Okinawa
Okinawa
Midway
Okinawa
The islands and bases seized in the November 1943-February 1944 Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were key to establishing airfields that would allow land based air support for the upcoming operations across the Central Pacific. The campaign began with a costly three-day battle at Tarawa, but it's seizure gave the Americans the air control that enabled them to win the Marianas Campaign the following year, and begin daily bombing of Japan.
The Battle of Chickamauga was part of the Confederate campaign aiming to the reconquest of the vital strategic points of Chattanooga and Knoxville.
Okinawa
Okinawa
Midway
Okinawa
Okinawa
Okinawa
Okinawa
Midway Island
The islands and bases seized in the November 1943-February 1944 Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were key to establishing airfields that would allow land based air support for the upcoming operations across the Central Pacific. The campaign began with a costly three-day battle at Tarawa, but it's seizure gave the Americans the air control that enabled them to win the Marianas Campaign the following year, and begin daily bombing of Japan.
The Battle of Chickamauga was part of the Confederate campaign aiming to the reconquest of the vital strategic points of Chattanooga and Knoxville.
Using the inovative "island hopping" strategy developed by General McArthur the allies went from island to island until all islands where free of Japanese forces. By the time they had cleared most of the islands the allies where thing about landing on Japan itself the casualties would have been to great. By that time the Atomic bomb had been perfected and two where dropped which forced Japan to surrender.
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