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Doolittle Raid
- Led by Lieutenant Colonel James H Doolittle
- Air raid on Japanese homefront
- Doolittle led a fleet of 16 B-25s
- Japanese high command was embarassed and exicuted all three airmen they had captured.
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Coral Sea
-battle was fought from May 4 to May 8 in 1942
-First batlle where the aircraft carriers engaged each other
- First battle where neither sides ships sighted or fired directly on the other ships
- Many ships were destroyed including the U.S.'s Lexingtong -
Midway
- Regarded as the most important Naval battle of the pacific campaign
- U.S. Navy defeated a Japanese Navy attack on the island of Midway
- The U.S. Navy inflected irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet
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Guadacanal
- Campaign lasted from August 7 to February 9, 1943
- Americans landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tugali, and Florida
- Allies intended to use them as bases
- Was a significant strategic victory by allied forces
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Saipan
-Lasted from June 15 to July 9, 1944
-involved 15 battleships
-165,000 shells were fired
-Americans came out as victors
-Tojo resigns -
Iwo Jima
-Lasted from February 19 to March 26, 1945
-Americans tried to capture three airfields
-Marines fled the beaches and were bombarded by heavy machine gun fire
-Americans again were the victors -
Okinawa
-Lasted from April 1 to June 21, 1945
-Largest amphibious attack
-Land battle lasted 82 days
-American assault is successful
