🏝️ Island Hopping 🪖 During WWII, to combat Japan’s large geographic area, the U.S. military used the strategy of island hopping. Overtaking an island to build an airfield, cutting off supplies, then hopping to the next island. One of these islands was Peleliu Island, which was one of the bloodiest landings to date. 📰 Tom Lea was with the 7th USMC Regiment and reported to LIFE magazine as a war artist correspondent. To accurately report what was happening, Tom Lea landed in the second wave wit
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Japanese Were Terrified By America's Island Hopping Strategy Explore how ⚔️ America’s ingenious island-hopping strategy in World War II redefined modern warfare and shattered Japan’s military spirit without direct confrontation. Rather than storming every island, U.S. forces under Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Douglas MacArthur bypassed heavily fortified Japanese strongholds such as Rabaul, Truk, and Wake Island—turning them into isolated outposts cut off from supplies, reinforcements, and
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1M views · 10K reactions | On this day in 1943, U.S. troops stormed the Japanese-held Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The bloody, 76-hour Battle of Tarawa is remembered as the first major American offensive in the central Pacific. For the full story, watch this clip from The Pacific War in Color: Island Hopping. | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook
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