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Show Chronology Japanese War 1941 Dec. 7 Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Dec. 8 United States declares war on Japan. Invasion oj Philippines and attack on Cuam and Wake start-ad start-ad by Japanese. Dec. 1 0 General M ac Arthur starts battle of Manila. Dec. 25 Japanese take Wake. Hong Kong falls. Dec. 26 Japs bomb Manila, despite des-pite foot it was declared open city. 1942 Jan. 2 Manila surrenders, Mac-Arthur's Mac-Arthur's forces flee to Bataan. Feb. 15 Singapore falls. Mar. 17 General MacArthur lands in Australia to lead Allied forces. April 9U. S. troops on Bataan surrender. Aug. 7 U. S. marines land on Guadalcanal. 1943 Sept. SAlllet land on New Guinea. Nov. 2 U. S. marines invade Bougainville. Bou-gainville. 1944 Jan. 29 V. S. lands troops In Marshall islands. June 10 Marines invade Saipan. July 19 U. S. forces land on Guam. Oct. 17 Invasion of Leyte on Philippines Phil-ippines gets under way. 1945 Jan. 10 Invasion of Luzon started by Yanks. Jan. 30 U. S. landings north of Bataan seal peninsula. Feb. 4 American troops enter Manila. Feb. 15 U. S. first air raid on Tokyo. To-kyo. Feb. 17 Marines invade Iwo Jima. Army lands on Corregidor. Feb. 26 Philippine commonwealth common-wealth returned to Filipino people. Mar. 17 Iwo Jima captured with marine casualties of 19,938. April 1 Invasion of Okinawa started by 100,000 troops. May 24 550 superforts firebomb Tokyo. May 27 Chinese capture Nan-ning. Nan-ning. June 12 Australian troops invade Borneo. June 21 Okinawa campaign successfully suc-cessfully ends. Aparri captured by Yanks. June 28 Luzon declared completely com-pletely liberated. July 2 Australians landed at Bal-ikpapan. Bal-ikpapan. July 17 British warships join U. S. 3rd fleet. July 24 U. S. 3rd fleet successfully success-fully attacked Jupan's greatest naval base on Kure, Honshu islands. Aug. 3 B-29s bottle up Japan with mines. Aug. 4 MacArthur takes over command of Ryukyus. Aug. 6 Atomic bomb destroys most of Hiroshima. Aug. 7 Superfortresses hit Toy-okawa Toy-okawa naval arsenal. Aug. 8 Russia declares war on Japan. Aug. 10 Japan asks for peace terms. Aug. 14. Jags accept unconditional uncondi-tional surrender terms. |