War against Japan WWII

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    War With Japan WWII

  • Pearl Harbor was Attacked my Japanese Rebels

  • First Japanese Planes land in Luzon, Philippenes

  • Main landing of Japanese planes in Luzon, Philippenes

  • Wake Island surrenders and Americans withdraw to Bataan, Philippines

  • Japanese land in New Dutch, Indonesia

  • Japanese bomb New Guinea

  • Japanese land in Sumatra

  • Japanese land in Bali

  • Battle of Java Sea, Allied naval forces are defeated

    Allied navies suffered a disastrous defeat by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 27 February 1942. The American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) Strike Force commander, Dutch Rear-Admiral Karel Doorman, was killed. The Allied forces engaged the Japanese in the Java Sea, and the battle occurred from mid-afternoon to midnight as the Allies tried to reach and attack the troop transports of the Java invasion fleet, but they were turned around by lots of firepower.

  • Japanese land on Java

  • Bataan surrenders, Major American defeat

  • Doolittle Raid on Tokyo

  • Tulagi-Moresby Operation, Battle of Coral Sea

  • Attack & Surrender of Corregidor

  • Battle of Midway (Naval). Major Japanese defeat.

    Between June 4 and 7, 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, leaving lots of damage on the Japanese fleet that could not be repaired.

  • Japanese land at Buna, New Guinea

  • 1st Marine Division lands on Guadalcanal

  • Naval battle of Savo Island

    The Imperial Japanese Navy, sent a task force of seven cruisers and one destroyer under the command of Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa after responding to the landing of Allied forces in the area. The task forces sailed from Japanese bases in New Britain and New Ireland down New Georgia Sound hoping to interrupt the Allied landings by attacking the supporting fleet and its force. Due to fear, Mikawa decided to withdraw under cover of night rather than try to destroy the Allied invasion transports.

  • First U.S. Aircraft land on Guadalcanal

  • Naval battle of the Eastern Solomons

    After several damaging air attacks, the naval surface combatants from both America and Japan withdrew from the battle area without either side securing a clear victory. However, the U.S. and its allies gained tactical and strategic advantage. Japan's losses were greater and included dozens of aircraft and their experienced aircrews.Japanese reinforcements were delayed, giving the Allies more time to prepare for the Japanese counterattacks.

  • Australians stop Japanese offensive against Port Moresby, New Guinea

  • Naval battle of Cape Esperance

    A U.S force of four cruisers and five destroyers,under the command of Rear Admiral Norman Scott, intercepted Gotō's force, taking the Japanese by surprise. Scott's warships sank one of Gotō's cruisers and one of his destroyers, damaged, another wounded Gotō, and forced the rest of Gotō's warships to withdraw. During fire, one of Scott's destroyers was sunk and one cruiser and another destroyer. The Japanese supply unloaded at Guadalcanal and began its return journey unseen.

  • Naval battle of Santa Cruz

    Allied ships were forced to retreat from the battle with one carrier sunk and another damaged. The participating Japanese forces also retired because of high losses plus carrier damage.The Japanese had lost several aircrew, ships, etc. The high casualties for the Japanese prevented their carrier forces from further involvement in the battle for Guadalcanal, adding to the eventual Allied victory in that campaign.

  • 1st Naval Battle for Guadalcanal

  • 1st Naval Battle for Guadalcanal

  • Naval battle of Tassafaronga

    A US warship force of cruisers and destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral Carleton H. Wright attempted to surprise and destroy a Japanese warship force of eight destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral Raizo Tanaka. The Japanese torpedoes hit and sank one US cruiser and damaged three others, letting the rest of Tanaka's force to escape without a lot of damage but also without finishing the supply delivery mission. The Japanese were unable to strategically take advantage of the victory

  • New Guinea secured by Allies

  • Japanese complete withdrawal from Guadalcanal

  • Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto dies

  • Americans land at New Georgia, Solomons

  • Australians capture Lae, New Guinea

  • Americans land at Bougainville, Solomons

  • 2nd US Marine Division lands on Tarawa

  • Amphibious assault of Kwajalein

  • U.S. fleet raids Truk Atoll

  • Amphibious invasion of Eniwetok

  • U.S. fleet raids Truk Atoll

  • Americans land on Saipan

  • Battle of the Philippine Sea (Naval)

    The battle appeared to be a missed opportunity to destroy the Japanese fleet, the Imperial Japanese Navy had lost the majority of its carrier air strength and would never recover. During the course of the battle, American submarines torpedoed and sank two of the largest Japanese fleet carriers taking part in the battle.

  • 1st Marine Division lands on Peleliu

  • Americans land on Leyte Island, Philippines

  • Naval battle of Leyte Gulf

    United States troops invaded the island of Leyte as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) moved nearly all of its remaining major naval vessels in an attempt to defeat the Allied invasion but was blocked by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th Fleets. The IJN failed to achieve its mission, suffered heavy losses, and never sailed to battle in comparable force thereafter.

  • First B-29 raid against Tokyo

  • First Kamikazes (Philippines)

  • Americans land on Luzon Island, Philippines

  • Amphibious assault of Iwo Jima begins

  • Last Japanese resistance in Manila ends

  • First Allied Fire Bombing on Japan (Tokyo)

  • Allied invasion of Okinawa

  • Japanese battleship Yamato sunk

  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies

  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan

    The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb was called "Little Boy", a uranium bomb that exploded with about thirteen kilotons of force.The bombing of Hiroshima, was code-named Operation Centerboard, and was approved by Curtis LeMay on August 4, 1945. The plane that carried Little Boy from the western Pacific to Hiroshima was known as the Enola Gay, after pilot Paul Tibbets' mother.

  • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan

    There was a second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, a kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.” Its use was decided to indicate that the United States had an endless supply of the new weapon for use against Japan and that the United States would continue to drop atomic bombs on Japan until the country surrendered unconditionally.

  • Emperor Hirohito announces surrender of Japan