The Battle of Midway proved that aircraft carrier warfare would be the main part in future wars

1. In the Battle of Midway Japan lost 4 aircraft carriers and 200 aircraft with experienced pilots. USA only lost 1 aircraft carrier and 150 planes The victory by the U.S. at Midway became the turning point of the Pacific Theater in WWII. By defeating Japan at Midway, the U.S. was able to begin the "island hopping" campaign to bring the war to Japan's home islands Battle of Midway The battle occurred because the Japanese Navy sought to take the United States out of the picture in the Pacific Theater of operations at Midway The Battle of Midway proved that aircraft carrier warfare would be the main part in future wars The Marines had 20 Brewster Buffalos, which were very slow and no match for the faster and better equipped Zeros. The Brewster Buffalos did shot down 17 of the Japanese aircrafts but at the coast of 15 pilots.

2. June 4-6 1942 Chester W. Nimitz Isoroku Yamamoto

3. Akagi Japanese ship USS Enterprise Incontestable Mastery of the Air Midway Island USS Yorktown Japanese cruiser Mikuma sinking

5. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself started in early December 1941, with the Sino-Japanese War then becoming part of it as a theater of the greater World War II Asian Theatre Pacific War Council The term Pacific War is used to encompass the Pacific Ocean theatre, the South West Pacific theatre, the South-East Asian theatre and the Second Sino-Japanese War, also including the 1945 Soviet-Japanese conflict. Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main areas of conflict in the Pacific War: China, the Central Pacific, South East Asia and the South West Pacific

6. Bataan Death March P.O.W's were to be moved by foot, carrying their own rations to the border of Bataan and Pampango. Troops started to march in a long column on a dusty road without food and water. The Bataan Death March began as a plea for life. The Bataan Death March was a 70-mile forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by Japanese forces during World War II. 72,000 American and Filipino soldiers were forced to surrender to the Japanese Army after their defeat in the grinding, three-month-long Battle of Bataan

7. Iwo Jima • important as an air base for fighter escorts supporting long-range bombing missions against mainland Japan • Iwo Jima proved a difficult and bloody target to take – frequently the Americans only advanced at several hundred meters per day. By March 11th, the Japanese were trapped in an area around Kitano Point, the island’s most northerly extremity. By March 16th, the island was declared secure and all resistance had ceased by March 26th. • show the Americans was how far the Japanese would go to defend their country – a decision that was to influence the use of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • the capture of Iwo Jima would provide an emergency landing strip for crippled B-29s returning from bombing runs • Iwo Jima Initial carrier raids began in June 1944 • Means Sulfur Island