The World War II campaign to retake Attu and Kiska was a significant component of the operations of the Pacific theater.

Some units of the U. S. Marine Corps Raiders in the Pacific were issued a similar fighting dagger, the Marine Raider Stiletto., though the design proved less than successful when used in the type of knife combat encountered in the Pacific theater.

In the Pacific theater, the Japanese cipher machine dubbed " Purple " by the Americans, was used for highest-level Japanese diplomatic traffic.

** The US 11th Armored Division liberates the prisoners of Mauthausen concentration camp, including Simon Wiesenthal. American soldiers fighting in the Pacific War | Pacific theater listen to radio reports of Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945.

NCDUs also operated in the Pacific theater.

He loaned Group 1, under Lieutenant Choate, to Admiral Nimitz, as a way to introduce the OSS into the Pacific theater.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ( 26 January 18805 April 1964 ) was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater.

The DCAOC's were for the Pacific area ( DCA-PAC ) originally located at what was once Wheeler Air Base, in Hawaii ; and for the European theater ( DCA-EUR ) at Stutgart Army Base, Germany.

Still, Johnson's mission had a substantial impact because it led to upgrading the South Pacific theater and aided the overall war effort immensely.

Because the United States supported Great Britain's proposal that priority be given to defeating Germany before Japan, the Pacific theater had to compete for personnel and resources with the European theater.

The U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created the South Pacific theater, with Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley taking command on June 19, 1942, to direct the offensive in the Solomons.

He is credited with designing and implementing an effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II.

In August 1944, LeMay transferred to the China-Burma-India theater and directed first the XX Bomber Command in China and then the XXI Bomber Command in the Pacific.

It was during his service in the Pacific theater of operations that Haley taught himself the craft of writing stories.

During World War II, some United States soldiers in the Pacific theater used the word lollapalooza as a shibboleth to challenge unidentified persons, on the premise that Japanese people often pronounce the letter L as R ; the word is also an American colloquialism that even a foreign person fairly well-versed in American English would probably mispronounce or be unfamiliar with.

In the Pacific theater, General Douglas MacArthur used shortwave radio to keep in touch with the citizens of the Japanese-occupied Philippine Islands.

A Purple Heart recipient from the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Heard developed a special rapport with handicapped children.

* Byron Darnton, American reporter and war correspondent for the New York Times in the Pacific theater during World War II was born in Adrian.

Camp Pioneer was founded in 1936 by Cascade Pacific Council councilman Cap Monroe and a group of Eagle Scouts from a troop in Albany after an executive order was issued by President Grover Cleveland.

Pioneer is situated around Pine Ridge Lake, elevation 4, 525 ft ( 1486 m ) at the base of Mount Jefferson, near the Pacific Crest Trail and Mount Jefferson Wilderness Area.

Clackamas Community College and Pioneer Pacific College both have campuses in the city.

The private, for profit Pioneer Pacific College operates a campus, their main campus, in the city along Interstate 5 near the Boeckman Road overpass.

He was inducted into the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters Diamond Circle in 1994.

* Schrenk, Lorenz P., and Frey, Robert L. Northern Pacific Pioneer Steam Era.

The Missions are owned by the Elmore Sports Group, an organization which also owns the Inland Empire 66ers of the California League, Colorado Springs Sky Sox of the Pacific Coast League, Idaho Falls Chukars of the Pioneer League and Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest League.

* Lewis Metzler Clement: A Pioneer of the Central Pacific Railroad

In May 2007, both Kennedy and Narz were presented the Diamond Circle Award of the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters at a celebrity luncheon honoring Leonard Maltin.

The bulk of the work was done by New Zealanders, including Maori and Pacific Islanders from the New Zealand Pioneer battalion, and Bantams from the mining towns of Northern England.

With a group of notable Hollywood radio stars, including Edgar Bergen, Ralph Edwards and Jim " Fibber McGee " Jordan, Gilmore founded Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters in 1966.

It is bounded on the west by the Duwamish Waterway and Elliott Bay, beyond which lies Delridge of West Seattle ; on the east by Interstate 5, beyond which lies Beacon Hill ; on the north by S King and S Dearborn Streets, beyond which lie Pioneer Square and southwest International District of Downtown ; and on the south by the main lines of the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad, or about S Lucille Street, beyond which is Georgetown.

He also was president of Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters.

His fifth major expedition was on the schooner Pioneer in 1941 to the Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Panama, Galapagos Archipelago and Mexican Pacific Islands.

It was the third streamliner train in North America after the Union Pacific Railroad's M-10000 and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr ; the Flying Yankee was, in fact, a virtual clone of the latter, except that it dispensed with the baggage / mail space to seat 142 in three articulated cars.

In May 2007, Narz and Kennedy received the Diamond Circle Award by the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters at a celebrity luncheon honoring Leonard Maltin.

As a teenager during high school and on break from college she worked as a babysitter, stock clerk at the Village store in Pacific Palisades, grocery store checkout cashier at the Rainbow Grocery in Malibu, and waitress at the Pioneer Boulangerie restaurant in Santa Monica.

* Pioneer Courthouse, the oldest federal building in the Pacific Northwest and the second-oldest west of the Mississippi River.

Among the homes and seasonal cabins of Thetis Island are three Christian organizations: Capernwray Harbour Bible School, Pioneer Pacific Camp and Camp Columbia.

* Michio Yamaoka, ed., The Institute of Pacific Relations: Pioneer International Non-Governmental Organization in the Asia-Pacific Region ( Tokyo: Waseda University, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 1999 ).

* Pioneer East Asian Immigration to the Pacific Coast: Komagata Maru

* Lomax, Alfred L. “ Brother Jonathan: Pioneer Steamship of the Pacific Coast .” Oregon Historical Society, Vol.

In 1856, Taylor built the Pioneer Paper Mill, the first paper mill on the Pacific Coast.

The racial makeup of Pioneer was 1, 017 ( 93. 0 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 34 ( 3. 1 %) Native American, 1 ( 0. 1 %) Asian, 2 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 12 ( 1. 1 %) from other races, and 28 ( 2. 6 %) from two or more races.