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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,

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1 Hitler is dead! So now what????

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3 Japanese captured Hong Kong, French Indochina, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, part of Aleutian islands. After Pearl Harbor...

4 Coral Sea May ‘42

5 Result: Australia’s saved U.S. victory 1st battle where carriers do most of fighting (not battleships)

6 Crew of the USS Lexington abandoning ship

7 June ‘42 NW of Hawaii

8 4 Japanese aircraft carriers & 100s of “zeros” destroyed 1st major Japanese defeat

9 Hiryu on fire & drifting after attack by US carrier Air Forces US Strategy in Pacific Theater?

10 Capture key islands, build bases, & surround Japan Goal : Cut off supplies

11 ‘42 Adm. Chester Nimitz: Pacific Zone

12 Gen. Douglas MacArthur: SW Pacific

13 Japan began to build airfield here to invade Australia

14 10,000 marines sent to take island & stop them Aug 7, ‘42

15 1st U.S. marines land on Guadalcanal

16 ENEMY: daily conditions Poisonous insects Scorching heat & humidity Tropical fevers (malaria & dysentery)

17 25,000 Japanese dead Fight to the death! Lasted 6 months

18 Showed they could be beaten, but it would be BLOODY 1st major territorial loss for Japanese

19 Sullivan brothers US lost 2 cruisers, 7 destroyers, & 1600 men

20 Japan takes Manila in ‘42 US & Filipino troops surrender, but...

21 Bataan Death March...must march from Bataan Peninsula: 65 miles !!

22 I shall return! I make a promise! Who am I?

23 Biggest naval battle in history (282 ships) June ‘44

24 USS Indiana Firing on Japanese positions on Leyte

25 Kamikaze (Divine Wind) pilots 1st used Pilots who crashed into US ships with bomb- loaded planes

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27 MacArthur returns Oct 20, ‘44

28 American flag being raised at Mt. Suribachi Feb. ‘45 750 miles from Japan

29 No Japanese survivors! Fight from underground tunnels! Kill 10 US soldiers before you are!

30 Launch 110,000 Marines & 880 warships to island Bombed island for 2 months before sending in Marines

31 No front lines U.S. Weapons of choice: Liquid gas, Napalm, & grenades U.S. rarely saw Japanese soldiers

32 Another U.S. victory

33 350 miles South of Japan April ‘45 Bloodiest island fight in Pacific

34 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?

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