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Personal Narrative Advantage During World War II

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This was due to the fact that there was not enough ships or troops at the time to do that. Churchill believed that only by securing the island of Madagascar by the use of a strong navy and air force, was the only way. After commandos left, the protection of garrisons were to be taken over by troops from the KAR and the East African Forces. Everything was believed to go as planned, but circumstances soon changed everything. It was in March of 1942, that the Japanese soon began raids against the British navy. This led to them having to withdraw back to Africa, and set up base in Kenya. This was a bad situation for the British, because now that they had moved away from their prior position, it meant that not only could the Japanese now use the bases that they had created on the island, but it also meant that their would be a huge loss in effective Allied communication. Due to all of the problems that came from the failure of Operation Bonus, it was then decided to create a new plan. This plan …show more content…

Nyasaland KAR forces went on to fight against Vichy French forces led by Armand Leon Annet, who was the leading governor general and commander of Vichy forces in Madagascar. His fighting force “included about 8,000 troops of whom about 6,000 were Malagasy. A large portion of the rest were Senegalese. Between 1,500 and 3, 000 Vichy troops were concentrated around Diego Suarez.” Even though Vichy forces had a good amount of troops, they did not have a strong navy or air force. According to Friedrich, their “naval and air defenses were relatively light and/or obsolete: eight coastal batteries, two armed merchant cruisers, two sloops, five submarines, 17 Morane-Saulnier 406 fighters and 10 Potez 63 bombers.” This would make it tougher for the Vichy forces to provide a stable defense against the invading Nyasaland

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Before the summer of 1942 the United States fought a defensive war in the Philippines. The change in strategy, was when the U.S. went on a land offensive to defeat the Japanese. They planned to do this by capturing all the islands until their empire was nothing but their Japan itself. The name of the battle that marked the turning point was the Battle of Guadalcanal. Japanese forces reached Guadalcanal in May of 1942.

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The island also had only one officer. Everyone was worried because they thought that the US was going to invade Iwo Jima and start a battle with japan. So, they left the island and went somewhere else. In the beginning of the war, the US marines sent about 70,000 soldiers to a island called Iwo Jima.

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After the bombing, the United State troops approached the island. At their first sight, the troops thought that they had wiped out all of the Japanese troops. This is because the Japanese had dug a tremendous amount of underground tunnels and hideouts (Chen). This is why the United States had a very limited amount of success with the bombing. The Japanese Imperial Navy was instructed to stay in their positions until all of the beaches around Iwo Jima were full.

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Also depleting air strength meant the remaining warplanes had to be hoarded to defend Japanese Home Islands. With no available means to defend Iwo Jima, Japan decided to rely on the established defensive equipment in the area and check U.S. by delaying tactics to gain time for defense of the mainland. Japanese Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi was assigned the task of defending Iwo Jima. Knowing he couldn’t win the battle, he aimed at inflicting heavy casualties on American forces to force them to reconsider invasion of Mainland Japan. His strategy was radically different from Japan’s usual strategy of beach defense to face the landings directly.

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