== Colin P. Kelly, Jr.== America's first hero of WW2 was shot down on December 10, 1941. He piloted a B-17 Flying Fortress and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously for his heroic actions of staying at the controls until the rest of his crew were able to bail out.
The first and biggest battle was in Japan.
Turned around the whole war in the Pacific. The Battle of Midway was America's first real victory of the war. It signalled the stopping of the Japanese advance and the beginning of the American push that eventually forced Japan to surrender.
It was the first major naval battle of the Pacific War that was an overwhelming defeat for the Japanese Navy. The US Navy lost one aircraft carrier but Japan lost four of its' six main fleet carriers. It was also the turning point of the war in the Pacific, Japan was always on the defensive after Midway.
The Battle of Guadalcanal was a turning point in the Pacific War. It marked the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Japanese Empire and resulted in a strategic victory for the Allies. The battle ended Japan's expansion in the Pacific and forced them to adopt a defensive strategy for the rest of the war. This shift in momentum proved crucial in the ultimate defeat of Japan.
The world war ended in the pacific coast of Japan after the US dropped atomic bombs first on Hiroshima, then a few days later on Nagasaki, cities of the Japanese Mainland. Japan surrendered on August 11, 1945, but the peace treaty was not sighed till September 2, 1945
it's not the British but American who attacked Japan by launching atomic bombs in Japan in which the first is in Hiroshima Japan.
The rising threat of Japan
The rising threat of Japan
The U.S. Pacific Fleet
The first and biggest battle was in Japan.
Alaska and Japan.
The Battle of Guadalcanal .
To bomb Pearl Harbor. This triggered the War.
Lieutenant William T. Fitzsimons is considered the first American officer killed in the war.
over 140,000 people and children were killed in Heroshima, Japan
Crispus Attucks was the first person killed during the American Revolutionary War. He was killed during the Boston Massacre.
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