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Hace 1 día · The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan 's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
- 4–7 June 1942
- American victory
Hace 2 días · To support these goals, during the first few months of 1942, besides Malaya, Japanese forces attacked and took control of the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, Wake Island, New Britain, the Gilbert Islands and Guam, inflicting heavy losses on opposing Allied land, naval and air forces.
- 4–8 May 1942
- See Significance
15 de may. de 2024 · The scenario in the early morning of 10 December 1941, was this: 400 strong, well-trained and well-disciplined Japanese invasion force landed at Tamuning ’s Dungca Beach; the larger invasion force of 5,500 made beach landings around the island in Tumon, in Yona at Togcha, between Facpi Point and Merizo.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Battle of the Coral Sea, (May 4–8, 1942) World War II naval and air engagement in which a U.S. fleet turned back a Japanese invasion force that had been heading for strategic Port Moresby in New Guinea. Japanese expansion in World War II.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 4 días · The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
- 7 August 1942 – 9 February 1943, (6 months and 2 days)
- Allied victory
15 de may. de 2024 · Wake Island was probably visited by Micronesian and Polynesian settlers, and oral legends tell of periodic voyages to the islands by people from the Marshall Islands. Wake Island was uninhabited when Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana de NEYRA became the first European to see it in 1568 and still had no human inhabitants when English captain Samuel WAKE sailed by it in 1796.
8 de may. de 2024 · Battle of Wake Island. December 8, 1941 - December 23, 1941. Bataan Death March. April 9, 1942.
