The document provides an overview of key events and figures in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) during World War 2. It describes Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 that brought the US into the war. It then lists major battles between US and Japanese forces such as Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. It also mentions the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that led to Japan's surrender, ending the war.

1. WWII Pacific Theater of Operations PTO Timeline

2. Background and info on the PTO

4. Pete Ellis: “Father of Amphibious warfare”

5. Guilio Douhet & Billy Mitchell: Aviation warfare pioneers.

6. Emperor Hirohito

7. Tojo

8. The Fighting Tigers Story of the fighting tigers

9. Louisiana’s Claire Chennault

10. Pearl Harbor

14. Dorie Miller

16. Douglass MacArthur

17. Holland “Howlin’ Mad” Smith

18. Admiral “Bull” Halsey

19. Admiral Chester Nimitz

20. Jimmy Doolittle

21. Admiral Yamamoto

22. Bataan Death March

23. Midway Atoll

24. Navy Hellcat

25. M1 Carbine "The greatest battle implement ever devised."

27. The Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively in World War II. The craft was designed by Andrew Higgins of Louisiana, based on boats made for operating in swamps and marshes.

28. Opposed amphibious landing

29. Tarawa

30. Landing at Tarawa

31. Battle of Coral Sea

32. US aircraft carriers

33. Japanese aircraft carrier

36. Japanese-Americans interred in camps Which is a Nazi concentration camp, and which is a Japanese-American internment camp?

37. 100th Infantry Battalion

38. Iwo Jima

39. Iwo Jima

40. Iwo Jima

41. Japanese balloon bomb US mainland Japanese balloon bomb campaign

42. Anti-Japanese propaganda

43. Gen. Curtis Lemay “ Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.”

44. Firebombing of Tokyo

45. Tokyo after the firebombing

46. Tokyo: charred bodies

47. Kamikaze pilots

48. Kamikaze pilot

49. Anti-aircraft fire

50. Invasion of Okinawa Okninawa

51. Hiroshima

52. Hiroshima

53. Japan Surrenders

54. VJ Day