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| American/phillipine in the pacific |
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| japs forced 70,000 prisoners to march up the peninsula, 600 americans were killed, 10,000 filipinos died, prisoners were forced to make train tracks |
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| both sides lost an aircraft carrier, and it was the 1st time japaneese advance had been stoped |
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| US had broken the japs code, US admiral Chester Nimitz devised a plan to negate jap firepower superiority, US destroyed 4 jap carriers/US only lost 1, US VICTORY!!!! |
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| skipping over Japaneese strongholds and capturing weaker targets, then they used them as bases, and they also cut the japs srtongholds off |
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| happened on a jungle covered island, Japs fought till death, led by MacArthur |
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| 1st major battle in the Phillipines, largest naval battle ever fought, it ended in allied victory |
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