* 1943 – Japanese forces evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.

Pointing to the overwhelming dominance of the aircraft carrier in the Pacific Theater, they asked the United States Congress to fund a large fleet of " supercarriers " and their supporting battle groups, beginning with the USS United States ( CVA-58 ).

* 1942 – World War II: U. S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.

The film, although set during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater during World War II, was not a war film, but instead focused on the impact of command.

The latex that had been used in these early forms of incendiary devices became logistically impossible to use during the Pacific Theater of Operations, since natural rubber was almost impossible to obtain.

Further use of napalm by American forces occurred in the Pacific Theater of Operations, where in 1944 and 1945, napalm was used as a tactical weapon against Japanese bunkers, pillboxes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on Saipan, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese troops refused to surrender.

One month after the war was won in the Pacific Theater of Operations, on September 20, 1945, President Truman signed Executive Order 9621, which came into effect as of October 1, 1945.

* 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship in Tokyo Bay.

FLINTLOCK became the real catalyst for the UDT training program in the Pacific Theater.

On a personal level, Patton was disappointed by the Army's refusal to give him a combat command in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater.

This was the first Allied airborne assault in the Pacific Theater.

Petruchio ( Kevin Black ) and Kate ( Emily Jordan ) from a Pacific Repertory Theatre | Carmel Shakespeare Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew at the outdoor Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California | Carmel, CA., October 2003.

He is also shown serving in both the European Theater and Pacific Theater, as well as witnessing many historical events and personally encountering Adolf Hitler.

The 81st received equipment, personnel and trained here before shipping out to the Pacific Theater of Operations ( PTO )

During World War II, the resort was closed in 1942 and converted to a convalescent hospital for the U. S. Navy ( Pacific Theater ), which was operational in July 1943.

The host unit at Clovis AAF was the 16th Bombardment Wing, a training unit for Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber crews for Europe, and later becoming a major training / conversion base for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers heading to the Pacific Theater.

From 1942 until 1946, the base served as a repair depot for damaged aircraft returning from the Pacific Theater.

After a stint with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater and a short period of vagrancy involving hitchhiking, freight hopping, picking fruit, logging in the Pacific Northwest ( Preston Sturges conceived the film Sullivan's Travels after hearing Garfield tell of his hobo adventures ) Garfield made his Broadway debut in 1932, in a play called Lost Boy.

It is unknown if he actually ever served in Europe, considering the 77th served in the Pacific Theater.

** Pacific Theater

He served in the 1st Division during World War I and became the Chief of Staff of United States Army Forces in the Pacific Theater of Operations by the end of World War II.

** Pacific Theater

Used to great effect in anti-aircraft projectiles, proximity fuses were fielded in both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operations ; they were particularly useful against V-1 flying bombs and kamikaze planes.

In January 2002, over 1, 200 soldiers from the United States Special Operations Command Pacific ( SOCPAC ) deployed to the Philippines to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ) in their push to uproot terrorist forces on the island of Basilan.

In January 2002, 1, 200 members of United States Special Operations Command, Pacific ( SOCPAC ) were deployed to the Philippines to assist the Armed Forces of the Philippines ( AFP ) in uprooting al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf.

The Maritime Operations Element consists of four Pacific class patrol boats and two Balikpapan class landing craft.

It has a strength of around 25, 988 troops divided between the Pacific Operations and the Amazon Operations General Commands and the Coast Guard.

Only the Secretary of Defense ( or the President ) can authorize the transfer of operational control of forces between the three Military Departments ( Departments of the Army, Navy & Air Force ) and the currently nine Combatant Commands ( Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, Transportation Command ), and between the Combatant Commands.

Operations were based out of the naval base at San Blas and included not only the establishment and supply of missions in California, but a series of exploration expeditions to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

The real USS Knoxville ( PF-64 ) served in the European Theatre of Operations, but never in the Pacific.

* 1992-1994 — serves as the Vice-President of Intercontinental Operations, focusing on expansion into Asia, the Pacific, and South America

* Pacific Theater of Operations

A map of the US Pacific Theater of Operations showing its component areas and its relationship to South East Asia Command.

The Pacific Theater of Operations is the area of operations of U. S. forces during the Pacific War of 1941-45.

Because of the complementary roles of the United States Army and the United States Navy in conducting war in the Pacific theater, there was no single Allied or U. S. commander ( comparable to Eisenhower in the European Theater of Operations ) in the Pacific.

* Australian War Memorial, Operations against German Pacific territories, 6 August 1914 – 6 November 1914.

Rejected by the U. S. Army as a photographer because of poor eyesight, Rosenthal joined the Associated Press ( AP ) and followed the U. S. Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the war.

The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period — for example, from 19: 00 to 22: 00 ( Central and Mountain Time ) or 20: 00 to 23: 00 ( Eastern and Pacific Time ) ( 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. or 8 p. m. to 11 p. m .).

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The term " Pacific Northwest " should not be confused with the Northwest Territory ( also known as the Great Northwest, a historic term in the United States ) or the Northwest Territories of Canada.

The term cargo cult, as an idiom, originally referred to aboriginal religions which grew up in the South Pacific after World War II.

The lack of heavy rainfall arises from high atmospheric stability caused, in term, by the combination of cool waters from semi-permanent coastal upwelling and the presence of the cold Humboldt Current ; and warm air aloft associated with the South Pacific anticyclone.

The Polynesian term kākā and its variant ʻāʻā were the generic South Pacific terms for Psittacidae.

While many writers focused primarily upon American expansionism, be it into Mexico or across the Pacific, others saw the term as a call to example.

In the eastern half of the north Pacific ocean and north Indian ocean, the older subtropical cyclone definition term is still used, which requires a weak circulation forming underneath a mid to upper-tropospheric low which has cut off from the main belt of the westerlies during the cold season ( winter ).

Basic knowledge of climate can be used within shorter term weather forecasting using analog techniques such as the El Niño – Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ), the Madden-Julian Oscillation ( MJO ), the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO ), the Northern Annualar Mode ( NAM ), the Arctic oscillation ( AO ), the Northern Pacific ( NP ) Index, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation ( PDO ), and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation ( IPO ).

The term was in common usage in the mid-19th century and came to refer not just to the corduroy roads themselves, but to logging camps and mills all along the Pacific Coast.

In Guam and Northern Mariana Islands, the term " Mestizo " was borrowed from the American colonies and was formerly used to identify people of mixed Pacific Islander and Spanish ancestry ; however, as the United States gained control of these islands after the Spanish-American War in 1898, the term " Multiracial " replaced " Mestizo ".

The states shown in dark red are included in the term West Coast or Pacific Coast.

More specifically, the term refers to an area defined on the east by the Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The West can be divided into the Pacific States ; Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, with the term West Coast usually restricted to just California, Oregon, and Washington, and the Mountain States, always Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

The anthropologist Leslie Spier used the term " prophet dances " to describe this kind of ritual during his studies of the Pacific Northwest tribes.

At the next federal election on August 1872, he was defeated by Louis-Amable Jetté while seeking a second term in Montreal East in the face of the Pacific Scandal.

" Primitive art " is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically " primitive " by Western academia, such as Native American, subsaharan African or Pacific Island art ( see Tribal art ).

The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theater of Operations.

Over the term of the 1999-2008 Labour government, social statistics for Maori and Pacific islanders did generally improve, however the statistics for white New Zealanders showed a greater improvement, resulting in the ' gaps ' actually increasing.

In Australia the term South Sea Islander was used in the past to describe Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the Western Pacific.

The term may still be used poetically or in certain proper nouns, such as Cathay Pacific Airways or Cathay Hotel.