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This 8 page paper is an overview of the U.S. involvement in the Pacific theater of operations in WWII. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_HVPacOps.rtf
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cover all the action, so the first thing we should decide is whether this will be a general, and of necessity vary superficial, overview; or if we want to concentrate
on one particular battle. Well do a general overview; the student can decide which battle or campaign to follow in detail. Discussion The Pacific was unsettled for years before the
United States came into the conflict. For instance, Japan invaded China for the second time in 1937, and was not forced out until the end of the Second World War
in 1945. Despite Japans aggression the U.S. did not come into the war until Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941. However, even before the attack, "President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the American military chiefs had agreed on a common strategy with Great Britain: Germany, the most powerful and dangerous of the Axis powers, must be defeated first" (The
Pacific war). The government would provide only enough men and materiel to the Pacific theater to keep the Japanese "west of an Alaska-Hawaii-Panama defensive line" (The pacific war). Unlike the
war in Europe, which was (obviously) fought mostly on land, and in which the U.S. Army played a large part, the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) was a maritime war,
in which the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps were heavily engaged, although there was Army presence as well. Still, it is the Marines that are most closely associated with
the many landings made in the Pacific, and the names of the battles are still familiar to most people: Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Okinawa. This means that there was actually little
competition for resources between the commanders in the European and Pacific theaters. "The Pacific was a naval war, and little U.S. offensive naval power was required in the Atlantic besides
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