User 2600 1002 B001 F56 70D2 24B1 BC19 4566 2600 1002 B001 F56 70D2 24B1 BC19 4566 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