Island Hopping (Battle of the Pacific)
Battles in the Pacific
_ At the same time as Pearl Harbor
(Dec. 1941) the Japanese attack, Philippines, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Dutch East Indies (oil)
The Battle of Coral Seas was the first Battle where aircrafts carriers do not see each other (it was fought with aircrafts) The Battle of Midway the Japanese lose 4 carriers to U.S. 1 The process of Island hopping begins in the Pacific (Guadalcanal) The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Philippines) was the largest naval battle ever in history The Japanese lose have of their remaining fleet and 4 more carriers (kamikazes attack begin) View Pacific War and over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki. Island hopping was used by the Americans taking the main parts but leaving the unimportant islands.
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_Island Hopping
The idea behind this was to take the main island in the group and stop supplies from coming in to the smaller island and then leave who ever was there to die
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