In the Battle of Midway Japan lost 4 aircraft carriers and 200 aircraft with experienced pilots. USA only lost 1 aircraft carrier and 150 planes The Battle of Midway proved that aircraft carrier warfare would be the main part in future wars The battle occurred because the Japanese Navy sought to take the United States out of the picture in the Pacific Theater of operations at Midway By defeating Japan at Midway, the U.S. was able to begin the "island hopping" campaign to bring the war to Japan's home islands The victory by the U.S. at Midway became the turning point of the Pacific Theater in WWII. The Marines had 20 Brewster Buffalos, which were very slow and no match for the faster and better equipped Zeros. The Brewster Buffalos did shot down 17 of the Japanese aircrafts but at the coast of 15 pilots.

Commanders United States Chester W. Nimitz Frank J. Fletcher Raymond A. Spruance Japan Isoroku Yamamoto Nobutake Kondō Chūichi Nagumo Tamon Yamaguchi † Ryusaku Yanagimoto † Casualties United States 1 carrier sunk 1 destroyer sunk 150 aircraft destroyed 307 killed Japan 4 carriers sunk 1 cruiser sunk 248 carrier aircraft destroyed 3,057 killed Isoroku Yamamoto Chester W. Nimitz

Akagi Japanese ship Incontestable Mastery of the Air Midway Island Japanese cruiser Mikuma sinking USS Enterprise USS Yorktown

The term Pacific War is used to encompass the Pacific Ocean theatre, the South West Pacific theatre, the South-East Asian theatre and the Second Sino- Japanese War, also including the 1945 Soviet-Japanese conflict. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself started in early December 1941, with the Sino-Japanese War then becoming part of it as a theater of the greater World War II Between 1942 and 1945, there were four main areas of conflict in the Pacific War: China, the Central Pacific, South East Asia and the South West Pacific Pacific War Council

Bataan Death March The Bataan Death March was a 70-mile forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by Japanese forces during World War II. 72,000 American and Filipino soldiers were forced to surrender to the Japanese Army after their defeat in the grinding, three-month-long Battle of Bataan P.O.W's were to be moved by foot, carrying their own rations to the border of Bataan and Pampango. Troops started to march in a long column on a dusty road without food and water. The Bataan Death March began as a plea for life.

Iwo Jima  Means Sulfur Island  important as an air base for fighter escorts supporting long-range bombing missions against mainland Japan  the capture of Iwo Jima would provide an emergency landing strip for crippled B-29s returning from bombing runs  Iwo Jima Initial carrier raids began in June 1944  Iwo Jima proved a difficult and bloody target to take – frequently the Americans only advanced at several hundred meters per day. By March 11th, the Japanese were trapped in an area around Kitano Point, the island’s most northerly extremity. By March 16th, the island was declared secure and all resistance had ceased by March 26th.  show the Americans was how far the Japanese would go to defend their country – a decision that was to influence the use of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.