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Admiral Nimitz called for another american two prong attack, while crossing the pacific ocean they hopped from one island to the next, the marines had to plunge into the water, shoulder width, and while passing only one in three made it to shore.
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General Douglas MacArthur troops began their own campaign in the southwest pacific, they invaded the Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. They surrounded and captured the Japanese region.
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The bataan death march was a time when 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to march while in horrible condition, to a Japanese prison camp. Almost 10,000 died and they called this battan death march.
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The dooolittle raid was back when when president Rosevelt wanted to bomb Tokyo and change the morale of American people, but Japanese ships prevented carriers from getting near Japan. The president put lieutenant in charge, an aircraft called the hornet, and the next day bombs dropped on Japan for the first time.
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Admiral nimitz had waited for an opportunity to ambush the japanese fleet, he ordered carriers in midway, and launched them around the summer time. 38 aircrafts from the japanese were shot down. The Japanese carriers were caught with their weapons and materials. The japanese overall lost their carriers (4). Later on the japanese were stopped from advancing.
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Was a major war at sea battle, that was an invasion of the phillpines. It was in the southwest of central pacific.
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Mariana islands, They used his island for the base of a new heavy bomber, which used the b-29 superforttress, which could fly farther than any other plane in the world.
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Kamikazes were an important aspect of ww2, they were mainly used in Japanese war, they were Japanese suicide pilots that had a planned attack to crash into its opponent.