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Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike. Conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Flying Tigers
Claire L. Chennault, a retierd US army captain, to fight japan and Japan during 1941, 1942. This was around when Japan controlled China's transportation and ports, He almost cut China's Nationalist Government out of the outside world. They could'nt score over a bigger Japan but they did much damage. -
U.S. victory over Japanese in the Battle of Bismarck Sea.
roops fought to remove Japanese garrisons established on a pair of U.S.-owned islands west of Alaska. It was the only U.S. soil Japan would claim during the war in the Pacific. t’s also possible the Japanese believed holding the two islands could prevent the U.S. from invading Japan. -
U.S. Troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands.
In the Battle of Attu, the main conflict of the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II. The Japanese fought from May 11 to May 30,1943, for the control of Attu, a small, sparsely island at the far western end of alaska. Japan believed holding the two islands would prevent the U.S. from invading Japan -
D-Day
Dwight Eisenhower led a U.S and allied army of troops in the invasion of Normady france. The army fought there way through france, and belgium. Into Germany while Russian troops fought on the east. -
U.S. Marines invade Tinian.
two Marine divisions commanded by Marine Major General Harry Schmidt landed on Tinian. Tinian's unusually flat, rolling terrain was favorable to a rapid advance by infantry and tanks, and the disorganized Japanese did not manage to solidify a defense line. A Chinese counterattack failed. -
U.S. Carrier-based planes attack the Mariana Islands.
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Iwo Jima
The US had conducted initial air raids against Japan befor the invation in 1944. -
Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
On this day at 8:16, Japan time , an American B-29 bomber, the Enola gay, drops teh world first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. About 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast. About 35,000 were injured.
