians, Romanians, Vichy French, and other Axis personnel, but on a much smaller scale. The locations were Western Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and the Atlantic.
They fought with the Germans and Japanese against US, UK, USSR and France, Poland
Either live in the Japanese Concentration/Internment camps or fight in Europe.
Either live in the Japanese Concentration/Internment camps or fight in Europe.
You see, German hegemony over most of continental Europe; Italian hegemony over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese hegemony over East Asia and the Pacific made them partners in crime.
WW II took place in the Pacific, African, and Europe.
Some Japanese soldiers called "Hold Outs" in the Pacific.