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DOOLITTLE'S RAID
WHERE: Tokyo, Japan
• Victor: AMERICANS
• Commander: Lt. Colonel James Doolittle
• 1st attack on Japan after Pearl Harbor
proving USA was in the war, and they weren't going to loose -
Battle of the Coral Sea
Victor: Japan
• Australia was saved from Japanese invasion
• USS Lexington was hit many times & eventually ignited by gas leaks inside the ship due to hits
• 1st carrier vs. carrier battle (airplanes attacking) -
Battle of Midway
Victor: America
Americans were able to decode the time & place of planned attack
Japan's plan was to attack Fuji & Samoa
Turning point for American offense -
Guadalcanal
Victor: Americans Did not end until Feb. 1943
4 day battle in Nov. 4000 out of 10,000 Japanese returned to land
Mount Austen was taken over by America, defeated battle -
Saipan
Victor:American 13,100 Americans were wounded or missing
1,000 Japanese civilians committed suicide, thought it would give them equal spiritual status as soldiers.
Using machine guns Americans fired into caves the enemies would hide in during the day -
Iwo Jima
American victory day of invasion: D-Day
Marines were important for carrying bombs and planes
biggest armada in the Pacific -
Okinawa
Allied victory: USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand & Canada After the two atomic bomb dropping
Japan took 12 bombs
Mass suicides on civilians
