THE WORLD AT WAR: Pacific
The Allied Pacific offensive was under the command of two rivals General MacArthur in the South West and Admiral Nimitz in the Central Pacific.
The two-pronged attack seemed simple to the Americans, but the tiny atoll of Tarawa in the Gilberts cost them over a thousand dead...
The next major encounter, in the air over the Mariana Islands, was a total victory with the capture of Saipan, Tinian and Guam following soon after.
By now the rival prongs had met to take the Pilau Islands but again the Americans met fanatical Japanese resistance; on one island, Pelelieu, four out of ten Americans taking part were either killed or wounded.
The two-pronged attack seemed simple to the Americans, but the tiny atoll of Tarawa in the Gilberts cost them over a thousand dead...
The next major encounter, in the air over the Mariana Islands, was a total victory with the capture of Saipan, Tinian and Guam following soon after.
By now the rival prongs had met to take the Pilau Islands but again the Americans met fanatical Japanese resistance; on one island, Pelelieu, four out of ten Americans taking part were either killed or wounded.
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