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One Allied victory during the Island Hopping battles of the Pacific Ocean was gaining control of the Solomon Islands.
Island hopping is moving around from island to island. For example, The United States military practiced island-hopping during WWII in the war in the Pacific.
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.
The Pacific islands were chosen and served as steppingstones to move north toward Japan.
They usually targeted aircraft carriers, especially during the battles at Midway and during the island hopping campaign. Pearl Harbor was the anomaly.
One Allied victory during the Island Hopping battles of the Pacific Ocean was gaining control of the Solomon Islands.
Island hopping
"Island-Hopping" .
Island hopping is moving around from island to island. For example, The United States military practiced island-hopping during WWII in the war in the Pacific.
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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.
The Pacific islands were chosen and served as steppingstones to move north toward Japan.
The Pacific islands were chosen and served as steppingstones to move north toward Japan.
They usually targeted aircraft carriers, especially during the battles at Midway and during the island hopping campaign. Pearl Harbor was the anomaly.
The Pacific was divided into two "Theaters" of Operations - the Central Pacific, and the Southwest Pacific. This was done mostly because MacArthur had retreated to Australia after Japan conquered the Philippines, and as a former commanding general of the US Army, a prestigious command had to be carved out for him. So, MacArthur commanded in the Southwest Pacific, fighting in the New Guinea area and the Philippines. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz commanded in the Central Pacific, from his HQ in Hawaii, where he was also commander of the US Pacific Fleet.
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.
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.