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Pacific Theather in WWII. By Mike Hartman. Allies: United States, the British Commonwealth, France, and the Netherlands Japan Fought in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, and other Pacific islands. Fought with massive Navy warships and new high tech airplanes
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Pacific Theather in WWII By Mike Hartman
Allies: United States, the British Commonwealth, France, and the Netherlands • Japan • Fought in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, and other Pacific islands
Fought with massive Navy warships and new high tech airplanes • Island hopping strategy • Airplanes and warships were equipped with bigger weapons than any war before them
The allies started a counter offensive after Japan took over their territoriesand slowly gained back their territory • Important battles • Pearl Harbor • Coral Sea • Midway • Tarawa • Truk • Phillipine Sea • Okinawa • Iwo Jima • Over 350,000 Americans soldiers died • Over 2,100,000 Japanese soldiers died • Japan surrendered August 15th 1945