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Battle of Leyte Gulf

WHERE

  • Philippines
  • Leyte
  • Surigao Strait
  • Samar
  • Cape Engaño

WHY

  • A strategy to isolate Japan from the countries it has occupied in South East Asia.

  • Take away its forces and industry of vital oil, rubber and tin supplies.
  • Giving Philippines in Japanese hands would be a blow to American prestige, especially to MacArthur, who had pronounced "I shall return" after the US had lost to Japan in the Battle of Bataan

WHO

WHAT

  • At an airbase at the island of Luzon Japanese planned an attack that was never tried before.
  • 24 Japanese pilots volunteer to fly aircraft carrying 550 pound bomb straight into US warship
  • The volunteers were formed into a group called the special attack unit later known as the kamikaze
  • United States of America and Australian forces
  • Imperial Japanese Navy
  • Philippines
  • Largest naval battle of WWII, and possibly in History.
  • It was a battle to free the Philippines
  • The support and the protection of the US fleet was the key to the capture of Leyte
  • Japan hoped to destroy as many transports as they could and disrupt the troops on land
  • With the combined forces of US and Australia, they invaded the island of Leyte, which is currently in control of Japanese troops.
  • Japanese responded with Sho-Go(Victory Operation)

Significance

WHEN

  • Leyte Island was chosen as the starting point for liberation because of it unique strategic position
  • Crippled the Japanese Combined Fleet, permitted U.S. invasion of the Philippines and reinforced the Allies control of the Pacific.
  • October 23 - 26, 1944
  • Battle for the Leyte Gulf
  • October - December 1944
  • Battle of Leyte
  • The first battle where Japanese aircraft execute organized Kamikaze attacks

* Kamikaze aircraft's - pilot-guided explosive missiles, where pilots attempt to crash their own aircraft in to enemy ships -"Body Attacks"

BACKGROUND

  • Within hours of the destruction of the American Battle fleet, Japan began to violate the Philippines

  • April 1942 Bataan Peninsula fell.

  • Two and a half year after the fall of the Bataan Peninsula the allied forces decided to reconquer Philippines and the battle of Leyte began

SYMBOL

The Japanese battleship Yamato was the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleship ever constructed, which took part in the battle of Leyte gulf in response to the American invasion of the Philippines. The U.S destroyed the ship which was a great defeat for the Japanese and a tremendous victory for the United States

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Why did Japanese pilots volunteer to sacrifice their lives in the Kamikaze suicidal attacks?

a. Japan's tradition of death instead of defeat, capture, and shame was deeply established in Japanese military culture

b. Forced to volunteer to carry out plan (Conscription)

c. Promised for a better life for their family ( Using various

propaganda)

To fight for their own country's safety and achieve victory.

d.

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