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Machine generated contents note: Part I: Geo-Military Aspects of the Pacific Theater -- The Pacific Ocean -- The Islands -- Population and Political Dynamics -- Terminology -- Note -- Part II: World War I in the Pacific Chronology -- Pacific Ocean Area -- Southwest Pacific Area -- Part III: The Islands -- 1. Central and Southern Pacific U.S. Possessions -- Wake Island -- Midway Island -- Johnston Island -- Palmyra Island and Kingman Reef, Line Islands -- Christmas and Fanning Islands, Line Islands -- Canton Island, Phoenix Group -- French Frigate Shoal, Hawaiian Islands -- Notes -- Reading Suggestions -- 2. South Pacific Area -- The Island Bases and the Southern Lifeline -- Borabora Island, Society Islands -- Tongatabu Island, Tonga Islands -- New Caledonia Island -- Norfolk Island -- New Hebrides Islands -- Tutuila Island, American Samoa -- Upolu and Savai'i Islands, Western Samoa -- Wallis (Uv6a) Island -- Viti Levu Island, Fiji Islands -- Solomon Islands -- Notes -- Reading Suggestions -- 3. Southwest Pacific Area -- New Guinea (Papua and North-East New Guinea) -- Kiriwina and Woodlark Islands, Territory of Papua -- Bismarck Archipelago -- Netherlands East Indies (and British and Portuguese East -- Indies Possessions) -- The Philippines -- Notes -- Reading Suggestions -- 4. Central Pacific Area -- Gilbert and Ellice Crown Colony -- Nauru Island -- Ocean Island -- Japanese Mandated Territory -- Marshall Islands -- Mariana Islands -- Caroline Islands -- Notes -- Reading Suggestions -- 5. Western Pacific -- Nanpo Shoto, Japan -- Nansei Shoto, Japan -- Reading Suggestions -- 6. North Pacific Area -- Aleutian Islands, Alaska -- Reading Suggestions. |
