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BATTLES AT GERMANY’S GATE 201 Dec 9 The French 1st Army and US 7th Army squeeze the German 19th Army in the so-called “Colmar Po ...
202 TURNING THE TIDE 1943–1944 Paxoi Cerigo Sikinos Peloponnesus Vis Brac Hvar Korčula Mljet Šolta Ios Naxos Mikonos Tinos Andro ...
GREECE AND YUGOSLAVIA 203 Paxoi Cerigo Sikinos Peloponnese Vis Brac Hvar Korčula Mljet Šolta Ios Naxos Mikonos Tinos Andros Paro ...
204 TURNING THE TIDE 1943 –194 4 WAR AGAINST JAPAN In 1943–1944, the Japanese ground forces suffered a succession of defeats aga ...
WAR AGAINST JAPAN 205 US strategy US command in the Pacific War was divided between General Douglas MacArthur in the south-west ...
206 TURNING THE TIDE 1943–1944 Operation Cartwheel was approved by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt and British prime minister ...
OPERATION CARTWHEEL 207 support Allied logistics. Nevertheless, fighting throughout the campaign was intense, with the Japanese ...
208 TURNING THE TIDE 1943 –194 4 Following the Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941, t ...
US AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 209 US_208-209_F_US_marines_and_amphibious_warfare.indd 209 04/03/19 10:47 AM ...
210 TURNING THE TIDE 1943–1944 Allied map of the Pacific, 1944 This map shows the westward thrust (the red arrows) of the Allied ...
ISLAND-HOPPING IN THE PACIFIC 211 Nearly two years after entering the war, the Japanese still held most of the far-flung defensi ...
212 TURNING THE TIDE 1943–1944 ACTION ON SAIPAN JUNE 15–JULY 9, 1944 After landing on the west coast of Saipan on June 15, US fo ...
BATTLE FOR THE MARIANAS 213 THE BATTLE FOR GUAM The US attack on Guam was set back a month after the heavy Japanese resistance o ...
214 TURNING THE TIDE 1943–1944 Luzon Mindoro Palawan Panay Mindanao North Borneo Brunei Leyte Samar Pa la wa n^ Pa ss ag e Sulu ...
THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF 215 Luzon Mindoro Palawan Panay Mindanao North Borneo Brunei Leyte Samar Pa la wa n^ Pa ss ag e Sulu Se ...
216 TURNING THE TIDE 1943 –194 4 Toward the end of 1944, Japan was in a critical situation. The country had suffered catastrophi ...
KAMIKAZE TACTICS 217 Attack on USS Bunker Hill US aircraft carrier Bunker Hill blazes after being attacked by two kamikazes off ...
218 TURNING THE TIDE 1943–1944 When the Japanese invaded Burma in 1942, they stopped at the border with British India, having ac ...
THE FIGHTBACK IN BURMA 219 Intelligence gathering, Rangoon A map created by British Intelligence in April 1945 shows features of ...
220 TURNING THE TIDE 1943–1944 P A C I F I C O C E A N Yellow Sea South China Sea S e a o f J a p a n ( E a s t S e a ) Yellow ( ...
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