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| 1942 March 8 |
| | | The Japanese invasion of Papua signals the start of the three-year New Guinea campaign | |
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| 1942 June 7 |
| | | US planes sink four Japanese aircraft carriers in the battle of Midway, halting for the first time Japan's aggressive expansion | |
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| 1942 August 7 |
| | | US and Japanese forces begin a violent six-month struggle for Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands | |
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| 1943 February 9 |
| | | After a six-month battle, US troops win the Pacific base of Guadalcanal from the Japanese | |
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| 1944 February 17 |
| | | US bombers destroy Japanese warships and planes in Operation Hailstone, a radar-guided night attack on the Truk Islands | |
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| 1944 July 9 |
| | | American marines win the island of Saipan in the Marianas, bringing Japan within range of US bombers | |
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| 1945 February 19 |
| | | American marines land on Japanese-occupied Iwo Jima, a volcanic island 650 miles southeast of Tokyo | |
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| 1945 March 24 |
| | | At a cost of 20,000 dead, US marines win full control of the small strategic island of Iwo Jima | |
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| 1946 |
| | | The first of about 20 US tests of atomic and hydrogen bombs is carried out on Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The first hydrogen bomb is successfully tested by the US at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands | |
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