The Japanese Onslaught
Battle for New Guinea
The Battle for Guadalcanal
America Fights Back
The Aleutians Campaign
Island Hopping Campaign
| Tarawa and Makin |
| Kwajalein and Eniwetok |
| Battle of Philippine Sea |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| Iwo Jima |
| Okinawa |
The Burma Campaign
| The Burma Campaign |
| The Battle of Leyte Gulf: October, 1944 |
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Japan's fleet has been decimated over the past two years by fighting in the Solomons, the losses at Midway, and the loss of their remaining naval air forces during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. During an October 18, 1944 Headquarters Liasion meeting, it was requested that "the fleet be given a suitable place to die." When the United States invades the Philippines, the Japanese launch their final naval assault - effectively a massive naval kamikaze attack. Virtually every remaining ship in the Japanese fleet sails in Operation SHO-1 in an attempt to destroy the US invasion fleet in the Leyte Gulf. See the Flash animation for more.
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The Battle Animation
