Pacific War - Command Areas

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