| | Japan: history 1941-45 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Japan: history 1941-45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | This meant the breakdown of Japan's original strategy, which relied on the bases in the Carolines, Marianas, Philippines, and Ryukyu Islands as ‘unsinkable aircraft carriers’ for covering Japan's maritime communications to the mainland of Asia and the Malay Archipelago, and for preventing a close approach of the enemy by sea to the Japanese homeland. |
 | | Japan's hope of using Burma as a springboard for invading India had been finally destroyed by the failure of the Japanese thrust into Manipur in the spring of 1944. |
 | | It was the moment for Japan to risk a naval battle, and in October 1944 the main strength of the Japanese navy was deployed in a determined attempt to crush the US naval force that was covering the invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines. |
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