How many battles did America lose in world war 2?

Answer 1

Not too many. The Japanese had early success in the Pacific, capturing the Philippines and Wake Island. There weren't that many Americans in the Philippines - 80% of the defenders under MacArthur were Filipinos. A single Marine Defense Battalion was on Wake Island, and repulsed the first Japanese attempted landing, but went under when they came back a few weeks later. Pearl Harbor was a Japanese victory, of course. The Battle of the Java Sea in February 1942 was a Japanese victory, with complete annihilation of American and Allied warships - all small, and refugees from places the Japanese were attacking. The Battle of the Coral Sea by some accounts is a draw, by others a Japanese tactical victory, but the strategic victory there was American, as a Japanese invasion of New Guinea was turned back. But after May of 1942 the Japanese won no more battles, on land or sea.

In Africa the green Americans were embarrassed at Kasserine Pass. In the Ardennes Offensive ("Battle of the Bulge") the Germans gained an initial advantage and chewed up a couple of US divisions, but lost the month-long campaign, and hundreds of irreplacable tanks in the process. There were times when American troops failed to gain the objectives they were attacking for immediately, but eventually they always did.