| KINKAID | Thomas C., Commander Allied Naval Forces in the South West Pacific during World War II (7) |
| CORALSEA | Battle of the ____, 1942 WWII conflict between Japan and Allied forces in the South Pacific (5,3) |
| SHERATON | Thomas -, c. Eighteen-nineteen English furniture maker |
| FIJIANS | Inhabitants of a country in the south-west Pacific (7) |
| IWOJIMA | Island in the West Pacific that was the scene of prolonged fighting between Japan and the US in the Second World War (3,4) |
| VANUATU | Country of the south-west Pacific |
| SOLDIER | The American ___ community representing the U.S. forces in the Iraq War which was declared as the Time Person of the Year in 2003 |
| OCEANIA | South-West Pacific region (7) |
| TYPHOON | Cyclonic tropical storm occurring in the region of the north-west Pacific Ocean (7) |
| REMAGEN | German town with a critical Rhine bridge captured by US forces in the closing days of the Second World War |
| AGRIPPA | Marcus Vipsanius ___, Roman general whose naval forces defeated those of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium (31 BC) (7) |
| BATTLES | Bostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war (7) |
| TACTICS | Military science of manoeuvring forces in the presence of an enemy; or, strategies in general (7) |
| MACARTHUR | General Douglas who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the southwest Pacific during W |
| BADAJOZ | City in Extremadura, captured by British forces in the Peninsular War |
| COCHISE | Apache chief who led Native American resistance against US forces in the Arizona region between 1861 and 1872 (7) |
| ARMADAS | Naval forces |
| NAURU | Small island republic in the South West Pacific, west of Kiribati (5) |
| NEWGUINEA | Large island in the south-west Pacific (299,310 sq miles; pop about 12.5 million (3,6) |
| FIJI | An independent republic consisting of a number of islands in the South West Pacific (4) |
