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19 lip 2021 · Even before the United States formally entered World War II, American engineers gained experience constructing expeditionary airfields. In August 1941, the US military began developing air bases on islands in the Pacific between Hawaii and Australia.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the air, ground and naval forces of the Empire of Japan in the South West Pacific Theatre.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces engaged in combat against the Empire of Japan in the South Pacific Area. As defined by the War Department, this consisted of the Pacific Ocean areas which lay south of the Equator between longitude 159° East and 110° West.
PACAF comprises three numbered Air Forces, nine main bases and nearly 375 aircraft. The command's area of responsibility extends from the west coast of the United States to the east coast of Asia and from the Arctic to the Antarctic, more than 100,000,000 square miles (260,000,000 km 2).
Chapter XXIV Bases in the South Pacific. By one stroke on December 7, 1941, Japan seized the initiative in the Pacific. Long-made plans for offensive action by our Pacific Fleet in the event of war had to be discarded overnight.
the first day of the Pacific War, in 1941, is readily acknowledged by most; but its corol-lary—the failure of U.S. air power in the Philippines and Hawaii—is often overlooked.While this failure of American air power may be written off to the tactical—and operational—surprise achieved in Hawaii, this was hardly the case in the
The Pacific Strategy, 1941-1944. On December 7, 1941, Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, severely damaging the US Pacific Fleet. When Germany and Italy declared war on the United States days later, America found itself in a global war.
