Guadalcanal Campaign

World War II consisted of constant battles & campaigns that were nearly impossible to keep track of. To top it off, the war also had many causes for why it started to begin with. The war was between the Allied & Axis Powers. While this whole thing happened the Holocaust was also happening. The Powers had conflicting ideas & due to that it caused war. First, the causes of the war consisted of many things but some are more important than others. One such cause was the Treaty of Versailles in…

and Glenn Frazier are primarily portrayed throughout the episode. Phillips, a young man out of Mobile, Alabama, was one of the many soldiers who enlisted, left his family behind, and fought in gruesome battles. Phillips was involved in the Guadalcanal Campaign, fighting Japanese soldiers in terrible conditions, with low ammunition and food. He and his fellow soldiers suffered without the help of an American fleet, and was consistently bombarded and ambushed my Japanese planes and troops. Frazier…

had no experience and after the Japanese fliers had been massacred at Midway, there was nobody of the same calibre to replace them. As for the naval divisions, the carriers that were destroyed were actually considered to be vital for the Pacific Campaign. All four carriers weren’t able to be entirely replaced until 1945, three years after the…

to use it to destroy what remained of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet. Why was Midway such a critical victory? First, the fact that the U.S. Navy lost one carrier at Midway, the U.S. Navy went on the offensive side. During the Guadalcanal campaign that began in the first week of August 1942. Second, the march of the Imperial Japanese Navy across the Pacific was halted at Midway and never had restarted. After Midway, Japanese had react to the Americans, and not the other way around…

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Years after World War I left Europe in shambles, the German economy in ruins and its insurmountable debt to be repaid back to France and Great Britain, Americans were feeling the brunt of the war and realizing entering it was a grave mistake. Looking ahead into the future of America and her economy, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought out ways to keep America out of another World War. Congress would then pass a law that would later be enforced by the president, it was known as the…

the summer of 1944, the allied advance in the Pacific theatre had reached the Marianas island chain. The second largest island in this chain, Saipan, lies 1,464 miles from the Japanese capital of Tokyo. With the completion of the Marshall Island campaign, US command determined that due to its proximity to the Japanese mainland, the Japanese held island of Saipan would be the next target. On 25 May, 1944, Task force 58 set sail from Hawaii to begin preparations for the assault. Strategic…

the U.S.’s wars, home and abroad, including the Revolutionary War, both World Wars, and, most recently, the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Marines have been involved in many conflicts, and played key roles in battles such as Tripoli, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal and Ichon Bay. Members of the U.S. Army wear a wide assortment of insignia. The Army logo is a white star, outlined in black and yellow, in a black rectangle. The emblem has a Roman cuirass in the center, below on unsheathed sword. A…

determined to keep the supply lines open with Australia; at the same time the Japanese were just as determined to cut them. In late October, the Japanese decide to launch a major offensive. Their goal was to gain control of Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal, eliminate the 10,000 American troops on the island and destroy all allied warships in the Solomons area. When the Japanese planned the major offensive plan, they were supported by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's Combined Fleet, which would…