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It was a major naval battle in the Pacific. It gave the united states confidence they could win the war. -
It was one of the first major events that got America in ww2. It was when Japan attacked an American naval base. It killed more than 2400 Americans. It also destroyed many ships and airplanes. -
A few hours after bombing Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked American airfields in the Philippines. Two days later, they landed troops. The American and Filipino forces defending the Philippines were badly outnumbered.
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Acting upon the suggestion of Philip Johnston, an engineer who had lived on a Navajo reservation as a child, the marines recruited Navajos to serve as “code talkers.”Code talkers proved invaluable in combat. They could relay a message in minutes that would have taken a code-machine operator hours to encipher and transmit. -
78,000 prisoners of war were forced to march- sick, exhausted, and starving 65 miles to a Japanese prison camp. 10,000 troops died on the march. -
The Doolittle raid was the charge of bombing tokyo. A military planner suggested replacing the carrier’s usual short-range bombers with long-range B-25 bombers that could attack from farther away.
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A U.S. fleet turned back a Japanese invasion force that had been heading for strategic Port Moresby in New Guinea. It prevented japan from cutting the us supply lines to australia. -
In the fall of 1943, the navy was ready to launch its island-hopping campaign, but the geography of the central Pacific posed a problem. Many of the islands were coral reef atolls. The water over the coral reef was not always deep enough to allow landing craft to get to the shore.
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It continued until early 1944, when MacArthur’s troops finally captured enough islands to surround the main Japanese base in the region. Worried that the navy’s advance across the central Pacific was leaving him behind, MacArthur ordered his forces to leap nearly 600 miles (966 km) to capture the Japanese base at Hollandia on the north coast of New Guinea. -
The largest naval battle in history. Japan naval forces ambushed the us fleet before retreating