A Comparison Of European And Pacific Theater Warfare

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory” are the words of General George Smith Patton Jr.. He was a senior officer of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the United States. I chose this man’s quote to begin with because the quote has such strength to it. The first sentence of the quote really hit me. Throughout all of the wars fought, weapons were not the ones that won the wars, the men were the winners. In WW2 there were leaders who guided blood shedding, tragic battles, that were used with different types of machinery. I will be comparing leaders and the types of machinery used between the European and Pacific Theaters.

A warfare theater is a place in which important military events occur or are progressing. A theater can be the entirety of the air space, land and sea area that is or that may potentially become involved in war operations. The Pacific Ocean theater, during World War II, was a major theater of the war between the Allies and Japan. The European Theatre of World War II, which was also known as the Second European War, was a huge area of heavy fighting across Europe. World War two was a split war between The Axis Powers and the Allied powers . The Axis powers were Germany, Japan and Italy. The Allied powers were Great Britain, The United States, China, and the Soviet