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WWII U.S. Battles in the Pacific

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  • Pearl Harbor attacked

    Pearl Harbor attacked

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    WWII Battles in the Pacific

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    Continuing Japanese attacks at Bataan, Philippines

  • Japanese begin landing in Northern Dutch Indonesia

  • Japanese bomb New Guinea

  • Naval battle of Java Sea

  • Bataan surrenders

  • Doolittle raid on Tokyo

  • Tulagi-Moresby Operation, Battle of Coral Sea

  • Attack & Surrender of Corregidor

  • Naval battle of Midway

  • Naval battle of Savo Island

  • First U.S. Aircraft land on Guadalcanal

    First U.S. Aircraft land on Guadalcanal

    In the six months between August 1942 and February 1943, the United States and its Pacific Allies fought a brutally hard air-sea-land campaign against the Japanese for possession of the previously-obscure island of Guadalcanal.... Learn more:
    http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/guadlcnl/guadlcnl.htm

  • Naval battle of the Eastern Solomons

  • Naval battle of Cape Esperance

  • Naval battle of Santa Cruz

  • 1st Naval Battle for Guadalcanal

  • 2nd Naval Battle for Guadalcanal

  • Naval battle of Tassafaronga

  • New Guinea secured by Allies

  • Amphibious assault of Kwajalein

  • Japanese complete withdrawal from Guadalcanal

  • Americans land at New Georgia, Solomons

  • 2nd US Marine Division lands on Tarawa

  • U.S. fleet raids Truk Atoll

  • Amphibious invasion of Eniwetok

  • U.S. fleet raids Truk Atoll

  • Naval battle of the Philippine Sea

    Naval battle of the Philippine Sea

  • Naval battle of Leyte Gulf

  • First B-29 raid against Tokyo

  • First Kamikazes (Philippines)

  • Amphibious assault of Iwo Jima begins

    Amphibious assault of Iwo Jima begins

  • First Allied Fire Bombing on Japan (Tokyo)

  • Allied invasion of Okinawa

  • Japanese battleship Yamato sunk

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

  • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan

    Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan

  • Emperor Hirohito announces surrender of Japan

    Emperor Hirohito announces surrender of Japan