covers the Japanese garrisons on the by-passed Pacific islands from 1944 to 1945, including the Japanese mandated territory of the South Seas Mandate. Boshiro...

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II Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate, details on Japanese forces in bypassed islands Jowett, Phillip (2002). The Japanese...

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Structure of the Imperial Japanese forces in the South Seas Mandate, details on Japanese forces in bypassed islands "Operations Against the Japanese on...

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powers' South West Pacific Area (SWPA) command. In the South West Pacific theatre, Japanese forces fought primarily against the forces of the United States...

September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) had become incapable of conducting major...

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