August 7, 1942 - February 9, 1943 with the Battle of Guadalcanal .
US was attacking in the island hopping campaign, not Japan. Japan was defending. Island hopping started midway, and went through Iwo Jima, Tarawa, and so on. again, US was attacking.
Island Hopping
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Blitzkrieg , Island-Hopping , carpet bombing , purposely fire bombing civilians , naval battles where aircraft fought the naval battles as opposed to ships at sea exchanging gunfire , the use of paratroopers ,
Once we crippled the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Philippine Sea, we Island Hopped, which was us, as the U.S. going from Japanese-owned island to Japanese-owned island and retaking them. The Japanese could not properly stop us after the battle.
US was attacking in the island hopping campaign, not Japan. Japan was defending. Island hopping started midway, and went through Iwo Jima, Tarawa, and so on. again, US was attacking.
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.
Chester Nimitz .
The Pacific campaign against the Japanese consisted of "island hopping" where one island, or chain of islands, was taken at a time. Once an island was taken that was close enough to launch bombing raids from, the Japanese mainland was firebombed by Allied aircraft.
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Island hopping. (In NovaNET: "leap frogging")
Island Hopping
Island hopping was a strategy for gaining ground in the Pacific during World War II. The plan was to take control of an island, then jump to the next one. Eventually, this allowed the US to get close enough to Japan to bomb them repeatedly.
Island Hopping
During World War II, the American strategy in the Pacific against the Japanese became known as 'island-hopping.' Through this approach to defeating their enemy, the U.S. military by-passed (or, hopped over) Japanese strong-points for the sake of securing selected islands elsewhere. These islands, once occupied, would then serve as forward bases for the next 'hop' forward -- closer to Japan itself.