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    FROM PEARL HARBOR TO GUADALCANAL

    Feb 17, 2022 2 minutes

    dmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) Combined Fleet, warned that a prolonged war against the United States would inevitably be lost. In the event, Japanese naval aircraft dealt a heavy blow against Pearl Harbor and other US military installations in Hawaii. Within hours, Japanese forces also struck at British Malaya, Wake Island, the Philippines and Midway atoll. Japanese forces subsequently advanced from

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