'Island Hopping'
They were fighting against Nazi control of the European mainland as well as against Japanese influence within the Pacific theatres of war .
The capture of the airfields that the Japanese had built upon the island were important to the Allies because it would have prevented interdiction of the Japanese air-forces on Allied supply lines/shipping and the airfields , in Allied hands , were of strategic importance to the Allied strategy of 'Island Hopping' although USMC General H.M."Howlin Mad" Smith felt it was an island of limited importance and could be bypassed leaving the Japanese there stranded on the island and essentially out of the war .
Leyte Gulf
Yalta
Chan Kai-Shek was the leader of Nationalist Cina, which had been fighting against the Japanese since 1937, but which only officially became allied in 1941.
"Island-Hopping" .
Island Hopping
the british were allied with the Americans and Russians in wwii so they were against the Germans and Japanese mostly
Allied forces captured a few strategic pacific islands from the Japanese and then used those reclaimed islands as bases from which to advance the remaining targets
The Japanese successfully invaded the Philippines. Three years later the Allied Forces arrived and defeated the Japanese in the Philippines.
It made all of the japanese mainland damaged and couldn't fight against their opponent!
They were fighting against Nazi control of the European mainland as well as against Japanese influence within the Pacific theatres of war .
"Europe First" strategy
The capture of the airfields that the Japanese had built upon the island were important to the Allies because it would have prevented interdiction of the Japanese air-forces on Allied supply lines/shipping and the airfields , in Allied hands , were of strategic importance to the Allied strategy of 'Island Hopping' although USMC General H.M."Howlin Mad" Smith felt it was an island of limited importance and could be bypassed leaving the Japanese there stranded on the island and essentially out of the war .
Sicily
Leyte Gulf
Yalta