This
action in order to prevent the United States to obstruct Japan
southward offensive in Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands colonial plan with the United States in the case of the
Philippines, the resources, and now the Japanese have been at sea build
good preparation of the attack, the rush to build-up yourself in the
hands of the troops toorganization plans of the enemy, I wish you good
luck !
December seventh, 1941: the
surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first
hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over.
By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the
coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan.
Poster commemorating the attack, 1942 Behind them they left chaos, 2,403
dead, 188 destroyed planes and a crippled Pacific Fleet that included 8
damaged or destroyed battleships. In one stroke the Japanese action
silenced the debate that had divided Americans ever since the German
defeat of France left England alone in the fight against the Nazi
terror.
Approximately three hours later, Japanese planes began a day-long attack
on American facilities in the Philippines. (Because the islands are
located across the International Dateline, the local Philippine time was
just after 5 AM on December 8.) Farther to the west, the Japanese
struck at Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand in a coordinated attempt to
use surprise in order inflict as much damage as quickly as possible to
strategic targets.
In
the Pacific War of World War II, the Japanese army to crush the
US-Philippine military and the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, grab the
resource-rich colonies, to later attack the Dutch East Indies and
Australia to create favorable conditions for the implementation of the
strategic battle, and quicklyto prevent the Japanese attack, and I wish
you success!
On 15th of October 1944, the
US 7th Fleet & Transport head for the Philippines over 700 ships.
Aboard more than 200,000 men of the US Sixth Army under the command of
General Douglas MacArthur,who must deliver the one two punch to liberate
the Philippines,this is part of his famous promise " I SHALL RETURN ".
The
Japanese defense forces have tens of thousands of the congregation, our
military must be put into a superior force, the implementation of a
wide front landing, in order to rapidly advance, so we selected the
Saipan landing on, in order to the success of the landing, the rush to
build-you fast landing troops who know will not be dark and dreary, I
wish you good luck!
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Seven American battleships and 11 destroyers shelled Saipan and Tinian
for 2 days before the landings, firing 15,000 16-inch and 5-inch shells
at the islands along with 165,000 other shells of other caliber. To even
begin to comprehend the magnitude of this onslaught, one needs to
realize that a single 16-inch round weighs slightly more than a
Volkswagen Beetle, besides being packed with high explosives. On the
second day of the bombardment, this force was joined by 8 more
battleships, 6 heavy cruisers and 5 light cruisers. The islands were
ringed by American warships with their guns blazing. Shells rained down
on the island, its villages, inhabitants, and defenders, gouging huge
craters in the sand and coral. The earth trembled under the tremendous
explosions of naval bombardment and simultaneous air attacks.
The main invasion force landed along 4 miles of beach at Chalan Kanoa.
Twenty-eight U. S. tanks were destroyed the first day alone. The
Japanese positioned colored flags in the lagoon to mark the range of the
landing force and to register their howitzers on the invaders from
locations behind Mount Fina Susu, and their shell fire rained down on
the advancing American force every 15 seconds in a deadly cauldron of
exploding steel. By nightfall of the first day, the Second Marine
Division had sustained 2,000 casualties. The fighting continued until
July 9th, when organized resistance on Saipan ceased. When the fighting
ended, American losses on Saipan were double those suffered on
Guadalcanal. Of the 71,034 U. S. troops landed on Saipan, 3,100 were
killed, 13,100 wounded or missing in action. Out of the 31,629 Japanese
on Saipan, approximately 29,500 died as a result of the fighting, and
only 2,100 prisoners survived. Fighting between the Japanese and the
Americans was by no means completely mechanized; while ships, aircraft,
artillery, and tanks inflicted the largest amount of damage to the
combatants, a great deal of the fighting was hand-to-hand. Besides
machine guns, flame throwers, rifles, and pistols, deadly skirmishes
were fought with bayonets, swords, bamboo spears, clubs, stones and
fists.
The ratio of battle dead was 9.5:1 during the 24 days of fighting. Place
names given the rugged Saipan terrain such as Death Valley, Purple
Heart Ridge and Harakiri Gulch testified to the bitter fighting. One of
the most lamentable events of the battle for Saipan involved the mass
suicide of hundreds of families, many of whom jumped to their deaths
from the high cliffs at the island's northernmost point. This tragic
event could not be stopped, despite efforts by Americans and indigenous
Saipanese using loudspeakers to try to convince the Japanese that
surrender would be. (Navy Site Online)
This
is the first battle of Guadalcanal Battle, also known as "the first
time Solomon naval battle, both warships and troops have been assembled,
rush to the command of the troops of their own hands to resist the
enemy's attack, the battle the victory will be leading the cornerstone
of the victory in the battle of Guadalcanal, and good luck!
August 1942, the Battle of
Midway has torn the heart out of the Japanese Empire. Siezing on the
opertunity the United States and Australia undertake the first major
offensive operation of the Pacific War: Operation: Watchtower, a mission
that would go down in history as the Battle of Guadalcanal. Among the
task force embarking on the mission was the New Orleans Class Heavy
Crusier USS Quincy.
At first it seemed as though the mission would be over in a few days,
yet that night the Quincy whileon rutine patrol with three other
Cruisers would find themselves facing down the guns of 8 warships of the
Japanese 8th Fleet, in a night long battle that would go down in
history as the worst defeat in the history of the US Navy during the
Second World War: The First Battle of Savo Island, the Quincy was soon
reduced to a flamming hulk having wondered into the crossfire of the
Japanese Cruisers Aoba, Furutaka, and Tenry%u016B before plunging into
the abyss, the first ship lost in an area that would come to be known as
Ironbottom Sound, taking with her 370 of her 807 crew, including her
commanding officer Capt. Samuel Moore
World
War II during the Pacific War, the U.S. attack on the Japanese
Strategic opener, and quickly take advantage of the Japanese also did
not react when assembled good your troops to give them a surprise, so
can effectively avoid the army's casualties I wish you good luck!
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World
War II the United States and Japan, the most bloody and fierce battle
broke out in the Pacific on the battlefield, the high rate of casualties
on both sides, you have to be more careful, the offensive pressure may
be stronger than ever, ready to rush to the threat of war, I wish you
good luck!
Japan seized the Palau
Islands, along with the rest of Micronesia, from Germany in World War I.
Receiving a mandate from the League of Nations after the war, Japan
established its administrative headquarters for Micronesia at Koror, the
capital of the Republic of Palau today. On Peleliu Island, thirty miles
south of Koror, a phosphate crushing plant was established and, by
World War II, an excellent airfield had been constructed. When war came,
the Palaus served as a staging area and replacement depot for Japan's
forces in the Netherlands, East Indies, and New Guinea.
The battle for Peleliu Island, the Gateway to the Philippines, was the
longest and one of the most hard-fought battles in the entire Central
Pacific amphibious operations of World War II. In contrast to earlier
combats where the Japanese had vainly attempted to annihilate the enemy
on the beaches, Peleliu's defenses were organized with the main line of
resistance established inland, artillery and mortar fire registered on
the beaches, and defenses skillfully arranged in depth in order to
sustain resistance to an attack while destroying the enemy. Although the
crack Japanese troops lost the battle, their new tactics enabled them
to inflict heavy losses on American Marine and Army forces and to hold
out for 74 days. While some strategists have argued that the capture of
Peleliu was not a necessary preliminary for the coming struggle in the
Philippines, brave men bled and died in the Palaus for their beliefs and
their loyalties. Peleliu marked the conclusion of the Central Pacific
drive toward the Philippines. A new phase of the Pacific War was already
underway.
