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And since none of the Within the Guadalcanal campaign, the struggle islands in the Bismarck Archipelago-New over the control of Henderson Airfield further Guinea-Solomon area lay beyond fighter- demonstrates the strategic significance of the 3 Legacy of the Pacific War: 75 years Later . [...] strategic threat to the Allies in the South Pacific Success in the Guadalcanal campaign relied ended with the neutralization of the aerial and substantially upon the assistance of local Solomon naval capabilities of Rabaul and Truk, and the Allies Islanders and the European-led Coastwatcher could safely continue their advance towards Japan teams that operated behind enemy lines and and the end of. [...] Ultimately, the decisive blow against Japan may not have been dealt in the South Pacific theater, Despite this assistance to the Allies, Oceania’s but the initial Japanese danger to Allied supply experience of the war is complicated by its lines threatened to undermine the overall war history of colonial exploitation by the Allies and effort to the extent that the single-mindedly Japan. [...] Japan, whose successful 1941-1942 campaigns in the South Pacific and the Philippines launched The “father of the Chinese Navy,” Admiral Liu from Truk and Palau, acquired these launching Huaqing, first articulated what is now termed pads in the Treaty of Versailles prior to the war, the “three-island chain theory” in the 1980s. [...] China clearly understands the As a Pacific power, a member of the Five Eyes importance of the Pacific Islands, and American intelligence grouping, and a longstanding ally of and Australian policymakers would do well to the United States and Australia, New Zealand will remember the region’s lessons from the Pacific potentially find itself drawn into the burgeoning War.