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Allied forces captured a few strategic pacific islands from the Japanese and then used those reclaimed islands as bases from which to advance the remaining targets
"Island-Hopping" .
island hopping in the pacific
To by pass the islands and not fight for every island
The Battle of Guadalcanal was a turning point in the Pacific War. It marked the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Japanese Empire and resulted in a strategic victory for the Allies. The battle ended Japan's expansion in the Pacific and forced them to adopt a defensive strategy for the rest of the war. This shift in momentum proved crucial in the ultimate defeat of Japan.
Island Hopping
'Island Hopping'
Only islands that were not well defended.
Island hopping, also called leapfrogging, was an important military strategy in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The strategy was to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan
The Allied Naval Forces went after the Japanese island by island in the South Pacific. That strategy was called island hopping. Admiral Chester Nimitz was in charge of the Pacific Theater naval actions. So he earned the name Island Hopper.
When the US entered World War II in 1941, its strategy was to send most of its troops to the Pacific to battle Japanese forces. Later, from 1943-1945 the US led the allied war effort in Europe.