1. Pacific Theatre

3. The Effects of Pearl Harbor
Tactical Success…
Operational and Strategic failure…

4. The Fall of the Phillipines

5. Bataan Death March

7. Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942)
Battle of Aircraft carriers…
American and Australian Navies defend an attack near Australia…

8. Battle of Midway (June 1942)
Japanese try to trap the U.S. navy…
Worst naval defeat in Japanese History…
Turning point of the war in the Pacific…

10. China-Burma-India Chiang Kai-Shek… Lt. General Joseph Stillwell…
British…
U.S….

12. Field Marshall William Slim
Merrill’s Marauders

14. Twin Drives

15. Operation Cartwheel

16. “Island Hopping”
Capturing strategic Japanese controlled islands while bypassing the rest…
Trying to quickly advance to get Japan within range of U.S. bombers…

17. Phillipines (October 1944)
American forces had been forced out in 1942…
General Douglas MacArthur had claimed “I Shall Return”

18. Leyte Gulf
Crossing the T

20. Iwo Jima (February – March 1945)
In 5,000 years of history, Japanese soil had never been invaded…
Japanese dig into the volcanic rock 1,500 rooms and 16 miles of tunnels
They planned not to survive and to inflict such heavy losses on the U.S. that an invasion of Japan would not happen…

24. Okinawa (April – June 1945)
More than 250 U.S. ships damaged by Kamikaze - “Divine Wind”….
Their determination proved that the Japanese would not surrender…

25. Operation Cornet: The Plan to Invade Japan