Table of Data Points

Tag : Pacific

1945-02-21Bismark Sea Sunk

Two Japanese kamikazes hit the Bismarck Sea, first on the starboard side under the first 40 mm gun (aft) and then the aft elevator shaft. The sea water distribution system was destroyed along with any hope of damage control. The crew abandoned ship.

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1945-02-191945-03-26Iwo Jima

Of the more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers charged with the defense of Iwo Jima, the first of the Japanese Home Islands, only 216 survive the battle. This was the only battle in the Pacific where US casualties (KIA+Wounded) outnumbered Japanese casualties.

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1945-02-17Demolition swimmers.

When swimmers from underwater demolition teams arrived, the big guns on the northern cliffs opened fire on covering gunboats, believing it was part of an invasion force. The guns were knocked out immediately. The single failure of fire discipline.

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1945-02-031945-03-03Manila

Manila was the scene of the worst urban combat in the Pacific conflict and culminated in the total devastation of the city. The fall of the city ended almost three years of Japanese occupation in the Philippines.

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1945-01-30Raid at Cabanatuan

US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas raid and liberate 512 POWs from the Japanese camp near Cabanatuan.

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1945-01-28Burma Road Open

Supply trucks begin to reach China over the newly re-opened Burma road.

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1945-01-091945-08-15Battle of Luzon

The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan.

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1944-12-18Hankow Bombing

77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

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1944-11-19Sinking of IJN Shinano

Sinking of the IJN Shinano by the Submarine USS ArcherFish

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1944-11-19Sixth War Loan Drive

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

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