Navy Campaigns
Authorized Navy military campaigns for the Pacific Theater are as follows:
- Pearl Harbor--Midway December 7, 1941
- Wake Island (Johnston Island December 15–22, 1941) December 8–23, 1941
- Philippine Islands Operation December 8, 1941 – May 6, 1942
- Netherlands East Indies engagements January 23 – February 27, 1942
- Pacific Specified Raids—1942 February 1, 1942 – March 10, 1942
- Coral Sea May 4–8, 1942
- Midway June 3–6, 1942
- Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings (including First Savo) August 7–9, 1942
- Capture and defense of Guadalcanal August 10, 1942 – February 8, 1943
- Makin Raid August 17–18, 1942
- Eastern Solomons (Stewart Island) August 23–25, 1942
- Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid October 5, 1942
- Cape Esperance (Second Savo) October 11–12, 1942
- Santa Cruz Islands October 26, 1942
- Guadalcanal (Third Savo) November 12–15, 1942
- Tassafaronga (Fourth Savo) November 30 – December 1, 1942
- Eastern New Guinea operation December 17, 1942 – July 24, 1944
- Rennel Island January 29–30, 1943
- Consolidation of Solomon Islands February 8, 1943 – March 15, 1945
- Aleutians operation March 26 – June 2, 1943
- New Georgia Group operation June 20 – October 16, 1943
- Bismarck Archipelago operation June 25, 1943 – May 1, 1944
- Pacific Specified Raids—1943 August 31, 1943 – October 6, 1943
- Treasury-Bougainville operation October 27 – December 15, 1943
- Gilbert Islands operation November 13 – December 8, 1943
- Marshall Islands operation November 26, 1943 – March 2, 1944
- Asiatic-Pacific Specified Raids—1944 February 16, 1944 – October 9, 1944
- Western New Guinea operations April 21, 1944 – January 9, 1945
- Marianas operation June 10 – August 27, 1944
- Western Caroline Islands operation August 31 – October 14, 1944
- Leyte operation October 10 – November 29, 1944
- Luzon operation December 12, 1944 – April 1, 1945
- Iwo Jima operation February 15 – March 16, 1945
- Okinawa Gunto operation March 17 – June 30, 1945
- 3d Fleet operations against Japan July 10 – August 15, 1945
- Kurile Islands operation February 1, 1944 – August 11, 1945
- Borneo operations April 27 – July 20, 1945
- Tinian capture and occupation July 24 – August 1, 1944
- Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines February 28 – July 20, 1945
- Hollandia operation (Aitape Humbolt Bay-Tanahmerah Bay) April 21 – June 1, 1944
- Manila Bay-Bicol operations January 29 – April 16, 1945
- U.S.S. Navajo—Salvage operations August 8, 1942 – February 3, 1943
- Action off Vanikoro July 17–21, 1943
- Naval Group China (6 months duty required) February 19, 1943 – May 4, 1945
- Task Group 30.4 May 22 – June 15, 1944
- Task Group 12.2 July 5 – August 9, 1944
- Specified Minesweeping Operations Pacific June 23, 1945 – March 2, 1946
- Submarine War Patrols (Pacific – 1 star for participation in each war patrol) December 7, 1941 – September 2, 1945
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