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island hopping
One of the allied commanders of the Pacific fleet was General Douglas MacArthur. Another allied commander was Admiral William Halsey.
Island hopping, also called leapfrogging, was an important military strategy in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The strategy was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan
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The Supreme Allied Commander of the European theater was General Dwight D Eisenhower. The Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific theater was General Douglas MacArthur.
"Island-Hopping" .
island hopping in the pacific
To by pass the islands and not fight for every island
Only islands that were not well defended.
The Allied Naval Forces went after the Japanese island by island in the South Pacific. That strategy was called island hopping. Admiral Chester Nimitz was in charge of the Pacific Theater naval actions. So he earned the name Island Hopper.
The strategy was known as island hopping.
island hopping
The Allied goal in the Pacific was to obtain the unconditional surrender of Japan.
One of the allied commanders of the Pacific fleet was General Douglas MacArthur. Another allied commander was Admiral William Halsey.
Island hopping, also called leapfrogging, was an important military strategy in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The strategy was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan
"Europe First" strategy
Yalta