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.
Operational command SHAEF"Battle of the Bulge")Normandy Campaign June 6, 1944 - July 24, 1944Northern France Campaign July 25, 1944 - September 14, 1944Rhineland Campaign*Lorraine Campaign (unofficial) September 1, 1944 - December 18, 1944Ardennes-Alsace Campaign December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945 Central Europe Campaign March 22, 1945 - May 11, 1945
Operational command AFHQAlgeria-French Morocco Campaign November 8, 1942 - November 11, 1942Anzio Campaign January 22, 1944 - May 24, 1944Egypt-Libya Campaign June 11, 1942 - February 12, 1943Naples-Foggia CampaignNorth Apennines CampaignPo Valley CampaignRome-Arno CampaignSicily CampaignSouthern France Campaign (One month after the invasion, command was passed to SHAEF and the European Theater of Operations)Tunisia Campaign
Operational commands Pacific Ocean Areas and South West Pacific Area Aleutian Islands CampaignBismarck Archipelago CampaignCentral Pacific CampaignEast Indies Campaign (see also battle of the Java Sea under ABDACOM)Eastern Mandates CampaignGuadalcanal CampaignLeyte CampaignLuzon CampaignNew Guinea CampaignNorthern Solomons CampaignPapua CampaignPhilippine Islands CampaignRyukyus CampaignSouthern Philippines CampaignWestern Pacific Campaign June 15, 1944 - September 2, 1945
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.
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