hitler is dead! so now what????. japanese captured hong kong, french indochina, malaya, burma,...
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Hitler is dead! So now
what????
Japanese captured Hong Kong, French Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Thailand,
New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines,
Guam, Wake Island, part of Aleutian islands.
After Pearl Harbor...
Coral Sea
May ‘42
Result: Australia’s saved
U.S. victory
1st battle where carriers do most of fighting
(not battleships)
Crew of the USS Lexington
abandoning ship
June ‘42
NW of Hawaii
4 Japanese aircraft
carriers & 100s of “zeros”
destroyed1st major Japanese defeat
Hiryu on fire & drifting
after attack by US carrier
Air Forces
US Strategy in Pacific Theater?
Capture key
islands, build
bases, & surround
Japan
Goal: Cut off
supplies
‘42
Adm. Chester Nimitz: Pacific Zone
Gen. Douglas MacArthur: SW Pacific
Japan began to build airfield here to invade
Australia
10,000 marines sent to take island & stop them
Aug 7, ‘42
1st U.S. marines land on Guadalcanal
ENEMY: daily conditions
Poisonous insects
Scorching heat & humidity
Tropical fevers (malaria & dysentery)
25,000 Japanese dead
Fight to the death!
Lasted 6 months
Showed they could be beaten, but it would be
BLOODY
1st major territorial loss for Japanese
Sullivan brothers
US lost 2 cruisers, 7 destroyers, & 1600
men
Japan takes
Manila in ‘42
US & Filipino troops surrender, but...
Bataan Death March
...must march from
Bataan Peninsula: 65 miles!!
I shall return!
I make a promise! Who am I?
Biggest naval battle in history (282 ships)
June ‘44
USS Indiana Firing on Japanese positions on
Leyte
Kamikaze (Divine Wind)
pilots 1st usedPilots who
crashed into US ships
with bomb-loaded planes
MacArthur returns Oct 20,
‘44
American flag being raised at
Mt. Suribachi
Feb. ‘45
750 miles from
Japan
No Japanese survivors!
Fight fromunderground
tunnels!
Kill 10 USsoldiers before
you are!
Launch 110,000 Marines & 880 warships to island
Bombed island for 2 months
before sending in Marines
No front linesU.S. Weapons of
choice: Liquid gas, Napalm, & grenades
U.S. rarely saw Japanese soldiers
Another U.S. victory
350 miles
South of Japan
April ‘45
Bloodiest island fight in Pacific
Knowing what you do now about how
the Japanese defended these
islands, what can you deduce about the end of the war
in the Pacific?