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Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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Iwo Jima was perfectly was located. It had a dormant volcano at its southern tip and rugged terrain with cliffs. On February 19, 1945, some 60,000 marines landed on Iwo Jima. They sank up to their ankles in the soft ash and were pounded by Japanese artillery. The marines crawled inland, attacking the Japanese bunkers with flamethrowers and explosives. More than 6,800 marines were killed capturing the island.

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The attack began just before dawn on December 16,1944. Six inches of snow covered the ground, and the weather was bitterly cold. Germans caught the American defenders by surprise. As the German troops raced west, their lines bulged outward, and the attack became known as the Battle of the Bulge.
Allied aircraft began hitting German fuel depots. On Christmas Eve, out of fuel and weakened by heavy losses, the German troops driving toward Antwerp were forced to halt. The fight continued for 3 weeks. United Stated had won the Battle of the Bulge. Germans suffered more than 100,000 casualties. They had very few resources left to prevent the allies from entering Germany.

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Nearly 7,000 ships carrying more than 100,000 soldiers headed for Normandy's coast. At the same time, 23,000 troopers were dropped inland, east and west of the beaches. Allied fighter bombers raced up and down the coast, hitting bridges,bunkers and radar sites. At dawn, Allied warships began a tremendous barrage. The Germans were weak. Less than 3 hours, the troops had captured the beach and moved inland.
Suffering fewer than 200 casualties. On the eastern flank, British and Canadian landings also went well. By the end of the day, British and Canadian forces were several miles inland. Beach was only four miles long. The Germans dug trenches and built concrete bunkers to place machine guns. Under intense German fire, the American assault almost disintegrated. However the American troops began to knock out the obstacles to get to the beach. Nearly 2,500 Americans were either killed or wounded in Omaha. End of the day, nearly 35,000 American troops had landed at Omaha and another 23,000 had landed at Utah. More than 75,000 British and Canadian troops were on shore as well. The invasion had succeeded.

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Anzio, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy

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The allies landed at Anzio, behind German lines. Instead of retreating, however,as the allies had hoped, the Germans surrounded the Allied troops near Anzio. It took the Allies five months to break through the German lines at Cassino and Anzio. Finally, in late May 1944, the Germans retreated. Less than two weeks later, the Allies captured Rome. Fighting in Italy continued, however for another year. The italian campaign was one of the most bloodiest in the war, with more than 300,000 allied casualties.

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Roosevelt decided to invade for 2 reasons. The invasion would give the army some experience without requiring a lot of troops. It would also help the British troops fight the Germans in Egypt.
After a 12 day battle at the Egyptian coastal city of El Alamein, the British secured the Suez canal and forced Romel to retreat in November 1942. German forces remained a serious threat in North Africa.
Americans fought the German army for the first time. Americans were outmaneuvered. They suffered roughly 7,000 casualties and lost nearly 200 tanks. The Americans and British forces finally pushed the Germans back. On May, 1943, the last German troops in North Africa surrendered.

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To take back the Philippines, the united states assembled an enormous invasion force. Over 700 ships carrying more than 160,000 troops sailed for Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. On October 20, the troops began to land on Leyte, an island on the eastern side of the Philippines. To stop the American invasion, the Japanese sent four aircraft carriers toward the Philippines from the north and secretly dispatched another fleet from the west.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history. It was also the first time that the Japanese used kamikaze attacks. Although the Japanese fleet had retreated , the campaign to recapture the Philippines from the Japanese was long and grueling. More than 80,000 Japanese were killed. Fewer than 1,000 surrendered. They were still fighting until August 1945 when word came that Japanese had surrendered.

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This was the first major land offensive by allied forces against the empire of Japan. Allied forces landed on Guadalcanal with the objective of using Guadalcanal and Tulagi as bases in supporting a campaign to eventually capture or neutralize the major Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The Japanese defenders were outnumbered by the allies. The Japanese withdrew their ships and air crafts from the base. They left 100,000 troops behind to hold the island. This event often reffered as the turning point in the war.

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Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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The Japanese launched their aircraft against Midway on June 4,1942. The Japanese ran into a blizzard of antiaircraft fire, and 38 planes were shot down. As the Japanese prepared a second wave to attack Midway, aircraft from the American carriers launched a counterattack. The American planes caught the Japanese carriers with fuel, bombs, and aircraft exposed on their flight decks.
This was a turning point in the war. The Japanese navy lost four large carriers. This battle killed 362 Americans and 3057 Japanese.

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The Japanese thought they could safely proceed with 2 attacks at once and they it they're operation were a secret but the American team of code breakers had already broken the Japanese navy's secret code. The Japanese didn't know that.
When the Japanese started the attack, It alerted the U.S. on Japan attacking New Guinea. Admiral Nimitz sent two carriers to intercept the Japanese in the Coral sea. Carriers from both sides launched airstrikes against each other. American attacks prevented the Japanese from landing on New Guinea's south coast and kept the supply lines to Australia open.

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On April 9, 1942, the weary defenders of the Bataan peninsula finally surrendered. Nearly 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to march sick, exhausted, and starving-65 miles to a Japanese prison camp.
Almost 10,000 troops died on this march, Which was later called the Bataan death march. This was remembered as an absolute tragedy.