Question: Where was the Asia-Pacific War which 1st Armoured Division was retained in Australia following the outbreak of fought 

Context articles: 68th Armoured Regiment (India)
Pacific War
3rd Armoured Division (Australia)
Zygmunt Aleksander Wnęk
136th Armoured Division Centauro II
131st Armoured Division Centauro
1st Armoured Division (Australia)
31st Indian Armoured Division
Battle of Norfolk
1st Armoured Regiment (Poland)

68th Armoured Regiment is an armoured regiment which is part of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army.
 The regiment was raised on 1 March 1968 by Lt Col R.N. Thumby at Ahmednagar.
 The regiment was raised with Vijayanta tanks.
 It was raised with Ahir, Gujjar, Maratha and Rajput troops from the artillery, engineers and infantry including some troops from the 66th Armoured Regiment.
 The regiment was made part of the order of battle of the 1st Armoured Division on 30 March 1970.
 The regiment could not participate in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 as the armoured division was not committed to battle.
 In 1985, it was converted to T-72 tanks and served during Operation Trident, Operation Rakshak and Operation Parakram in 2000 - 2001.
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and East Asia.
 It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China (including the 1945 Soviet–Japanese conflict).
The Australian 3rd Armoured Division was an armoured unit of the Australian Army that was established on 15 November 1942 by redesignating the 1st Motor Division (which was previously the 1st Cavalry Division).
 As an armoured division the 3rd Armoured was equipped with M3 Grant medium tanks and M3 Stuart light tanks.
 The Division's 3rd Motor Brigade was gradually disbanded between March to August 1943 and the 3rd Armoured Division was disbanded in Queensland on 19 October 1943 as a result of manpower shortages in the Australian Army.
Zygmunt Aleksander Wnęk (1918–1944) was a Polish soldier and military officer.
 During World War II he served in the rank of 2nd Lieutenant ("podporucznik") on the Western Front with the 1st Armoured Regiment of the 1st Armoured Division.
 Killed in action during the Battle of Falaise, he was posthumously awarded the Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military decoration.
The 136th Armoured Division Centauro II was an Armoured Division of the Italian Army during World War II.
 The division had a number of different titles before settling on 136th Armoured Division Centauro II.
 It was formed in 1942 and started as the 1 Blackshirt Armoured Division M was re designated 136th Armoured Division M then 136th Legionary Armoured Division Centauro and finally "Centauro II".
 In September 1943 it was in training near Rome and fought the Germans as part of the Corpo d'Armata Motocorazzato before surrendering.
The 131st Armoured Division "Centauro" (in Italian: "131ª Divisione Corazzata "Centauro"" ) was an armoured division of the Italian Army during World War II.
 It was formed in February 1939, by upgrading the 1st Armoured Brigade ("1ª Brigata Corazzata").
 It took part in operations in Albania, Greece and Yugoslavia before returning to Italy.
 Sent to North Africa in August 1942, it surrendered in Tunisia on 13 May 1943.
The 1st Armoured Division was an armoured formation of the Australian Army, raised in 1941 as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during World War II.
 While the Division was originally to be deployed to North Africa in late 1941, it was retained in Australia following the outbreak of the Pacific War.
 The 1st Armoured Division formed a key element of Australia's defences against a feared Japanese invasion and was disbanded in Western Australia in September 1943.
The 31st Indian Armoured Division was an armoured division of the Indian Army during World War II, formed in 1940, originally as the 1st Indian Armoured Division; it consisted of units of the British Army and the British Indian Army.
 When it was raised, it consisted of two Armoured Brigades (the 1st and 2nd Indian Armoured Brigades) and one Motor Brigade (the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade).
The Battle of Norfolk was a tank battle fought on February 27, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, between armored forces of the United States and United Kingdom, and those of the Ba'athist Iraqi Republican Guard.
 The primary participants were the U.S. 2nd Armored Division (Forward),1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), and the Iraqi 18th Mechanized and 9th Armoured Brigades of the Republican Guard Tawakalna Mechanized Infantry Division along with elements from eleven other Iraqi divisions.
 The 2nd Armored Division(Fwd) was assigned to the American 1st Infantry Division as its 3rd maneuver brigade due to the fact that one of its brigades was not deployed.
 The British 1st Armoured division was responsible for protecting the right flank of VII Corps.
 Its main adversary being the Iraqi 52nd Armored Division and multiple infantry divisions.
 It was the final battle of the war before the unilateral ceasefire took effect.
 Two more battles occurred at Objective Dorset and near the oil field at Rumaila after the ceasefire.
 The Battle of Norfolk has been recognized by some sources as the second largest tank battle in American history and the largest tank battle of the 1st Gulf War.
 No fewer than 12 divisions participated in the Battle of Norfolk along with multiple brigades and elements of a regiment.
 American and British forces destroyed approximately 750 Iraqi tanks and hundreds of other types of combat vehicles.
 This goes without even taking into consideration the destruction of two additional Republican Guard divisions at Objective Dorset by the 3rd Armored Division on 28 February 1991.
 During this action the 3rd Armored Division destroyed 250 enemy vehicles and captured 2,500 Iraqi soldiers.
 Over a decade passed after the conflict before quality references became available on most of the battles that took place during the 1st Gulf War.
 Many of the land battles during Operation Desert Storm were larger than the majority of the battles that took place in southern and western Europe during World War Two, at least as far as the quantity of equipment involved.
1st Polish Armoured Regiment (Polish: "1 Pułk Pancerny" ) of the 1st Polish Armoured Division (Polish: "1 Dywizja Pancerna" ) is a short history of the 1st Armoured Regiment's origins in France till the end of World War II in Germany.