Pacific Theater

x Pacific Theater

June 6, 1942

Decisive US victory in the Battle of Midway Island assures that Japan will not be invading Hawaii.

December 7, 1941

Japan attacks Philippines, Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong.

August 15, 1945

Japan announces unconditional surrender (August 14 in US).

August 6, 1945

US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

August 9, 1945

US drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.

September 2, 1945

Japan signs Instrument of Surrender on battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay; MIS participation as translators; known in US as VJ Day.