The Pacific War
| Name | Date | Start Date |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | 7 Dec 1941 | 19411207 |
| Invasion of the Philippine Islands | 7 Dec 1941 - 5 May 1942 | 19411207 |
| Invasion of Guam | 8 Dec 1941 - 10 Dec 1941 | 19411208 |
| Invasion of Malaya and Singapore | 8 Dec 1941 - 15 Feb 1942 | 19411208 |
| Battle of Wake Island | 11 Dec 1941 - 23 Dec 1941 | 19411211 |
| Dutch East Indies Campaign, Borneo | 15 Dec 1941 - 1 Apr 1942 | 19411215 |
| Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | 16 Dec 1941 - 7 Apr 1945 | 19411216 |
| Dutch East Indies Campaign, Celebes and Moluccas | 11 Jan 1942 - 31 Jul 1942 | 19420111 |
| New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 1, Bismarck Islands | 20 Jan 1942 - 24 Jan 1942 | 19420120 |
| Dutch East Indies Campaign, Java | 4 Feb 1942 - 31 Mar 1942 | 19420204 |
| Dutch East Indies Campaign, Sumatra | 13 Feb 1942 - 28 Mar 1942 | 19420213 |
| Attack on Darwin | 19 Feb 1942 | 19420219 |
| Action off Bougainville | 20 Feb 1942 | 19420220 |
| New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | 8 Mar 1942 - 4 Mar 1943 | 19420308 |
| Doolittle Raid | 18 Apr 1942 | 19420418 |
| Battle of Coral Sea | 7 May 1942 - 8 May 1942 | 19420507 |
| Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands | 4 Jun 1942 - 7 Jun 1942 | 19420604 |
| Guadalcanal Campaign | 7 Aug 1942 - 9 Feb 1943 | 19420807 |
| Makin Island Raid | 17 Aug 1942 - 18 Aug 1942 | 19420817 |
| Solomon Islands Campaign | 23 Aug 1942 - 25 Dec 1943 | 19420823 |
| Aleutian Islands Campaign | 26 Mar 1943 - 16 Aug 1943 | 19430326 |
| New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 3 | 30 Sep 1943 - 23 May 1945 | 19430930 |
| Gilbert Islands Campaign | 13 Nov 1943 - 24 Nov 1943 | 19431113 |
| Marshall Islands Campaign | 29 Jan 1944 - 21 Feb 1944 | 19440129 |
| Attack on Truk | 16 Feb 1944 - 18 Feb 1944 | 19440216 |
| Mariana Islands Campaign and the Great Turkey Shoot | 13 Jun 1944 - 10 Aug 1944 | 19440613 |
| Palau Islands and Ulithi Islands Campaigns | 15 Sep 1944 - 1 Dec 1944 | 19440915 |
| Battle of Morotai | 15 Sep 1944 - 14 Jan 1945 | 19440915 |
| Philippines Campaign, Phase 1, the Leyte Campaign | 22 Oct 1944 - 21 Dec 1944 | 19441022 |
| Philippines Campaign, Phase 2 | 12 Dec 1944 - 15 Aug 1945 | 19441212 |
| Typhoon Cobra | 18 Dec 1944 | 19441218 |
| Raid into the South China Sea | 10 Jan 1945 - 20 Jan 1945 | 19450110 |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | 19 Feb 1945 - 26 Mar 1945 | 19450219 |
| Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | 19 Feb 1945 - 10 Aug 1945 | 19450219 |
| Okinawa Campaign | 1 Apr 1945 - 21 Jun 1945 | 19450401 |
| Borneo Campaign | 11 Apr 1945 - 15 Aug 1945 | 19450411 |
| Typhoon Connie | 5 Jun 1945 | 19450605 |
| Preparations for Invasion of Japan | 14 Jul 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 | 19450714 |
| Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 | 19450806 |
| Japan's Surrender | 14 Aug 1945 - 2 Sep 1945 | 19450814 |
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