Island hopping.
pushing the enemy off islands
Japan
Midway
Okinawa
General Douglas MacArthur.
Island hopping.
An island-hopping campaign in order to get close enough to strike Japan.
Chester W. Nimitz
They usually targeted aircraft carriers, especially during the battles at Midway and during the island hopping campaign. Pearl Harbor was the anomaly.
The Americans and Allied Forces won the battle of Iwo Jima and most of the battles to take back the islands on the island hopping campaign.
The Pacific campaign against the Japanese consisted of "island hopping" where one island, or chain of islands, was taken at a time. Once an island was taken that was close enough to launch bombing raids from, the Japanese mainland was firebombed by Allied aircraft.
pushing the enemy off islands
the us and australia
Sicily
'Island Hopping'
The American commander was Washington, and the British commander was Howe.