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The Pacific Theater In 1942 The History Of The Decisive Campaigns And Battles That Helped America Turn The Tide Of World War Ii Charles River Editors

Name: The Pacific Theater In 1942 The History Of The Decisive Campaigns And Battles That Helped America Turn The Tide Of World War Ii Charles River Editors
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The Pacific Theater In 1942 The History Of The Decisive Campaigns And Battles That Helped America Turn The Tide Of World War Ii Charles River Editors

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Publisher: Charles River Editors

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 8.69 MB

Author: Charles River Editors

ISBN: B01MTK4NFS

Language: English

Year: 2016

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The Pacific Theater In 1942 The History Of The Decisive Campaigns And Battles That Helped America Turn The Tide Of World War Ii Charles River Editors by Charles River Editors B01MTK4NFS instant download after payment.

Those who had decoded and seen the Japanese communications in early December 1941 would not be surprised when they heard about an attack on December 7, 1941. They would, however, be astonished when they heard where that attack took place. Posted on the other side of the world, it was early on the morning of December 8 in the Philippines when American general Douglas MacArthur received news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor hours earlier. With that, it could only be a matter of time before the Japanese attacked the Philippines. Although MacArthur and Allied forces tried to hold out, they could only fight a delaying action, and the Japanese managed to subdue all resistance by the spring of 1942.
The Americans would turn the war in the Pacific around in the middle of 1942, but in the wake of Pearl Harbor and the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, the country was in desperate need of a morale boost, and it would come in the form of the Doolittle Raid. In part to show that the Japanese were not invincible, and in part to reassure the American public that the nation would not lose the war.
While the Battle of the Coral Sea is not as well known as other battles across the Pacific, it set a precedent by pitting enemy aircraft carriers against each other, a battle in which the rival navies themselves never sighted each other or fired a gun at each other. Instead, the fighting was done with the carriers’ aircraft, something that would become more common over time and would result in decisive actions at places like Midway just months later. Furthermore, while it was in a sense a tactical victory for the Japanese, it would end up helping blunt their aggressive push east in the Pacific, making it a crucial strategic victory for the Allies.
Although not as well-remembered as D-Day or even the attack at Pearl Harbor that preceded it, the
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