Command areas of the Pacific War
- Command areas of the Pacific War
The command structures of the Pacific War (or the Greater East Asia War, in Japanese terminology) varied, reflecting the different roles of various belligerent nations, and often involving different geographic scopes. These included the following:
* Purely American commands:
** Pacific Ocean Theater
** South West Pacific Theater
** South-East Asian Theater
* Other Allied commands:
** American-British-Dutch-Australian Command
** Far East Command (Soviet Union), the Soviet command during the war against Japan in 1945
* Japanese commands:
** Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese command which oversaw naval operations
** Southern Expeditionary Army Group, the Japanese army command in the South West Pacific and South East Asia
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