Today i will pay attention. Promise.
finished up doolittle's raid yesterday. and stuff.
i have broken my promise already. but from here on out!
Pacific Battles: (mostly between us and japan)
Battle of Midway........(around hawaii)
um. i'll start taking notes on the next thing.
we destroyed japan's navi in this battle.
Guadalcanal
The Guadalcanal Campain, was fought between August 7, 1942 and feb 9th 1943 in the Solomon Island Archipelago (by australia, new zealand). The Guadalcanal Campaign was a significant strategic victory by allied forces over the japanese in the pacific theatre. guadalcanal marked the transition by the allies from defensive operations to offensive that resulted in japans eventual surrender and the end of WW2.
Island hopping.
MacArthur's Return to the Philippines....
he had said "I shall return." 2 years later, he did. 2 takes, cuz he wanted coming ashore to be perfect cuz he knew it would go down in history. so they had to go back onto the ship and come out again. dude had a big head.
Iwo Jima.
two flags raisings....yeah. cuz the first one was too small for people to see. but the raising of the flag on Mt. Suribachi is pretty famous. the picture of them putting up the flag and mounting it in the ground is also famous.
we didnt want to invade japan if we didnt have to, but this was knocking on their door.
Okinawa
at this point, we are bombing a ton, and most major japanese cities are 50-90% ruined. we think we have to invade, although we dont want to. japan's attack strategy was the Kamikaze. we used something similar to D-Day tactics....
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