Japanese submarine scouting lines that were supposed to be in place along the Hawaiian Islands were not completed on time, consequently the Japanese were unable to detect the American carriers. 0000001443 00000 n So, while the US had an unusually long supply line between its west coast and frontline areas, leaving it vulnerable to submarine attack, Japan used its submarines primarily for long-range reconnaissance and only occasionally attacked US supply lines. An Allied task force under the command of Admiral Frank Fletcher, with the carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown, was assembled to stop the Japanese advance. Contrarily, the Americans, most notably, U.S. Navy admiral John S. McCain Sr., hoped to use their numerical advantage at Guadalcanal to defeat large numbers of Japanese forces there and progressively drain Japanese man-power. In Japan, the government and nationalists viewed these embargos as acts of aggression; imported oil made up about 80% of domestic consumption, without which Japan's economy, let alone its military, would grind to a halt. A great majority of the Chinese forces were able to retreat out of the area, and later come back to attack Japanese positions at the Battle of West Hunan. [232] A large number of deaths were caused directly by Japanese war crimes. %PDF-1.4 %���� The two base games, War in the East 2nd ed. "United States Dept. Japan used the name Greater East Asia War (大東亜戦争, Dai Tō-A Sensō), as chosen by a cabinet decision on 10 December 1941, to refer to both the war with the Western Allies and the ongoing war in China. These islands provided bases for the US Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces to attack targets throughout the Philippines and the South China Sea. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937 provoked full-scale war between China and Japan. In August 1937, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best army to fight about 300,000 Japanese troops in Shanghai, but, after three months of fighting, Shanghai fell. Because of this, after the surrender in 1945, the stance of the United States was that Thailand should be treated as a puppet of Japan and be considered an occupied nation rather than as an ally. [222] The formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on 2 September 1945, on the battleship USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay. The early period of the war was divided into two operational phases. His small force of submarines sank more Japanese ships in the first weeks of the war than the entire British and US navies together, an exploit which earned him the nickname "Ship-a-day Helfrich". The Japanese established a major base in the Australian Territory of New Guinea beginning with the capture of Rabaul on 23 January 1942. 0000013215 00000 n For the US military area of operations, see, Map showing the main areas of the conflict and Allied landings in the Pacific, 1942–1945, States and territories in the sphere of influence of the, Allied offensives on New Guinea and up the Solomons, Invasion of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, Japanese counteroffensives in China, 1944, Beginning of the end in the Pacific, 1944, Landings in the Japanese home islands (1945), "For fifty-three months, beginning in July 1937, China stood alone, single-handedly fighting an undeclared war against Japan. [76] In fact, the Imperial GHQ noted, should acceptable negotiations be reached with the Americans, the attacks were to be canceled—even if the order to attack had already been given. On 9 January 1945 General Krueger's Sixth Army landed its first units on the south shore of Lingayen Gulf on the western coast of Luzon. This is a group for those interested in an SPI wargame called War in the PACIFIC. [56] The Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back, capturing the capital Nanjing in December 1937 and conducted the Nanjing Massacre. By November these plans were essentially complete, and were modified only slightly over the next month. United Nations, Economic and Social Council, Report of the Working Group for Asia and the Far East, Supp. 0000000938 00000 n [216] At the time Soviet participation was seen as crucial to tie down the large number Japanese forces in Manchuria and Korea, keeping them from being transferred to the Home Islands to mount a defense to an invasion. In the first months of 1944, the Chinese and American troops of the Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC), commanded by the American Joseph Stilwell, began extending the Ledo Road from India into northern Burma, while the XV Corps began an advance along the coast in Arakan Province. [187] The Japanese also went to great lengths to construct large underground chambers, some as much as five stories deep to serve as storage and hospital areas with thick walls and ceilings made of reinforced concrete. It was also hoped that this penetration of the Japanese inner defense zone, which was a little more than 1,250 miles (2,010 km) from Tokyo, might force the Japanese fleet out for a decisive engagement. This headquarters controlled the bulk of the Japanese Army formations which opposed the Western Allies in the Pacific and South East Asia. Japan was not any closer to defeating China after this operation, and the constant defeats the Japanese suffered in the Pacific meant that Japan never got the time and resources needed to achieve final victory over China. This list of SPI games includes games published by Simulations Publications, Inc. as separate titles, ... War in the West (1976) War in the Pacific (1978) War of the Ring (1977) Wellington's Victory: Battle of Waterloo (1976) Wilson's Creek (S&T #80, 1980) Winter War (S&T #33, 1972) Allied naval and air forces, centered on the US 7th Fleet under Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, the Australian First Tactical Air Force and the US Thirteenth Air Force also played important roles in the campaign. Around 1,700 Japanese troops died, out of a total 10,000 who fell ill when Japanese biological weapons infected their own forces. In Allied countries during the war, the "Pacific War" was not usually distinguished from World War II in general, or was known simply as the War against Japan.In the United States, the term Pacific Theater was widely used, although this was a misnomer in relation to the Allied campaign in Burma, the war in China and other activities within the South-East Asian Theater. Throughout the Philippines, Filipino guerrillas aided US forces to find and dispatch the holdouts. This helped the Allies to improve the techniques of amphibious landings, learning from their mistakes and implementing changes such as thorough pre-emptive bombings and bombardment, more careful planning regarding tides and landing craft schedules, and better overall coordination. The Allies were preparing to make amphibious landings in Malaya when word of the Japanese surrender arrived. 1-2 million deaths occurred in French Indochina during the Japanese occupation, mostly due to the 1945 Vietnamese Famine. [187], The American operation ("Operation Detachment") to capture the island involved three Marine divisions of the V Amphibious Corps, a total of 70,647 troops,[189] under the command of Holland Smith. 2007. p. 4. With their position in the Solomons disintegrating, the Japanese modified the Z Plan by eliminating the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago as vital areas to be defended. The battle did not turn out as the Japanese had hoped. Combined ground, air, anti-air, and naval personnel. Its objective was to strike airfields on the chain of islands between Formosa and Okinawa, to prevent the Japanese reinforcing the defenses of Okinawa from that direction. 0000014817 00000 n Then followed the invasion and occupation of Panay, Cebu, Negros and several islands in the Sulu Archipelago. Following the Japanese Invasion of Salamaua–Lae in March, 1943, Cartwheel began with the Salamaua–Lae campaign in Northern New Guinea in April, 1943, which was followed in June to October by the New Georgia campaign, in which the Allies used the Landings on Rendova, Drive on Munda Point and Battle of Munda Point to secure a secretly constructed Japanese airfield at Munda and the rest of New Georgia Islands group. British Empire POWs are given a death rate of 25%. A moderate sized hole in the shrink wrap on the fr The meeting was also known as the Cairo Conference and concluded with the Cairo Declaration. MacArthur moved his headquarters to Melbourne in March 1942 and American troops began massing in Australia. In preparation for the war against the United States, which would be decided at sea and in the air, Japan increased its naval budget as well as putting large formations of the Army and its attached air force under navy command. Japan's strategic bombing campaigns devastated Chinese cities extensively, killing 260,000–350,934 non-combatants. The attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by carrier-based aircraft of the Combined Fleet was intended to give the Japanese time to complete a perimeter. [215], In February 1945 during the Yalta Conference the Soviet Union had agreed to enter the war against Japan 90 days after the surrender of Germany. 0000005004 00000 n US Navy Seabees quickly made the field operational for use for American aircraft. 1,500 colonial and 900 Dutch soldiers were killed in action. Shipped with USPS Retail Ground. After fanatic Japanese resistance, the Marines captured Aslito airfield in the south on 18 June. Basing in Australia placed boats under Japanese aerial threat while en route to patrol areas, reducing their effectiveness, and Nimitz relied on submarines for close surveillance of enemy bases. The number of American submarines patrols (and sinkings) rose steeply: 350 patrols (180 ships sunk) in 1942, 350 (335) in 1943, and 520 (603) in 1944. Representatives from India and the Philippines were later added. Four days after Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States, drawing the country into a two-theater war. The war culminated in massive Allied air raids over Japan, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, accompanied by the Soviet Union's declaration of war and invasion of Manchuria and other territories on 9 August 1945, causing the Japanese to announce an intent to surrender on 15 August 1945. War in Europe is a compendium of three modules, War in the East 2nd ed., War in the West, and War in Europe. Strength of the US Military in Asia and the Pacific as of war's end: Army: 1,770,036. 2,129 European French and 2,100 Indochinese colonial troops were killed, while 12,000 French and 3,000 colonial troops were kept as prisoners. Military Affairs, Vol. [171] Many of these survivors were subsequently lost when Taihō and Shōkaku were sunk by American submarine attacks. Hara, Tameichi, with Fred Saito and Roger Pineau. The first major Japanese counterattack occurred on 6 and 7 April, in the form of attacks by kamikaze aircraft and a naval operation, called Ten-Go. [96] Cooperation between the Chinese Nationalists and the Communists had waned from its zenith at the Battle of Wuhan, and the relationship between the two had gone sour as both attempted to expand their areas of operation in occupied territories. [138] In reality, only 42 American submarines were sunk in the Pacific due to hostile action, with 10 others lost in accidents or as the result of friendly fire. There is a Campaign scenario, and 5 Battle scenarios. 0000002631 00000 n The result was later dubbed the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. [213] The necessity of the atomic bombings has long been debated, with detractors claiming that a naval blockade and incendiary bombing campaign had already made invasion, hence the atomic bomb, unnecessary. For the rest of February, the Americans pushed north, and by 1 March, had taken two-thirds of the island. However, the problem of Allied forces surrounded in the Philippines, during the early part of 1942, led to diversion of boats to "guerrilla submarine" missions. President Franklin Roosevelt ordered General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines to formulate a Pacific defence plan with Australia in March 1942. The British and Indian Fourteenth Army was formed to face the Japanese in Burma. Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power. After Japanese victories in Operation Ichi-Go, Japan was losing the battle in Burma and facing constant attacks from Chinese Nationalist forces and Communist guerrillas in the countryside. SPI Spare Parts. <<67C2FDCEEEABE84A87D1B44AE7E29DDB>]>> Many were lost in numerous engagements with the Allied air forces based at Henderson Field as well as carrier-based aircraft. Through strategic and tactical surprise, the Japanese would knock out Midway's air strength and soften it for a landing by 5,000 troops. However these were not operational commands. [202] Japanese casualties were approximately 110,000 killed, and 7,400 were taken prisoner. War in the Pacific -WIP SPI 1978 WWII: ETO-WW2; SPI Decision games published a DOS application computer War in Europe which inherently includes War in the East 2nd edition, War in the West. [106] Concurrently, the Doolittle Raid occurred in April 1942, where 16 bombers took off from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, 600 miles (970 km) from Japan. [248] Dutch naval losses in the Pacific numbered 14 major warships and 14 minor ones totaling some 40,427 tons: 2 cruisers (Java and De Ruyter), 7 destroyers (Evertsen, Kortenaer, Piet Hein, Witte de With, Banckert, Van Nes, and Van Ghent), 5 submarines (K XVIII, K XVII, K XIII, K X, and K VII), 7 minelayers (Prins van Oranje, Pro Patria, Bangkalan, Rigel, Soemenep, Krakatau, and Gouden Leeuw, most of which were scuttled), and 7 minesweepers (A, B, D, C, Pieter de Bitter, Eland Dubois, and Jan van Amstel). [109] During a series of meetings held from 2–5 April, the Naval General Staff and representatives of the Combined Fleet reached a compromise. 0000013613 00000 n              Solomon Islands: 63,200, 25,000, (88,200) Figure is for Japanese aircraft only. Although fierce fighting continued on Leyte for months, the US Army was in control. The Japanese exploited this lack of unity to press ahead in their offensives. McLynn, The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–1945, pg. In June 1938, Japan deployed about 350,000 troops to invade Wuhan and captured it in October. [190] The Japanese losses totaled well over 20,000 men killed, with only 1,083 prisoners were taken. 0000003125 00000 n War In The Pacific Mint Original Wrap SPI. Names for the war. Without inhibitions of any kind, I make it clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom. [128] During this campaign, the Imperial Japanese Army left behind a trail of devastation and also engaged in biological warfare, spreading cholera, typhoid, plague and dysentery pathogens.              Andaman & Nicobar Islands: 900, 1,500, (2,400) Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization.              Burma (inc. India): 163,000, 1,500, (164,500) The German and the Italian navies operated submarines and raiding ships in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, notably the Monsun Gruppe. [149][150][full citation needed] The Japanese losses, 130 submarines in all,[151] were higher. Not only was the attack on Port Moresby halted, which constituted the first strategic Japanese setback of the war, but all three carriers that were committed to the battle would now be unavailable for the operation against Midway. [188] The Japanese were determined to make the Americans pay a high price for Iwo Jima and were prepared to defend it to the death. The clash was the largest carrier battle in history. Yamamoto's complex plan had no provision for intervention by the American fleet before the Japanese had expected them. Slim feared that the Japanese would defend Rangoon house-to-house during the monsoon, which would commit his army to prolonged action with disastrously inadequate supplies, and in March he had asked that a plan to capture Rangoon by an amphibious force, Operation Dracula, which had been abandoned earlier, be reinstated. In the southern Philippines, where key ports and airfields had already been seized by the Japanese, the remaining American-Filipino forces surrendered on 9 May.              Siberia: 52,300, 400, (52,700) Concurrently, the Chinese managed to repel a Japanese offensive in Henan and Hubei. The game enables players to recreate the entire course of the war with the US, from the opening Japanese attack on 7 December, 1941 to the climatic Allied assaults in the closing days of 1945. The US Sixth Army continued its advance from the east, while the Japanese rushed reinforcements to the Ormoc Bay area on the western side of the island. Okinawa, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands, was located some 340 miles (550 km) from the island of Kyushu. However, as Imperial Japan actually surrendered on 15 August, this day became known in the English-speaking countries as V-J Day (Victory in Japan).              Thailand: 6,900, 100, (7,000) Neither total includes the considerable number of irregular guerrilla fighters sworn to regional warlords who fought the Japanese.              Philippines: 377,500, 121,100, (498,600) The Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communists suspended their civil war in order to form a nominal alliance against Japan, and the Soviet Union quickly lent support by providing large amount of materiel to Chinese troops. [71] Japan's key objective during the initial part of the conflict was to seize economic resources in the Dutch East Indies and Malaya which offered Japan a way to escape the effects of the Allied embargo. [251], Similar to the Dutch, the 65,000-strong French colonial army in French Indochina (16,500 European French and 48,500 colonial) disintegrated at the end of the Japanese invasion. Consequently, the Japanese retained their remaining strength in preparation for what they hoped would be a decisive battle. On 8 June 1942, two Japanese submarines briefly shelled Sydney's eastern suburbs and the city of Newcastle.[104]. The Italians had access to concession territory naval bases in China which they utilized (and which was later ceded to collaborationist China by the Italian Social Republic in late 1943). Although the advance in Arakan had been halted to release troops and aircraft for the Battle of Imphal, the Americans and Chinese had continued to advance in northern Burma, aided by the Chindits operating against the Japanese lines of communication. If the Americans attacked the Marianas, they would be attacked by land-based planes in the vicinity. Opposition to war in the US vanished after the attack.              Total: 1,647,200, 473,800, (2,121,000), The IJN lost over 341 warships, including 11 battleships, 25 aircraft carriers, 39 cruisers, 135 destroyers, and 131 submarines, almost entirely in action against the United States Navy. [195] However, there was little opposition at the beaches as the Japanese had decided to meet the Americans farther inland out of range of naval gunfire. The Japanese leadership was aware that a total military victory in a traditional sense against the US was impossible; the alternative would be negotiating for peace after their initial victories, which would recognize Japanese hegemony in Asia. US and Filipino forces resisted in the Philippines until 9 May 1942, when more than 80,000 soldiers were ordered to surrender. On 12 March 1944, the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed the occupation of the Northern Marianas, specifically the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. Faced with a choice between economic collapse and withdrawal from its recent conquests (with its attendant loss of face), the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (GHQ) began planning for a war with the Western powers in April or May 1941. [161], In February 1944, the US Navy's fast carrier task force, during Operation Hailstone, attacked the major naval base of Truk. [240] 6 warships of the Royal Australian Navy totaling 29,391 tons were sunk: 3 cruisers (Canberra, Perth, and Sydney), 2 destroyers (Vampire and Voyager), and 3 corvettes (Armidale, Geelong, and Wallaroo, the latter two in accidents). In torrential rains and over difficult terrain, the US advance continued across Leyte and the neighboring island of Samar to the north. The Borneo campaign of 1945 was the last major campaign in the South West Pacific Area. A series of withdrawal actions brought his troops safely into Bataan, while the Japanese entered Manila unopposed on 2 January 1942. 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