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Island hopping.
The Sea Bees, who were a construction arm of the army built the airfields.
The Pacific islands were chosen and served as steppingstones to move north toward Japan.
Leap frogging or island hopping was how the Allies fought the Japanese in World War II. They concentrated on a few key islands that advanced their drive to Japan. They did not try to take every island. Admiral Nimitz took the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and then the Marianas and moved towards the Bonin Islands. General MacArthur took the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and then the Philippines.
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Island hopping.
An island-hopping campaign in order to get close enough to strike Japan.
One Allied victory during the Island Hopping battles of the Pacific Ocean was gaining control of the Solomon Islands.
"Island-Hopping" .
island hopping in the pacific
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Only islands that were not well defended.
Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
It was used because the Japanese held many islands in the Pacific.
Chester W. Nimitz
The Sea Bees, who were a construction arm of the army built the airfields.
'Island Hopping'