Valor

Valor. Turning the Tide in the Pacific. In the spring of 1942, American and Allied forces stopped the aggressive Japanese expansion and reversed the tide of war. Using a two-pronged attack westward from Hawaii and northward from Australia, the Allies relied on air power from island bases, fast carrier task forces, wide-ranging submarine operations, and new amphibious warfare techniques. , In May of 1942, US Navy carriers defeated the Japanese on the Coral Sea in a battle in which carrier aircraft did all the fighting. In early June, the Navy destroyed a Japanese invasion fleet in the decisive Battle of Midway. In August, island-hopping rollback of Japanese conquests that required coordinated air, land, and sea operations by US Army, Navy, Marines, and Allied forces. Offensive operations continued in the South Pacific, with major battles fought in 1943 in the Solomons and on New Guinea. , In the fall of 1943, growing forces commanded by Admiral Chester Nimitz moved westward from Pearl Harbor, capturing Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands By early 1944, American and Allied forces had neutralized Japanese attack bases in the Bismarck Archipelago and the Caroline Islands and seized the Marshalls. By the spring of 1944, US forces had gathered to assault the inner ring of enemy defenses and to move within striking range of Japan.