The United States is the only country that fought in every single Theater of World War 2.
The US fought from December 7,
1941 until August 14, 1945.
16,112,566 Americans served in
the United States Armed Forces, with 291,557 killed and 671,278 wounded.
130,201 Americans became Prisoners
of War, of whom 116,129 returned home after the War.
The US fought in the Atlantic
Ocean Theater from 1941-1945 (US Occupied Iceland; US Occupied Greenland, Sank
German U-Boats; Sent US Troop Ships to Europe with Soldiers, Weapons and
Supplies, etc.)
The US Fought in the Caribbean
Theater from 1941-1945 (Sank German U-Boats, Protected Shipping and Raw
Materials, built American Bases on Non-American Islands, Protected Dutch
Curacao and Aruba Oil from German Attacks, Len Lease, etc.)
The US Fought in the North
American Theater from 1941-1945 (Sank German U-Boats off the coast of the
US – Torpedo Alley; Protected Shipping Troops and Raw Materials; Stopped German
Attacks on the US under Operation Pastorius , Stopped Japanese Attacks on the US
– along the West Coast and The Aleutian Islands of Alaska which were occupied
by the Japanese from 1942-1943, Won the
Battle of the Saint Lawrence, Lend Lease, etc.)
The US Fought in the Latin
American Theater from 1941-1945 (Sank German U-Boats, Built American Bases
on Non-American Countries, Carried out Espionage on the Germans, Lend Lease,
etc.)
The US Fought in the Western
European Theater from 1941-1945 (Lend Lease, Sent Undercover Agents of the Office
of Strategic Services to German-Occupied Territory, Bombed Germany, D-Day
Landings in northern France, Liberation of France, Operation Market Garden, The
Battle of the Bulge, Crossing the Rhine River into Germany, Meeting with the
Soviets at the Elbe River, the Liberation of Concentration Camps, etc.)
The US Fought in the Eastern
European Theater from 1941-1945 (Lend Lease, Sent Arctic Conveys to supply
the USSR, Warsaw Airlift, etc.)
The US Fought in the Mediterranean
Theater from 1942-1945 (Sent Conveys to break the Siege of Malta, Invasion
of Sicily, Invasion of the rest of Italy, Invasion of southern France, Battle
of Anzio, Liberation of Rome, etc.)
The US Fought in the North
Africa Theater from 1942-1945 (Operation Torch – Invasion of Morocco and
Tunisia, etc.)
The US Fought in the African
Theater from 1942-1945 (Lend Lease, Protected against German Attacks,
Shipped Raw Materials, etc.)
The US Fought in the Middle
East Theater from 1942-1945 (Lend Lease, Sent Materials and Men to British
Mandatory of Palestine, Protected Egypt, etc.)
The US Fought in the Antarctic
Theater from 1942-1945 (Operation Tabarin, etc.)
The US Fought in the Australia/New
Zealand Theater from 1941-1945 (Lend Lease, Protected against Japanese
Invasion, Built US Bases, etc.)
The US Fought in the Pacific
Theater from 1941-1945 (Fought the Japanese Island-To Island, The American
Territories of the Philippines and Guam were Occupied by the Japanese from
1942-1945, Bombed Japan including the Doolittle Raid, Battle of the Coral Sea,
Battle of Midway, Battle of Guadalcanal, Sank Japanese Subs, Burma Campaign,
Battle of Saipan, Liberation of the Philippines, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa,
Dropped Atomic Bombs, etc.)
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