Heavily outnumbered Japanese
troops battled the Allied advance.
toward Japan for five weeks leav-
ing only 216 survivors of about
20,000 troops.
MacArthur retakes the
Philippines cutting off Japanese
supplies and almost eliminating
its navy.
The Allies win a six-month-long
battle on land to launch the is-
land-hopping offensive in 1942.
Japanese forces destroyed over
30 U.S. ships deploying kamikaze
tactics and lost about 110,000
soldiers and between 40,000 and
150,000 civilians.
a.
b.
C.
Leyte Gulf
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
d. Midway
e. Guadalcanal