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Not only were the British army dismissive of the idea that the Japanese would launch attacks, when the news broke out, they were convinced that Japanese armies would assault from the sea and accordingly distributed forces to the coasts. This lead to a lack of armies and forces on the the island’s north-east, where the Japanese militaries came from. After the loss of men in the battle at Malaya, there was an insufficient amount of soldiers and due to miscalculations, armies were spread thinly across Singapore, which proved to be ineffective to defend a large mass of Japanese

Intelligence on Unit 731 found. Undisclosed to the public. Censured from history books. Covert underground research facility for biological, nuclear, radiological, and chemical forms of warfare.

On December 7, 1941, a little before 7 a.m. Lieutenant William W. Outerbridge saw an object in the water and told his crew to fire at it. The unknown object was soon realized to be a midget Japanese submarine. This is one warning that was ignored. At 7 a.m. U.S radar picked up blips on their screens showing that aircraft was flying in. They were thought to be signals from flying fortresses that were expected to arrive at any moment from California, said Deborah Bachrach, the author. This was yet another warning that was

The fight for control of Iwo Jima lasted thirty eight days. Over that course of time the U.S. lost almost six thousand Marines with another eighteen thousand men wounded. The Japanese however lost around twenty one thousand men. This was the only battle during the war with Japan when the U.S. suffered more casualties than the Japanese. Being one of the bloodiest battles of the war, the taking of Iwo Jima served as a valuable lesson for the upcoming Okinawa campaign. In the weeks following, the battle fell under heavy scrutiny from the press and the public. Many viewed it as an unnecessary fight and loss of

The focus of this investigation will be ?To what extent was the Battle of Iwo Jima strategically important to American forces?? and will analyze the degree to which it influenced the end of the war. Whether the Battle of Iwo Jima was beneficial to American forces winning the war or not is an issue that has been debated for decades since

The battle of Chipyong-ni took place from 13-15 February 1951, in the small road hub and railway town of the same name1. The 8th Army Commander, General Ridgeway, determined that it was a key location to keep the Chinese from moving farther south to stabilize the UN front2. COL Paul Freeman, who would later become a four-star general, commanded the 23rd Infantry Regiment3. The unit recently won the battle of Twin Tunnels several miles south. “Freeman’s mission was to deny the enemy the use of the road net and hold the area” of Chipyong-ni4. Over the course of three long nights the Soldiers of the 23rd infantry regiment held back an overwhelming Chinese force, estimates from after the battle believe that there were six Chinese Communist Force (CCF) Divisions5.

The Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the most ferocious battles of the Pacific Campaign in World War II. This battle would be fought between the United States and Japan, and would begin in February 1945 and end in March 1945 causing well over 48,000 casualties of war. The main goal of this battle for the United States was to provide a tactical advantage against Japan. The seizure of this island would give the United States this advantage in victory. The Japanese reasoning would be much different, they had a legacy to withhold over 5000 years of Japans existence, no foreign Army has ever

All of these factors ultimately led to the strategy to keep the incident of Nanking a secret for years to come. Chang warns of the threats to current society, through the dangers of an unchecked government, and the overuse of power and greed. Chang points out that many people, who had seen the aftermath of the town, continually denied the fact that it even happened and came up with reasons for what might have gone on. “General Nagano Shigeto stated in an interview to Mainichi Shimbun, “I think the Nanking Massacre and the rest was a fabrication…I was in Nanking immediately afterwards. Those women claiming to be sex slaves were in fact licensed Korean prostitutes…Japan had no choice but to go to war, because it was in danger of being crushed…” (Chang 203)

On the Japanese side of intelligence, Yamamoto believed to have the element of surprise at Midway, which was thought to draw the Americans out of Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto had numerical naval superiority in the Pacific to defeat the Americans at sea but remained unaware that the code breakers ascertained its operational and strategic plan to attack at Midway. Spector argues that Japanese submarines knew the American forces were planning something at Pearl Harbor, but the intelligence was never passed on to Yamamoto. Additionally, Yamamoto believed that two of the American carriers were sunk at Coral Sea, which the Yorktown was hastily being repaired in Pearl Harbor. In reality, the Japanese had no idea where the American fleet or carriers were leading up to the Battle of Midway.

A series of Japanese codes broken by the U.S. Crytologist in 1920 revealed the country preparation for war, after decoding another of message that orders a ship to be position in Pearl Harbor (Glick). Before the raid Britain had broken Japanese codes and had key clues (Glick). They broke Japan’s diplomatic code; American officials knew about the Japan’s Embassy order to destroy its codes machines (Pearl Harbor). On October 9, 1941 the War Department decoded a Tokyo-to-Honolulu dispatch instructing the consul General to divide Pearl Harbor into five areas and to tell the exact location of American ship in that area (Perloff). The Dutch army decoded a dispatch forecasting attacks on four areas including Hawaii (Perloff). There were a lot of different Japanese codes that were cracked, warning of the Japanese going to attack on Pearl Harbor.

Some of the bloodiest fight of World War II came in the Pacific. Much of that fighting came at the Battle of Guadalcanal. A remote island in the Solomons Island chain, Guadalcanal was not thought of as important, prior to 1942. For several reasons, Guadalcanal was the most significant battle of the war in the Pacific. The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first offensive the United States took in World War II. Because of its location, Guadalcanal pushed back the Japanese defensive ring, and put the U.S. in an aggressive mindset. As an intangible factor, the victory at Guadalcanal provided a much needed morale boost to U.S. servicemen, who had not had a decisive triumph against the Japanese. Most importantly, the U.S. gained control of an important airstrip on Guadalcanal that the Japanese had been trying to utilize.

Singapore was highly protected by both the British and the Australians forces and acted as a major base for these countries. To the British it was their biggest naval base in Asia and since Britain had the most powerful Navy in the war, Singapore was seen to be impenetrable. Over 130,000 British and Empire troops defended Singapore, and then later in 1941 Australia contributed by sending over 15,000 men. However the mistake that the British made was that they were prepared and almost certain that the Japanese would attack from the sea. But on February 8th 1942, the Japanese marched on through down Malaya and surprised Singapore at the north entry and then used precise air attacks to cause widespread panic and unnerve their enemy. Singapore was overtaken in 7 days and the British surrendered on 15th February 2014. Out of the 145 000 combined soldiers in Singapore, most of them would spend the rest of the war in prison camps like Changi Prison while thousands of them were killed.

As early as January 1941, reports suggested that Japan might attack Pearl Harbor; but civilian and military officials in Washington and Hawaii ignored these reports, considering an assault on the Philippines or European territories more likely, and underestimating Japan's ability to conceal preparations for such an operation. By the summer of 1941 American leaders knew, due to the success of the magic cryptanalysis operation in breaking Japanese military operational codes that Japan was likely to take military action of some kind (Irive). Japan had only about a 12-month supply of petroleum to fuel its economy and war machine, so the Americans anticipated the Japanese would act quickly. The only questions they could not answer were when and where (Woods). Pearl Harbor had been a major naval

The island was 350 miles away from their homeland ,Kyushu, making it a easy flight.The command of this invasion force was divided between MG John R. Hodge and MajGen Roy S. Geiger. Before the invasion they had dusted the area by land bombing before invading their mainland.The Japanese was led by GEN Mitsuru Ushijima with the number of 130,00 men. Japan lost a vast number of man due to the fact they couldn’t contend with newly trained troops. They were willing to fight to the bitter end instead of calling defeat. It brung honor to their family name to die with “pride” instead of coming home defeated. Some even committed suicide.

If the American Army went ahead with a land attack on the Japanese they would have lost countless