Recovery and Victory of the Allies The stunning defeat inflicted on the Japanese Navy at Midway in June 1942 caused the American Joint Chiefs of Staff to order the adoption of a more aggressive policy for the South and Southwest Pacific. The overextension of the Japanese in their widespread operations made this policy feasible. The [...]
Allies Recover
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Guadalcanal Campaign
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Guadalcanal Campaign Japanese troops and construction personnel had landed on the north shore of Guadalcanal on July 6, 1942, and had begun to develop an airfield and a base for subsequent operations. The American objective was to seize these installations and drive the invaders from the island. Vice Adm. Robert L. Ghormley, commander of the [...]
Papuan Campaign
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Papuan Campaign The offensive in New Guinea, which General MacArthur had been ordered to launch simultaneously with the Guadalcanal offensive, was to start from Port Moresby and was designed to drive the Japanese from the northeast coast of the island. A Japanese amphibious force sent to capture Port Moresby had been turned back in May [...]
Operations in 1943
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Operations in 1943 By the beginning of 1943, with their victories on Guadalcanal and in Papua, the Allies had definitely wrested the initiative from the Japanese in the South and Southwest Pacific areas. Since the preponderance of Allied resources in the Pacific theater were devoted to these operations, little could be done in the Central [...]
The Philippines
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Approach to the Philippines As 1944 dawned, Allied advances in the Solomons and New Guinea had virtually isolated the Japanese base at Rabaul; it appeared that the dreaded assault on this strongly fortified position would not be necessary. Toward the end of 1943, tremendous gains in aircraft and naval construction in the United States had [...]