U.S. campaigns in WWII

The names below are as used by the US Army, although they were Allied campaigns. Other Allied countries may have named them differently.

Contents

1 European Theater of Operations 2 Mediterranean Theater of Operations 3 Pacific Theater of Operations 4 China Burma India Theater

European Theater of Operations

Operational command SHAEF ("Battle of the Bulge")

• Normandy Campaign June 6, 1944 - July 24, 1944
• Northern France Campaign July 25, 1944 - September 14, 1944
• Rhineland Campaign
  • Lorraine Campaign (unofficial) September 1, 1944 - December 18, 1944
• Ardennes-Alsace Campaign December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945
• Central Europe Campaign March 22, 1945 - May 11, 1945

Mediterranean Theater of Operations

Operational command AFHQ

• Algeria-French Morocco Campaign November 8, 1942 - November 11, 1942
• Anzio Campaign January 22, 1944 - May 24, 1944
• Egypt-Libya Campaign June 11, 1942 - February 12, 1943
• Naples-Foggia Campaign
• North Apennines Campaign
• Po Valley Campaign
• Rome-Arno Campaign
• Sicily Campaign
• Southern France Campaign (One month after the invasion, command was passed to SHAEF and the European Theater of Operations)
• Tunisia Campaign

Pacific Theater of Operations

Operational commands Pacific Ocean Areas and South West Pacific Area

• Aleutian Islands Campaign
• Bismarck Archipelago Campaign
• Central Pacific Campaign
• East Indies Campaign (see also battle of the Java Sea under ABDACOM)
• Eastern Mandates Campaign
• Guadalcanal Campaign
• Leyte Campaign
• Luzon Campaign
• New Guinea Campaign
• Northern Solomons Campaign
• Papua Campaign
• Philippine Islands Campaign
• Ryukyus Campaign
• Southern Philippines Campaign
• Western Pacific Campaign June 15, 1944 - September 2, 1945

China Burma India Theater

This was not a Theatre of Operations and it had no Operational Command, it was an Administrative Command. The Operational Command was joint Allied South East Asia Command in the South-East Asian Theater The American General Joseph Stilwell commanded the operational Northern Combat Area Command and used his other positions to communicate directly with Joint Chiefs of Staff about some operational matters.

• Burma Campaign
  • Burma 1942 Campaign
  • Central Burma Campaign
  • China Defensive Campaign July 4, 1942 - May 4, 1945
  • China Offensive Campaign May 5, 1945 - September 2, 1945
  • India-Burma Campaign