Why Were Midway And Okinawa Turning Point Battles In The Pacific War?

World War II is mostly known as “the battle against Hitler” but few people know that there is literally another side to it, across the globe, in the Pacific. The Pacific War, or sometimes known as the Asia-Pacific War, was fought in the Pacific and East Asia. This devastating war pitted the Allies, some of them being France, Poland and Great Britain against the Empire of Japan. It started on December 8th, 1941, when the Japanese invaded Thailand and other British possessions including Malaya and Singapore. That same day, in Hawaii, where it was still December 7th, Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour, which “severely damaged the American fleet and prevented, at least for the short term, serious American interference with Japanese military operations. In response, the United States declared war on Japan.”
This investigation will answer the question “Why were Midway and Okinawa turning point battles in the Pacific War?”. This essay focuses on the details of both
This, compared to the United States’ losses; one aircraft carrier “Yorktown”, the destroyer “The USS Hamman”, 145 aircraft and only 307 casualties, is demolishing. Moreover, the Japanese ability to rebuild the war materiel became insufficient as the mounting casualties kept increasing. But instead, the United States’ massive industrial and training capabilities made losses easier to replace. The battle of Midway brought the Pacific naval forces of Japan and the United States to approximate parity and marked a turning point in the battle between these two countries because on August 1942, the great U.S. counteroffensive began and didn’t stop until Japan’s surrender three years later. Also, because the Japanese lost four aircraft carriers, this stopped their expansion in the Pacific because they couldn’t afford