Japan campaign
| Japan campaign | |||||||
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| Part of Pacific War | |||||||
 Task Force 38, of the U.S. Third Fleet maneuvering off the coast of Japan, 17 August 1945, two days after Japan agreed to surrender. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States  United Kingdom  Canada  New Zealand  Australia  Soviet Union (from August 1945) |
 Japan | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Franklin D. Roosevelt # Harry S. Truman Douglas MacArthur William Halsey Jr. Henry H. Arnold Chester W. Nimitz Bernard Rawlings Aleksandr Vasilevsky |
Hirohito   Hideki Tojo Shunroku Hata Kiichiro Higuchi Tadamichi Kuribayashi † Mitsuru Ushijima † Matome Ugaki † Seiichi Itō † | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Relatively minor damages |
193,300 soldiers dead (all causes)[3] Surrendered and captured following blockade and bombings: 4,335,000 soldiers[4] 9,435 artillery pieces 5,286 tanks 731 other AFVs 12,682 aircraft (mostly kamikazes)[5] | ||||||
The Japan campaign was conducted by Allied nations during the Pacific War. A part of World War II, it consisted of the Allies, primarily the United States, British Empire and its commonwealths against the Japanese Empire. It lasted from 1942 to 1945 with an Allied victory and Japan's defeat.
Operations
[change | change source]Air strikes
[change | change source]Major battles
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ The date of Double Strike, which is the beginning of Mainland Air Strike.
- ↑ The Archipelago Landing Operation is over.
- ↑ "Figures were compiled by the Relief Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in March 1964". Australia-Japan Research Project. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-10.. Combined death tolls of "Japan proper" (103,900) and Okinawa (89,400).
- ↑ Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1964. Archived 2016-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Final report: progress of demobilization of the Japanese Armed Forces, 30 December 1946 Part 2, Supreme Command of the Allied Powers, p. 49, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 26 December 2015. Artillery is defined as being at least over 80 mm in caliber.
