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2 days ago · The Second World War was a truly global conflict, but it was in the Pacific theater that the United States faced perhaps its most daunting challenge. From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Pacific War tested American resolve like no other conflict before or since.
1 day ago · The Battle of Okinawa (Japanese: 沖縄戦, Hepburn: Okinawa-sen), codenamed Operation Iceberg,: 17 was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
1 day ago · World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between ...
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5 days ago · Bong, who grew up in Poplar, Wisconsin, is credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II. He plastered a blow-up of Vattendahl’s portrait on the nose of his plane, according to a Pacific Wrecks summary of the plane’s service. Bong shot down more planes than any other American pilot.
3 days ago · In December 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, destroying much of the American Pacific fleet. The U.S. declared war on Japan the following day. Germany and Italy then declared war on the U.S., bringing America fully into the conflict.
5 days ago · The Japanese landed on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, initiating one of the most iconic battles of World War II. This invasion was a critical moment in the war, as the island's strategic location ...
6 days ago · By the end of the war US factories had produced 300,000 planes, and by 1944 had produced two-thirds of the Allied military equipment used in the war [citation needed] — bringing military forces into play in North and South America, the Caribbean, the Atlantic, Western Europe and the Pacific.
