There are thousands of islands near japan and china and the US navy had to combat the Japanese on many of these islands. Japan had a stronger navy only because their whole navy was focused in one area. They used island hopping as a military strategy. They'd go after more strategically important islands and skip smaller ones. And eventually those smaller islands would surrender because they wouldnt have supplies or support getting to them cause they were surrounded. December 7, Phillipines 1941. Pearl harbor was hit although pearl harbor was the biggest attack there were also several other islands that were hit by the japanese. Manila was the Capital of the Phillipines. MacArthur was the general in charge of the australian and us forces in Australia. As the Filipino soldiers retreated they would destroy bridges and things like that. The Bataan Death march took place 1942 of may. This was the worst war crime in the war. The japanese forced us and philipino troops to walk 60 miles from one camp to the other. over 75000 troops were forced to walk. On may 30th, 2009. The japanese ambassoder officially apologized to the US. Navajo code talkers were very effective as radio transmitters because the language wasnt written down so the language was never figured out. They never got recognized until 1982 for their help. They didnt get metals until the year 2000 president bush personally presented medals to four survivers of the war that were navajo code talkers.
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