it helped pave the way for a later all-out offensive
Yes. 76,000 Allied Troops surrendered to the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9th, 1942.
Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle
Yes, Doolittle's bombing raid over Tokyo raised hopes for an American victory in the Pacific. The bombing raid occurred on April 18, 1942. The US survivors landed in China.
September 13, 1942
The US fought against Nazi Germany, beginning in 1941 after Pearl Harbor when Roosevelt declared war on Japan the next day Germany declared war on the US. The US also fought against Japan in the Pacific on the islands like Midway and Guam as well as the Philippines. The War ended in 1945 with the surrender of Japan after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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helped pave the way for a later all-out offensive
The USSR and Britain were fighting against Germany in 1942
In 1942 the Royal Air Force, USAAF and RCAF were heavily engaged in bombing Germany. Basically the Americans mounted huge daily bombing raids and the British and Canadians bombed at night.
Bombing of Tokyo happened in 1942.
Germany started to do night raids in the Spring of 1942, In the city of London during The Battle of Britan.
In WWII, the first real attack of the Japanese on an Australian base occurred with the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942. That attack scattered the naval base at Darwin and demoralised Australians. However, Darwin was bombed by the Japanese a total of sixty times between 19 February 1942 and 12 November 1943.For more information, see the link below.
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The first air raids on Germany took place in 1940. However, the heavy Allied air-raids on Germany started in April 1942 and continued till 1945.
Allied Bank Limited was created in 1942.
Britain
Bombing of Lübeck in World War II happened in 1942.