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The War in the Pacific
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Roosevelt signs declaration of war against Japan
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Japanese Advances Japan occupied/controlled the area within the grey line by the end of 1941
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Japanese Advances- Gen. MacArthur in the Philippines
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The War in the Pacific Gen. MacArthur commanded Allied forces in the Phillipines
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Doolittle’s Raid Lt. Col. Doolittle April 18, 1942
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Flight Deck of USS Hornet
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Battle of the Coral Sea SBD Dauntless Attacks!
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Battle of the Coral Sea May 1942 First battle where Air Craft Carriers engaged one another Japanese Fleet ran out of Fuel
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The Battle of Midway
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June 1942 Japanese lost 4 Air Craft carriers and 200 Pilots Americans felt they avenged the attack on Pearl Harbor
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The Battle of Midway
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The Battle of Midway- Destruction of Japanese Cruisers
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The Allies go on the Offensive
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Battle of Guadalcanal August 1942 to February 1943 Known as the Island of Death Battle for Henderson Air Strip
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Battle of Leyte Gulf October 1944 MacArthur keeps promise to free the people of the Philippines
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Iwo Jima Feb 1945 Over 20,000 Japanese killed Only 200 taken Prisoner Marines raised flag on Mt. Suribachi
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Marines rushing beach at Iwo Jima
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Air View of Iwo Jima
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Planes flying over Iwo Jima
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The Battle for Okinawa Over 100,000 Japanese soldiers died U.S. Navy suffered heavy losses because of Kamikaze attacks
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Marines at Okinawa
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Japanese Defense
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Battle for Okinawa
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The Atomic Bomb
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The Manhattan Project 1 st Bomb test in Alamogordo, NM
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The A-Bomb was lifted 100 ft. in the air before detonation
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Otto Frisch The Creators
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Alamogordo Test Site
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Official Bombing Order July 25, 1945
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Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY
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The Enola Gay
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Little Boy-Dropped on Hiroshima
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Hiroshima Before
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Hiroshima Cloud
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Hiroshima After
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Fat Man-Dropped on Nagasaki
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Nagasaki Before
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Nagasaki Cloud
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Nagasaki After
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Radiation Symbol
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Japanese Surrender Party
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Surrender signed on USS Missouri
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Emperor Hirohito
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General MacArthur
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MacArthur Leads Occupation of Japan
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POW’s in Japan Liberated
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MacArthur & Hirohito
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