WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE PACIFIC OCEAN THEATER OF WWII
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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Battle of Guadacanal
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Battle of Britain
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Detailed explanation-1: -By the time the Japanese abandoned Guadalcanal six months later, they called it the Island of Death. To war correspondent Ralph Martin and the troops who fought there, it was simply “hell.” Guadalcanal marked Japan’s first defeat on land, but not its last.
Detailed explanation-2: -Australian land forces defeated Japanese Marines in New Guinea at the Battle of Milne Bay in September 1942, which was the first land defeat suffered by the Japanese in the Pacific.
Detailed explanation-3: -Deprived of useful air cover, and after several hours of shocked indecision, Yamamoto called off the Midway operation and retreated. The Japanese navy never fully recovered from its losses. Six months after it began, the great Japanese Pacific War offensive was over.
Detailed explanation-4: -The American success at Midway was a major victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy. All four Japanese carriers, Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, and Soryu, had participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor.