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The Empire of Japan launched a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II.
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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and United States Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
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The Battle of Okinawa (April 1–June 22, 1945), code-named Operation Iceberg, was the largest, last, and one of the bloodiest, amphibious battles of WWII in the Pacific. US forces secured the strategic island to use as a base for invading mainland Japan, but faced intense, 82-day fighting and kamikaze attacks