Command Areas
The command structures of the Pacific War varied, reflecting the different roles of various belligerent nations, and often involving different geographic scopes. These included the following:
- American commands:
- Pacific Ocean Areas
- South West Pacific Area
- British and Allied commands:
- GHQ India, commanding the British Army in India
- Eastern Fleet
- American-British-Dutch-Australian Command
- South East Asia Command
- Far East Command (Soviet Union), the Soviet command during the war against Japan in 1945
- Japanese commands:
- Japanese Combined Fleet, the Japanese command which oversaw naval operations
- Southern Expeditionary Army Group, the Japanese army command in the South West Pacific and South East Asia
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