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19 lip 2021 · Reviewing the US military’s experience constructing, maintaining, and operating aircraft from advance expeditionary airfields in the Pacific Theater in World War II highlights several factors that shaped the role of these airfields in operations.
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.
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.
On 8 December 1941, Japanese bombers struck American airfields on Luzon. They caught most of the planes on the ground, destroying 103 aircraft, more than half of the US air strength. [ 103 ] Two days later, further raids led to the destruction of the Cavite Naval Yard.
THE PACIFIC WAR 1941-1945. Early on the morning of December 8, 1941, the Second World War in the Pacific was begun with an amphibious attack by Imperial Japanese Army troops on the northeast coast of British Malaya.
The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II was a major theater of the Pacific War, the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.
For the past century, the U.S. Marine Corps has declared that its aircraft exist to support Marines on the ground. But during the storied battles of the Pacific war from 1941 to 1945, the Corps’ squadrons primarily supported the fleet at sea, not the Corps’ landing forces ashore.
