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Japanese also attacked the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.
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Japanese reaches around Singapore and advances to Thailand.
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Includes Yorktown
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Results in the Japanese damaging the oil refinery.
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USS Houston sunk. Only three survived today.
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War Relocation Authority established in the U.S. which eventually will round up 120,000 Japanese-Americans and transport them to barb-wired relocation centers. Despite the internment, over 17,000 Japanese-Americans sign up and fight for the U.S. in World War II in Europe, including the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in U.S. history.
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78,000 troops which is one of the largest amount of soldiers to ever surrender.
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Turning point in the war occurs with a decisive victory for the U.S. against Japan in the Battle of Midway as squadrons of U.S. torpedo planes and dive bombers from ENTERPRISE, HORNET, and YORKTOWN attack and destroy four Japanese carriers, a cruiser, and damage another cruiser and two destroyers. U.S. loses YORKTOWN.
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Three engagements resulted three kates and three zeros.
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sinking of the Carrier wasp
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Japanese attacked at the U.S. Pacific fleet
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Japan's Dive bomber explodes above Enterprises's radar during the Eastern Solomons.
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Eighteen fighters then locates and shoots Yamamoto down.
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A Japanese submarine sinks the Australian hospital ship CENTAUR resulting in 299 dead.
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John F. Kennedy sunken by the Japanese Cruiser Amagiri, killing two and injuring others.
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Air raid countering Japanese bases by U.S. planes.
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U.S. Tenth Army completes its capture.
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