Talk:South West Pacific theatre of World War II

message: By way of explanation, I created this article (like the parallel Pacific Ocean Theater of World War II) because the South West Pacific Area (command) article deals with a Allied formation/organisation. That arrangement was inadequate for the many links pointing to it, because 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 08:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I support these two articles as a means of organizing links to naval engagements of the dual allied advances across the Pacific. This article contains links to Douglas MacArthur's path through New Guinea and the Philippines while the Pacific Ocean Theater contains links to Chester Nimitz's trail through the South Pacific, Gilberts, Marshalls, Marianas,  Volcano Islands, and Okinawa. This separation would better follow the respective command areas and lines of advance if the Guadalcanal campaign and subsequent Solomon Islands campaign links were moved here from the Pacific Ocean Theater article. Although the Solomons lie very close to the area boundary, they were clearly an exposed flank of MacArthur's advance. I intend to move those links if no one objects. Thewellman (talk) 02:16, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: An Explanation

message: The Kriegsmarine saw some action in the region. Of note is the tale of U-862, as well as the German auxiliary cruiser Komet and other vessels. Notwithstanding that they were almost certainly resupplied by Japan, it would be interesting to learn if any actual joint operations did occur. knoodelhed 21:38, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Germany

message: Hi. The Military history of the Philippines during World War II article is very sketchy and on its page there is a red link for an article about the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941-1945) a very important subject that is still needed as there are already articles about: the Japanese occupation of Burma; Japanese occupation of Hong Kong; Japanese occupation of Indonesia; Japanese occupation of Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak and Japanese occupation of Singapore, so this gap is glaring. Anyone with and interest or expertise in this topic is welcome to start writing it. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 11:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Needed: Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941-1945)

message: In the United States, Canada, and other countries, this is universally' called either the "Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II" or the "Southwest Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II"
Furthermore, the Supreme Commander of this Theater was General Douglas MacArthur of the United States. Thus, the American name for it must take precidence.
Let me be clear: General MacArthur was the Supreme Commander of all U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Air Corps, Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Australian Navy, Dutch Navy, Dutch Air Force, Filipino Army, and anyone else who was fighting against the Japanese Empire in this area. The participation of the Australians was completely voluntarily, since in early 1942, the Australian Parliament selected MacArthur as their supreme military commander - recognizing that Australia had no one with close to MacArthur's military education and experience: a U.S. Military Academy Graduate, a combat officer in France during World War I, a former Chief-of-Staff of the U.S. Army, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Filipino Army.
The Seventh Fleet of the U.S. Navy was under his overall command, and it acquired the nickname of "MacArthur's Navy".
For the rest of the area of the War in the Pacific, the Supreme Commander was Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz of the U.S. Navy. Admiral Nimitz was the Supreme Commander of all U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps,  U.S. Army, U.S. Army Air Corps, New Zealand Army, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Royal New Zealand Navy, Canadian, British, and anyone else who was fighting the Japanese in his area.
Their roles were the same as that of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was the Supreme Commander of all U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Air Corps, British Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Royal Marines,  Canadian, French, New Zealander, Royal Australian Air Force, Brazilian, South African, Polish, or any other forces in the European Theater (or in the Mediterranean Theater when he was in charge of that one).  DAW
98.67.111.148 (talk) 23:31, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see the issue as so critical. Many American military writers and scholars use the current spelling of this article when referring to the area. For instance, U.S. Army Brigadier General (Ret.) William T. Ruder of the 542nd Parachute Infantry Regiment writes "South West Pacific Theatre". Others use a hyphen between south and west. All sorts of combinations of hyphen, no hyphen, lower-case 'w', capital 'W', -re ending and -er ending can be found, all from reliable sources; American sources. As long as the reader can get here every time they are searching for the topic, I don't have a problem. Binksternet (talk) 02:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see this issue has come up before... I've another compliant: the geographic direction is southwest, not south west, so it should correctly be southwest.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  17:29, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Southwest Pacific Theater 

message: Guadalcanal was a Nimitz operation conducted in the South Pacific Area.  The boundaries were shifted to make it so.  Is there a reason for it to be here?  JMOprof (talk) 17:45, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Guadalcanal Campaign moved in whole to the Pacific Theater of Operations page, which is a redirect of the South Pacific Area page.  JMOprof (talk) 15:07, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There was some overlap between the two.  At times, ships and aircraft from MacArthur's command did participate in the Guadalcanal campaign, even though it was under overall command of the South Pacific Area under Nimitz. Cla68 (talk) 22:37, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know about the ships, but here's a quote from Neptune's Inferno: "Though MacArthur had been written out of the invasion plan itself, he would still be relied upon to furnish air support to Navy forces with his long-range bombers, useful for both search and attack."  It's on my "electronic page" 42.  Hyperwar has a neat quote: "When General MacArthur's area boundary was shifted westward of Guadalcanal on 1 August 1942, his pain was eased by telling him that the boundary shift was made so that COMSOPAC would be required to furnish garrison forces for the Solomons." JMOprof (talk) 01:21, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Guadalcanal here?