![]() US morale received a much needed lift when Colonel Jimmy Doolittle led 16 B-25s from the carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) to bomb targets in Japan. By April 1942, when the Japanese forced 75,000 starving and sick Allied POWs to walk more than 60 miles under the most horrendous conditions in the scorching heat with little food or water during the Bataan Death March, there appeared to be little hope for an American victory. ![]() ![]() They managed to occupy Wake Island, Malaya, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and in March 1942 forced General Douglas MacArthur to evacuate from the Philippines. The Japanese rolled through the Pacific at will. ![]() Background: For the first six months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the situation looked very grim for the United States in the Pacific.
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