Pacific theater

Because there were objections to the use of low melting paraffin in ammo to be Used in the Pacific Theater where relatively high ambient temps are encountered, work was directed in modifying the D-l Compn to utilize a high melting wax to replace the paraffin. The expl mixt utilizing the modified D-l Compn, designated as Compn D-2, was called HBX. The formulation of HBX is 38/17/40/5 TNT/A1/RDX/ D-2 Compn. This expl is basically Torpex 2 with 5% Compn D-2. The requirements for the D-2 sensitizer are as follows ... 

The timing of Muller s discovery insured its early application in the Mediterranean and South Pacific theaters of World War II to eliminate mosquito-vectored diseases malaria, filariasis, dengue fever also typhoid fever, carried by lice and fleas. 

Chloroquine is a semisynthetic derivative of quinine, the first drug used effectively to treat malaria. Chloroquine was used for decades as the drug of choice to treat malaria because it was a safe, highly effective, and relatively inexpensive drug. The effectiveness of chloroquine was first clearly demonstrated during World War II when in the Pacific Theater more GIs... 

Despite Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Japanese sweep across a million square miles of Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, the Pacific theater commanded less attention in the United States in the earher years of the war than did the European. Partly that neglect was a result of the deliberate national pohey that gave priority to Europe. Europe was Washington s darling, Pacific Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey would write in a mem-... 

General MacArthur was named, after the return to the Philippines, to command the U.S. Army Forces, Pacific (AFPAC), with jurisdiction over all Pacific theaters. In July 1945 Copthorne achieved what since April 1942 he had considered to be his rightful place— he was named Chief Chemical Officer, AFPAC. He finally had technical control of the CWS not only in the service command but also in the air forces and the ground forces. Of the theater chemical officers in World War II only General Shadle as Chief Chemical Officer, AFHQ, enjoyed a comparable official position. 

Ltr, Unmacht to CG Hawaiian Dept, 7 Jan 43, tub Theater Plans for Cml Warfare. CWS 314.7 Central Pacific Theater. 

While the portable flame thrower was wiiming a good name in the South Pacific theater, it was getting a reputation of a wholly different sort in the Southwest Pacific. The origins of its notoriety go back to December 1942 and the Papua Campaign. 

The poor results of flame thrower improvisation in the Pacific theaters was no cause for criticism of the responsible chemical officers and tank commanders the portable flame thrower was basically unsuited for tank adaption. If nothing else, these efforts clearly indicated that improvisation was not the answer and underlined the real need for a mechanized flame thrower in the Pacific fighting. 

America s formal entry into the war on December 8, 1941, only accelerated this trend. Street and Smith had a nonfiction comic entitled Remember Pearl Harbor on the stands by early 1942. This 56-page book combined the various genres, as it included detailed maps of the Pacific theater, an extensive historical text, and the illustrated story of America s first war hero. Captain Colin Kelly Jr., who sank the Japanese dreadnought Haruna at the cost of his own life. The book ended with an appeal to buy war bonds. 

The period 1900-1950 witnessed a significant expansion of military lands in the U.S., particularly to mobilize and train land-based and air-based forces (Army, Army Air Corps and Marine Corps) for combat in the European and Pacific Theaters of WWI and WWII. Two examples of this expansion were lands acquired to support the Louisiana Maneuvers in the southeastern U.S. in preparation for the land... 

In July 1943 the CWS asked the ASF for authority to establish a chemical warfare school toward the West Coast. The recommendation was advanced as a means of providing final instruction for military personnel moving into Pacific theaters of operations and of eliminating extensive travel for those selected at western stations for training in chemical warfare. The functions of the new school would be (i) to provide for short technical refresher courses of one-week duration for CWS officers in the Far West who were scheduled for overseas duty (2) to provide short courses for units gas officers who could not be economically sent to the Chemical Warfare School at Edgewood (3) to conduct training for civilians, as directed by the Office of Civilian Defense and (4) to meet requests of naval authorities for training naval personnel on the Pacific coast in gas defense. ... 

End of month Total overseas American Theaters North African, Mediterranean Theaters European Theater South Pacific Theater Central Pacific Theater Southwest Pacific Theater Asiatic, China, Burma, India Theaters Middle Eastern Theater/ Mil. Attaches. and WD Groups and Missions Enroute U.S. to Theaters ... 

The CWS contracted for the manufacture of 1,000 recoilless mortars, 100 of the weapons being completed before the end of the war. Recoilless mortars reached the Tenth Army in the Pacific theater in time for the Okinawa campaign, but otherwise they were produced too late for battle... 

The scale of operations varied considerably from port to port. The San Francisco Port of Embarkation, bearing primary responsibility for supply of the Pacific theaters, processed a rising flood of CWS equipment and... 

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