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 == War Theaters - US ARMED FORCES== 
 ref. Maurer Maurer (...Units, or ...Squadrons) 

 The (only) two major theaters in WWII for the Americans were: 
 EAME ,  Europe, Africa, Middle East; and 
 The Asian-Pacific. 
    
 The EAME consisted of the ETO, MTO & Northern Atlantic for command and control purposes. 

 The Asian- Pacific is more complex due to political accommodations. 
 The asian China, Burma, India (CBI) theater was a politically and militarily divided with the British  dominating its Southeast Asia Command, and the Chinese, its homeland. 

 The Americans divided the Pacific into the Army commanded Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), and the Navy controlled Pacific areas of the CPA, NPA, South Pacific. Nimitz delegated authority in SOPAC and the NPA. The POA was a command and control convention that never included the SWPA regardless of casual usage to the contray. 

 All these areas had campaigns defined by boundires in time and geography.  The Western Pacific, for an example, was a campaign. 

 Please stay to historical usage in encyclopedic editing. Maurer can be consulted on-line. Note this is US usage as it pertains to this article on primarily a US AIRCRAFT.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by [["