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Authorized by Executive Order 9265, as amended (reference (gggg)).

Specific eligibility requirements for the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal are outlined in appropriate Service regulations. Awarded to Service members under one of the following conditions:

Assigned outside the CONUS in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater for at least 30 days between December 7, 1941 and March 2, 1946

Was an evader or escapee in the combat zone or recovered from a POW status in the combat zone during the time limitations of the campaign. The POWs shall not be accorded credit for the time spent in confinement or while otherwise in restraint under enemy control.

Service stars were authorized for both U.S. Army and U.S. Navy Service members to indicate participation in certain engagements with the enemy. Additionally, certain Service members may be eligible for the "Arrowhead" device. Such a device denotes participation in a combat parachute jump, combat glider landing, or amphibious assault landing.

Boundaries of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater are as follows:

Eastern Boundary. Coincident with the western boundary of the American Theater.

Western Boundary. From the North Pole south along the 60th meridian east longitude to its intersection with the east boundary of Iran, thence south along the Iranian boundary to the Gulf of Oman and the intersection of the 60th meridian east longitude, thence south along the 60th meridian east longitude to the South Pole.

Authorized Devices: Bronze Star, Silver Star,
Bronze Marine Corps Device(Navy),
Bronze Arrowhead (Army & Air Force)

List of US Navy World War II Ships By Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Codes

P1 Pearl Harbor--Midway
Wake Island (including Johnston Island 15-22 Dec 41)
Philippine Islands Operation (including Guam and other concurrent Asiatic Fleet operations)
Netherlands East Indies engagements. (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P4-1
Makassar Strait
P4-2
Badoeng Strait
P4-3
Java Sea
Pacific Raids--1942 (Only 1 start for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P5-1
Marshall-Gilbert raids
P5-2
Air action off Bougainville
P5-3
Wake Island raid
P5-4
Marcus Island raid
P5-5
Salamaua-Lae raid
Coral Sea
Midway
Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings (including First Savo)
Capture and defense of Guadalcanal
Makin raid
Eastern Solomons (Stewart Island)
Buin-Faisi-Tonolai raid
Cape Esperance (Second Savo)
Santa Cruz Islands
Guadalcanal (Third Savo)
Tassafaronga (Fourth Savo)
Eastern New Guinea operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P17-1
Designated duty in connection with motor torpedo boat operation
P17-2
Lae occupation
P17-3
Finschaffen occupation
P17-4
Saidor occupation
P17-5
Wewak-Aitape operations
P17-6
Supporting and consolidating operations designated by Commander Seventh Fleet
P17-7
Woodlark Island; occupation and consolidation of
Rennell Island
Consolidation of Solomon Islands (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or both of the following:)
P19-1
Consolidation of Southern Solomons
P19-2
Consolidation of Northern Solomons
Aleutians operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P20-1
Komandorski Island
P20-2
Attu occupation
New Georgia Group operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P21-1
New Georgia-Rendova-Vangunu occupation
P21-2
Kula Gulf action
P21-3
Kolombangara action
P21-4
Vella Gulf action
P21-5
Vella Lavella occupation
P21-6
Action off Vella Lavella
Bismarck Archipelago operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P22-1
Designated duty in connection with motor torpedo boat operations
P22-2
Supporting air actions
P22-3
Arawe, New Britain
P22-4
Kavieng strike
P22-5
Cape Gloucester, New Britain
P22-6
Kavieng strike
P22-7
Kavieng strike
P22-8
Green Islands landing
P22-9
Bombardments of Kavieng and Rabaul
P22-10
Antishipping sweeps and bombardments of Kavieng
P22-11
Antishipping sweeps and bombardments of Rabaul and New Ireland
P22-12
Admiralty Island landings
P22-13
Supporting and consolidating operations designated by Commander 7th Fleet
Pacific Raids--1943 (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P23-1
Marcus Island raid
P23-2
Tarawa Island raid
P23-3
Wake Island raid
Treasury-Bougainville operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P24-1
Supporting air actions
P24-2
Treasury Island landing
P24-3
Choiseul Island diversion
P24-4
Occupation and defense of Cape Torokina
P24-5
Bombardment of Buka-Bonis
P24-6
Buka-Bonis strike
P24-7
Bombardment of Shortland area
P24-8
Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
P24-9
Rabaul strike
P24-10
Action off Empress Augusta Bay
P24-11
Rabaul strike
P24-12
Battle off Cape St. George
Gilbert Islands operation
Marshall Islands operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P26-1
Air attacks designated by CinCPac on defended Marshall Islands targets
P26-2
Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls
P26-3
Occupation of Eniwetok Atoll
P26-4
Attack on Jaluit Atoll
P26-5
Mille Atoll
Asiatic-Pacific Raids-1944 (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P27-1
Truk attack
P27-2
Marianas attack
P27-3
Palau, Yap, Ulithi, Woleai raid
P27-4
Sabang raid
P27-5
Truk, Satawan, Ponape raid
P27-6
Soerabaja raid
P27-7
Bombardment of Marcus Island
Western New Guinea operations (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P28-1
Designated duty in connection with motor torpedo boat operations
P28-3
Toem-Wakde-Sarmi area operation
P28-4
Biak Island operation
P28-5
Noemfoor Island operation
P28-6
Cape Sansapor operation
P28-7
Supporting and consolidating operations designated by Commander 7th Fleet
P28-8
Morotai Landings
Marianas operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P29-1
Neutralization of Japanese Bases in the Bonins, Marianas, and western Pacific
P29-2
Capture and occupation of Saipan
P29-3
First Bonins raid
P29-4
Battle of Philippine Sea
P29-5
2d Bonins raid
P29-6
3d Bonins raid
P29-7
Capture and occupation of Guam
P29-9
Palau, Yap, Ulithi raid
P29-10
Forth Bonins raid
Western Caroline Islands operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P30-1
Raids on Volcano-Bonin Islands and Yap Island
P30-2
Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands
P30-3
Assaults on the Philippine Islands
Leyte operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P31-1
Leyte landings
P31-2
Battle of Surigao Strait
P31-3
3d Fleet supporting operations Okinawa Attack
P31-4
Northern Luzon and Formosa attacks
P31-5
Luzon attacks
P31-6
Visayas attacks
P31-7
Ormoc Bay landings
P31-8
Battle of Samar
P31-9
Battle of Cape Engano
P31-10
Submarine participation
Luzon operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P32-1
Mindoro landings
P32-2
Lingayen Gulf landing
3d Fleet supporting operations:
P32-3
      Luzon attacks
P32-4
      Formosa attacks
P32-5
      China Coast attacks
P32-6
      Nansei Shoto attack
Iwo Jima operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P33-1
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima
P33-2
5th Fleet raids against Honshu and the Nansei Shoto
P33-3
Bombardments of Iwo Jima
Okinawa Gunto operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P34-1
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto
P34-2
5th and 3d Fleet raids in support of Okinawa Gunto operation
3d Fleet operations against Japan
Kurile Islands operation (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P36-1
Masashi-Wan-Kurabu-Zaki
P36-2
Matsuwa
P36-3
Kurabu Zaki
P36-4
Matsuwa
P36-5
Suribachi Wan
P36-6
Kurabu Zaki
P36-7
Matsuwa
P36-8
Search in Okhotsk Sea and bombardment of Suribachi
P36-9
Matsuwa
P36-10
Attack on enemy convoy west of Kurile Islands
P36-11
Search on Okhotsk Sea and bombardment of Suribachi Wan
P36-12
Antishipping sweep and bombardment of Matsuwa-Kurabu Zaki and Suribachi
Borneo operations (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P37-1
Tarakan Island operation
P37-2
Brunei Bay operation
P37-3
Balikpapan operation
Tinian capture and occupation
Consolidation of the Southern Philippines
P39-1
Palawan Islands landings
P39-2
Visayan Island landings (including Lubang, Ticao-Burias, Panay, Cebu, Negros, Masbate and Bohol
P39-3
Mindanao Island landings (including Zamboanga, Malabang-Parang-Cotabato, Davao Gulf, Digos-Santa Cruz-Taloma Bay-Luayon-Cape San Augustin, Macajalar Bay, Sarangani Bay-Balut Island)
P39-4
Zulu Archipelago landings (including Sanga Sanga, Tawi Tawi, Jolo)
P39-5
Supporting mine sweeping operations (including San Bernardino Straits-Verde Island Passage, Casiguran Sound-Baler Bay, Coron Bay, Balavac Strait)
Hollandia operation (Aitape Humbolt Bay-Tanahmerah Bay)
Manila Bay-Bicol operations (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P41-1
Zambales-Subic Bay
P41-2
Nasugbu
P41-3
Mariveles-Corregidor
P41-4
Minesweeping of Manila Bay
P41-5
El Fraile (Fort Drum), Manila Bay
P41-6
Carabao Island, Manila Bay
Escort, antisubmarine, armed guard and special operations:
(1 star for participation in each of the following:)
U.S.S. Navajo--Salvage operations
Action off Vanikoro
Naval Group China (6 months duty required)
Task Group 30.4
Task Group 12.2
Minesweeping Operations Pacific (Only 1 star for participation in 1 or more of the following:)
P207-1
Tsugaru Straits (Honshu Area)
P207-2
Tokyo Bay (Honshu Area)
P207-3
Nagoya (Honshu Area)
P207-4
Sendai-Choshi (Honshu)
P207-5
Wakanoura-Kiki (Honshu Area)
P207-6
Kochi-Shikoku (Honshu Area)
P207-7
Bungo-Suido (Honshu Area)
P207-8
Omai-Saki (Honshu Area)
P207-9
Kobe (Honshu Area)
P207-10
Kure-Hiroshima (Honshu Area)
P207-11
Kagoshima (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-12
Nagasaki (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-13
Sasebo (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-14
Arcadia (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-15
Van Dieman Straits (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-16
Kadoura (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-17
Tsushima Straits (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-18
Fukuoka (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-19
Tachibana Wan (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-20
Fusan (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-21
   "Rickshaw" (Kyushu-Korea Area)
P207-22
   "Klondike" (East China Sea-Ryukyus Area)
P207-23
   "Skagway" (East China Sea-Ryukyus Area)
P207-24
   "Reno" (East China Sea-Ryukyus Area)
P207-26
Yulinkan Bay Area
P207-27
East Hainan Area
P207-28
Yangtze River Approaches
Submarine War Patrols (Pacific)
(1 star for participation in each war patrol.)
 
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