 Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Hondo yakatanga kuAmerica musi wa7 December 1941 nokurwiswa kwePearl Harbor neJapan, uye kupinda muPhilippinesneDutch East Indies. Hondo dzakaomarara muPapua neGuadalcanal dzakatevera muna 1942. Muna 1943, vaJapan vakadzingwa muAleutian Islands, uye mauto eU.S. akasvika kuchamhembe kweSolomon Islands, Gilbert Islands, uye Bismarck Archipelago. Ikoku kwakateverwa muna 1944 nokupinda muMarshall Islands, nhevedzano yokumhara kumadokero kweNew Guinea, kutorwa kweMariana Islands uye Hondo yePalau. Mauto eU.S. akadzokera kuPhilippines muna October 1944, achirwisa zvikuru Luzon uye kumaodzanyemba kwePhilippines kusvikira muna 1945. Mauto eU.S. akasvika paOkinawa muna April 1945. Mabhomba enyukireya akagadzirwa achitungamirirwa neuto reU.S. akadonhedzwa paHiroshima neNagasaki muna 1945, izvo zvakaita kuti vaJapan vazviise pasi pasina zvavaireva musi wa2 September 1945, vari mungarava yainzi USS Missouri. 