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Allied forces captured a few strategic pacific islands from the Japanese and then used those reclaimed islands as bases from which to advance the remaining targets

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The united stats used the strategy island hopping to?

to get closer to japan


What was the name of the strategy used for capturing strategic pacific?

island hopping


To fight Japanese the United States used the strategy of?

island hopping


What strategy was used by the us in the pacific ocean during WW2?

Island hopping


Who was the mastermind of the island-hopping strategy used by the allies in the Pacific?

Admiral Nimitz .


What key strategy was used by the US against the Japanese in the Pacific in order to retake territory?

The strategy was known as island hopping.


Why did the US use island hopping strategy used in the Pacific?

to move closer to the Japanese mainland


What military strategy was used in the pacific?

the strategy of "island hopping" was used by the United States in the Pacific theater of world war two. Thought of by Douglas MacArthur, "island hopping" was a strategy that used the technique of jumping from island to island on a chain to control the chain as a whole vs attacking all the islands at once. This helped establish air base's on islands in order to conduct further operations and expand supply lines to more islands. Actually, both Nimitz and MacArthur based their Island Hopping on Plan Orange created by a joint war college of the War Department and Navy Department for action in the Western Pacific in the 1930s.


The unites states used the strategy of island hopping to apex?

move closer to the Japanese mainland. apex


What important strategy was used by the American forces in the Pacific?

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


The Unites States used the strategy of island hopping to?

move closer to the Japanese mainland.


Define island hopping?

Island hopping During World War 2, Allied strategy of capturing Japenese held islands to gain control of the Pacific. Island hopping was a strategy used in the Pacific theater whereby selected islands were secured by allied forces (usually the marines). Usually, these islands would have some strategic value (like an airfield or anchorage) which helped to move the fight closer to Japan. Many islands were bypassed because of significant Japanese defenses. As we "hopped" from island to island, we were able to shorten the distance to Japan and establish forward land bases for supply purposes.