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Map showing the main areas of the conflict and Allied landings in the Pacific, 1942–45. | |||||||||
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Republic of China[2] Australia Soviet Union (1945) | and others [nb 2] | ||||||||
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14,000,000 [3] 2,400,000 [4] 1,669,500 [5] 1,250,000 [6] | 8,400,000 [7] | ||||||||
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- A Decade of American Foreign Policy 1941–1949 Interim Meeting of Foreign Ministers, Moscow. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
- Hastings: Retribution pg. 205
- Hastings: Retribution pg. 10 2,000,000 Indians and 400,000 British
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- Complete list of nations which fought on the Allied side in the Pacific War: The Republic of China, The United States, The United Kingdom (including the Fiji Islands, the Straits Settlements and other colonial forces), Tonga (a British protectorate), Australia (including the Territory of New Guinea), the Commonwealth of the Philippines (a United States protectorate), British India, the Netherlands (including Dutch East Indies colonial forces), the Soviet Union, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, and Mongolia. Free French Naval Forces contributed several warships, such as the Triomphant. After the Liberation of France, the French battleship Richelieu was sent to the Pacific. From 1943, the commando group Corps Léger d'Intervention took part in resistance operations in Indochina.
Guerrilla organizations which fought for the Allies include Chinese Red Army, Hukbalahap, Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army, Manchurian Anti-Japanese Volunteer Armies, the Korean Liberation Army, and the Viet Minh - Complete list of nations and groups which fought on the Axis side in the Pacific War: The Empire of Japan (including Thailand, the puppet government of Manchukuo, Mengjiang, Wang Jingwei regime, and other Chinese collaborationist governments and organizations, the State of Burma, the Provisional Government of Free India, the puppet Second Philippine Republic, and other states in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere). The Vichy French allowed the Japanese to use bases in French Indochina beginning in 1941. In addition, Nazi Germany and Italy both contributed small naval forces.
- 3.8 million Chinese military casualties (1937–45; 3.2 million Nationalist/-allied and 580,000 Communist),[8] 354,523 United States casualties (106,207 killed, 248,316 wounded and missing),[9] 52,000 British casualties including 12,000 deaths in captivity,[citation needed] 86,838 British Indian casualties (this casualty figure is for all theatres of World War Two that Indian troops fought in),[10][page needed] 17,501 Australian casualties,[11][page needed] 57,000 casualties from the Philippine Commonwealth,[citation needed] around 9,400 Dutch casualties including 8,500 who died in captivity (likely not including colonial forces),[citation needed] 578 New Zealander casualties,[12] 63,225 Soviet casualties (20,797 killed and missing, 42,428 wounded and sick), 5000 French military casualties in Indochina, 300 Mongolian casualties[13] and 5 Mexican deaths[14] Malaria was the most important health hazard encountered by U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II, where about 500,000 men were infected.[15]
- Over 17 million Chinese civilian deaths (1937–45);[8] around 4 million civilian deaths from the Dutch East Indies;[10][page needed], 2 million Indochinese civilians;[16] around 1.5 million British Indian civilian deaths; 0.5 to 1 million Filipino civilian deaths; and hundreds of thousands of Burmese, Malayan, Pacific and other civilian deaths.[10][page needed]
- 2,133,915 Japanese military deaths 1937–45,[17] 1.18 million Chinese collaborator casualties 1937–45 (432.000 dead),[citation needed] 22,000 Burmese casualties,[citation needed] 5,600 Thai casualties,[citation needed] and 2,615 Indian casualties.[citation needed]
- 580,000 Japanese civilian deaths,[10][page needed], 378,000 Korean and 300 Thai civilian deaths.[citation needed]