most important events in the Asia-Pacific conflict during WWII.

By epson

  • Saipan and Philippine Sea

  • Philippines

    On 20 October 1944 the U.S. Sixth Army, supported by naval and air bombardment, landed on the favorable eastern shore of Leyte, north of Mindanao. The U.S. Sixth Army continued its advance from the east, as the Japanese rushed reinforcements to the Ormoc Bay area on the western side of the island. While the Sixth Army was reinforced successfully, the U.S. Fifth Air Force was able to devastate the Japanese attempts to resupply. In torrential rains and over difficult terrain, the advance continued

  • Leyte Gulf

  • Allied offensives in Burma

  • Iwo Jima

  • Landings in the Japanese home islands

  • Liberation of Borneo

    month and date not known

  • Okinawa

  • Surrender

  • Atomic bomb