Talk:Pacific Ocean theater of World War II

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By way of explanation, I created this article (like the parallel South West Pacific Theatre of World War II) because the Pacific Ocean Areas (command) article deals with a Allied formation/organisation. That arrangement was inadequate for the many links pointing to it, beacuse it didn't deal with the the Japanese/Axis side of the story. This article is intended to deal with the various campaigns and battles, including the Axis side of them. Grant65 | Talk 08:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

I see where you are coming from but the current setup is problematic -- it's based only on what USA considered to be "Pacific Ocean theater" which for example does not include Hawaii.

Probably the page should just redirect to Pacific War.

Eleland 18:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

The Pacific Ocean Areas did include Hawaii; I'm not sure what you mean there. Yes, its what the Allies considered to be the Pacific Ocean theater, but the Japanese command structure was similar, with Yamamoto and the IJN being Nimitz's direct opponent. Whereas Japanese forces in Southern Asia were controlled by the Japanese Army's Southern Expeditionary Army, under Hisaichi Terauchi, in Saigon. Terauchi was the direct opponent of both MacArthur (SW Pacific) and Mountbatten (SE Asia). Grant | Talk 02:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I misread a diagram there.

The other reason I thought the Pacific Ocean Areas did not include Hawaii is that Pearl Harbour isn't counted in the "Pacific Ocean Theater", which doesn't make very much sense to me.

I think I get the idea, though. It's the Pacific Ocean itself and the Pacific islands, as opposed to Pacific ocean countries like China. OK, this makes sense.

However it still needs to include Pearl, and start in 1941, because if the Pearl Harbour attack didn't happen in the Pacific Ocean Theatre of WW2 then where did it happen?

Eleland 16:53, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

The reason why I excluded Pearl Harbor is that it came before the formation of the Allied POA command. Having said that, we are talking about a geographical entity here, so maybe it should be included. Grant | Talk 03:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Renovating article

Instead of merging this article into the Pacific War, I recommend this article be altered to "Central Pacific Theater" to reference the operations of the U.S. Navy in 1943 and onwards. The island-hopping campaign was the original goal of American Pacific Strategy, and as such should have a separate article.UNC Samurai (talk) 18:31, 6 December 2007 (UTC)