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To avoid needless bloodshed; heavily defended islands were BY-PASSED. The allied slogan was, "Hit em where they aint!" Heavily defended islands were assaulted ONLY if absolutely necessary (for their airfields): Such as Iwo Jima & Okinawa.

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i believe it was the strategy of the US when attacking Japan. Of course, Patton was opposed to this. He didn't want to attack little islands around Japan first, he just wanted to go straight into the mainland.

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Japan and the US Island hopped around the Pacific.

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