Pacific Campaign

Pacific Campaign or Pacific Campaigns, usually refers to the Pacific War (1941–1945): campaigns involving Allied and Axis forces, in the Pacific and Asia during World War II.

Within the context of World War II, "Pacific Campaigns" include:

• Pacific Ocean theater of World War II – the naval and island campaigns in the Central Pacific, North Pacific and South Central Pacific, and;
• South West Pacific theater of World War II – the campaigns in and around the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, most of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and the British colonies in Borneo.

Pacific Theater of Operations is a generic term, in US military history, for all campaigns in the Pacific during World War II

Pacific Campaign may also refer to the following campaigns in other wars:

• Pacific Coast campaign (Mexican-American War) (1846–1848) United States Navy operations during the Mexican-American War
• Pacific campaign (Spanish-American War), between the United States and Spain during the Spanish–American War of 1898
• Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I (1914–1918), between the Allies and the German Empire