This map indicates the tactical position in the Pacific in August 1942 when the Allied counter offensive was...

The War against Japan: Allied Operations in the Pacific

SUCCESSFUL ALLIED AIR ATTACKS ON JAPANESE SUPPLIES AND SHIPPING IN THE PACIFIC

Scene of devastation in the town of Cassino when it fell to the Allied attack, Italy, World War II - Photogr...

This map of the Pacific shows the "pincers" strength of the United States from the Aleutian Islands in the n...

This Japanese Zero was brought down in the United States attack on Peleliu Island, in the Palau Group, east ...

LEFT: Two pictures taken during one of the great Allied raids on Rabaul in November, when 26 Japanese ships ...

August 29, 1914. A FINGER IN THE PIE. The Jap: "Now for a Japanese Plum!" At this period Japan was aiding wo...

Japs move fast to forestall allied offensive in China. Charles Owens, Los Angeles Times. Los Angel...

British gun captured by the Japanese when they took Singapore and which was turned against the Allies in the...

TRAINING SHIPS OF THE JAPANESE NAVY VISITING WELLINGTON THIS WEEK IN THE COURSE OF A PACIFIC CRUISE

NAVAL WARFARE IN THE PACIFIC: HEAVY ALLIED LOSSES IN BATTLES OFF JAVA AND SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN RAIDS ON JAPAN...

Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces :The Japanese with this message has ceased resistance. He should be treate...

Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces :The Japanese with this message has ceased resistance. He should be treate...

This map of the South-ivest Pacific combat zone shows how United Nations offensives are preparing the ' way ...

ALLIED FORCES IN SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC AREA MARSHALLED UNDER GENERAL MACARTHUR TO DELIVER COUNTERBLOW TO JAPANES

[General offensive of the allied armies against Tʻien-chin -- Co. 8, Reg. II Infantry crashing into Tʻien-chin through the south inside gate]

An, Allied ship sel on fire in the course, of a Japanese air raid on Darwin (Evening Post, 18 August 1942)

PREPARING TO BOMBARD PORT ARTHUR: JAPANESE ARTILLERY ENTRENCHING THEMSELVES IN A FAVOURABLE POSITION ON THE ...

LEFT: Lieutenant-General George C. Kenny (left), commander of the Allied Air Forces in the South-west Pacifi...

One of the guns of 29 Battery of 6 NZ Field Regiment in position in Sora area, Italy, World War II - Photogr...

Captured film showing Allied troops being marshalled by the Germans in North Africa during World War II

A new chart of the Pacific Ocean : exhibiting the western coast of America, from Cape Horn to Beerings Strait, the eastern shores of Asia including Japan, China and Australia and all the numerous islands and known dangers situated in Polynesia and Australasia / correctly drawn and regulated according to the most approved and modern surveys and astronomical observations by J.W. Norie