Island Hopping Research Paper

Imagine a beautiful island full of kids playing on the beaches, climbing the mountains and hills, building forts in the trees, and building sand castles. Now imagine a war torn island with a bunch of soldiers on the beaches shooting and climbing the mountains to get higher ground and climbing trees to hide and snipe off enemy soldiers and soldiers digging foxholes in the beach. This is what the soldiers saw when battling in island hopping. How did the battles help the allies win the war and advance to japan and help with the carpet bombing of the Japanese cities.

The battles of island hopping helped the United States win the war by letting the naval air force a place to rest and refuel and restock. Some of the major battles are Buna, Solomon
Not experienced with guerilla warfare, sick, short on artillery, ammunition, and rations, and weather beaten the Americans and Australians could not take Japan out of there jungle fort. On December 9, 1942 the allies stormed buna and finally gained control on the last week of January 1943. The thousand mile war AKA the aleutian islands battle. Attu and Kiska were the US priority because of the 57 mile gap the the Japanese feared. Therefore the Japanese attacked first. The islands had an important value to the enemy because if held they would have a higher probability to take territory farther down. A canadian and american gather of 100,000 troops was sent to dislodge the Japanese from America's northwestern territory. After almost 2 weeks of bloodshed under freezing climates the nearly 2000 Attu-cultured Japanese. The battle of Iwo Jima. The three airstips on Iwo Jima made it easy for Japan's kamikaze attacks. It took 36 days for United States marines to secure Iwo Jima and gain it as a valuable island and win this island hopping battle. 6,281 American troops were killed in this battle and more than 20,000 Japanese troops. Twenty two marines and five sailors won the Congressional Medal of