Island hopping. A lot of the islands didn't even have people living on them, so we skipped some islands when we were invading them.
Philippines was US's since 1800 so when we lost we went to Australia.
Midway: Japan was going to plan another attack but got caught and got attacked. Turned around US and Japan. They wanted Midway to expand empire and defensive perimeter.
When you're fighting from islands having room for an air strip to take off is very important.
Iwo Jima: volcanic island. We needed the air strip. Wost battle for US. We did not meet a lot of resistance. Flag raising; decided they needed a bigger flag.. so it was actually raised twice.
Okinawa: not all islands we fought were actually Japanese, but this one was. Japanese surrendered.
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