WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This practice-skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance-became known as island hopping. As Japanese strongholds were isolated, defenders were left to weaken from starvation and disease.

Detailed explanation-2: -The books were read not only by Americans but by senior officers of the Japanese Imperial Navy, who used “island-hopping” in their successful southeast Asia offensives in 1941 and 1942.

Detailed explanation-3: -Island hopping was a military strategy of capturing only certain Japanese islands in the Pacific and bypassing others, leading to the Japanese mainland.