Road to WW2 · BATTLE SITE · 1941

Attack on Clark Field (1941)

On the Road to WW2 map as “Clark Field”

8 Dec 1941 — News of Pearl Harbor reaches the Philippines, but nine hours later MacArthur’s air force is destroyed on the ground at Clark Field. The US Commonwealth lies open.

When: 8 Dec 1941
Type: Battle site
Chapter: Pearl Harbor and US entry into WW2 (chapter 12 of Road to WW2)
Atlas: The Road to War, 1931–1941

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Map showing Attack on Clark Field (1941), battle site in The Road to War, 1931–1941 — BATTLE SITE · THE ROAD TO WAR, 1931–1941

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Army Center of Military History — American Military History, The War Against Japan · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · US diplomatic records — Jehol occupation,March1933 · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · USMA: Japanese Occupation, 1940

Source details

Office of the Chief of Military History,1969, chapter23. Official US Army text and maps; public domain
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
US diplomatic records — Jehol occupation,March1933. Historical facts consulted; no source artwork or prose republished
Natural Earth. Public domain
United States Military Academy, Department of History, Digital History Center. Source-map facts used for independent geographic reconstruction; original chart artwork is not republished

The separately published Tibetan polity remains neutral. The authored modern-China interaction region does not make Tibet a Chinese battlefield or Allied-controlled territory.

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