The initial move of the island-hopping campaign came in the Gilbert Islands when U.S. forces struck Tarawa Atoll. The capture of the island was necessary as it would allow the Allies to move on to the Marshall Islands and then the Marianas. Why did the United States develop the Island H...
Ultimately, the island hopping campaign was successful. It allowed the US to gain control over sufficient islands in the Pacific to get close enough to Japan
however, significantly reduced the striking power of the Imperial Fleet. Fiji was an important support base for the Matines on Guadalcanal and the ompletion of the of Solomons CArtwheel campaign drawing rings around Rabaul (1942-43). The American...
“I . . . saw a boy,” another child recalled. “He was stark naked, and had . . . burns all over the body. His body was spotted with black, purple, and dark red burns. Like a rabbit, the boy was hopping among the corpses . . . and looked into the dead persons' faces. . ...