The War in the Pacific By The Numbers

A truly massive conflict

Grant Piper
War Stories
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5 min readNov 30, 2021

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Allied advances through the Pacific (Public domain)

When Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in 1941 they could not have known that they were kicking off the largest conflict in human history. The Pacific War or the Pacific Theater of World War II was the largest conflict ever fought in terms of area, miles traveled, and territory covered. The fight between the Empire of Japan and the United…

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Grant Piper
War Stories

Professional writer. Amateur historian. Husband, father, Christian.