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Doolittles Raid
- was the first first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands -Most daring operation yet undertaken by the United States in the young Pacific War -The americans won
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Battler of the Coral Sea
-the first naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the
-The battle was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each
-the americans won -
Battle of Midway
-the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign
-turning point
-americans won -
Battle of Guadalc anal
-japaneese had a superior naval fleet in the pacific than america,
-the Japanese were harshly shoved into a long and costly retreat
-Americans won -
Iwo Jima
-it lasted 36 days
-the goal was to stop the japaneese ships so that the mainland could not get supplies.
-allies softened up teh island by bombing it for two months.
-americans won -
The Battle of Saipan
-An armada of 535 ships carrying 127,570 U. S. military personnel fought.
-If the us wanted to attack the home islands of japan they tought that the japaneese would never surrender.
-It was anticipated that america would lose one million men fighting against the japaneese because they thought japan would never surrender and fight to the last man, woman and child -
Okinawa
- the battle was part of a three point plan to win the war in the far east. -americans lost more than 10,000 men while japanese had more than 100,000 killed -the japaneese genaral Ushijima commited suicide days before america won the battle -on july second okinawa was declared secured by americans.
