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Do Now You are in your usual groups, just moved around Please get out your history notebook or in- class history notebook Please get out something to write with
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War in the Pacific: “Island Hopping” By May 1942 the Japanese controlled much of South Pacific 1943-1945: under US General Douglas MacArthur, US began an “island hopping” campaign to prepare for war with Japan GOAL: recapture some Japanese occupied islands while bypassing heavily defended ones Islands able to be used as airfields and supply bases captured to advance closer to Japanese home islands
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“Island Hopping” Route Tarawa (Gilbert Islands) Nov. 1943 Kwajalein & Eniwetok (Marshall Islands) Jan.-Feb. 1944 Saipan (Mariana Islands) June-July 1944 Guam (Mariana Islands) July-Aug. 1944 Pelelieu (Philippines) Sept.-Nov. 1944 Leyte Gulf (Philippines) Oct. 1944 Iwo Jima Feb.-March 1945 Okinawa April-June 1945
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Cost of Island Hopping Tarawa: 1,000 US and 4,800 Japanese killed Saipan: 3,400 US and 24,000 Japanese killed – Japanese civilians hid in caves and jumped off cliffs to their deaths after hearing rumors of American atrocities Philippines: 47,000 US and 300,000 Japanese killed/wounded Iwo Jima: 7,000 US and 22,000 Japanese killed Okinawa: 49,000 US and 109,000 Japanese killed/wounded
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