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10/02/1944
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The Japanese combined
fleet leaves Truk for Palau. |
| 15/02/1944 |
The USAAF decimate a Japanese convoy
off New Ireland. |
| 19/02/1944 |
A Japanese convoy is smashed by allied
aircraft in the Bismarck Archipelago. |
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| 13/03/1944 |
A U.S. submarine, Sandlance
sinks a Japanese troopship convoy en route to the Marianas. |
| 29/03/1944 |
The U.S. Navy bombards the Palau Islands
to the East of the Philippines, destroying 150 planes, six
naval vessels and 100,000 tons of shipping. |
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| 29/04/1944 |
The US Navy pounds the
Japanese base at Truk, destroying 120 planes. |
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| 21/05/1944 |
An accidental explosion
on board an LST unloading ammunition in West Loch, Pearl Harbor
sinks 6 LST's killing 121 and injuring 380. |
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| 19/06/1944 |
The 'Battle of the Philippine
Sea' begins. |
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| 08/07/1944 |
The U.S. Navy shells
Guam in the Pacific. |
| 17/07/1944 |
Admiral Shimada, the Japanese
Navy Minister is sacked, Nomura takes over. |
| 25/07/1944 |
The British Eastern Fleet
pounds the Japanese airfields and port at Sabang on Sumatra. |
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| 04/08/1944 |
Aircraft from a U.S. carrier
task group, cruisers and destroyers attack a Japanese convoy
and other shipping in the Chichi Jima area, Bonin Is. Simultaneously,
aircraft from a second carrier task group bomb airfield facilities
on Iwo Jima. |
| 05/08/1944 |
U.S. Aircraft from two carrier task
groups, cruisers and destroyers bombard Japanese installations
on Chichi Jima and Haha Jima, Bonin Is. |
| 18/08/1944 |
A Japanese escort carrier is sunk
by a U.S. submarine off northwestern Luzon, Philippine Is.
A Japanese cruiser is sunk by a U.S. submarine east of Samar,
Philippine Is. |
| 23/08/1944 |
U.S. destroyer and smaller naval vessels
start a bombardment, repeated daily for 4 days, on Japanese
installations and positions on Aguijan Island, Northern Mariana
Islands. |
| 31/08/1944 |
Aircraft from a U.S. carrier force
(Task Force 38) commence a 3-day attack on Iwo Jima and the
Bonin Island in the western Caroline's and Visayas Archipelago,
which is the next step to the Philippines. |
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| 03/09/1944 |
Wake Island and other
strategic targets in Pacific are strafed by U.S. Navy aircraft
for two days, during which 13 Japanese ships are reported sunk. |
| 10/09/1944 |
The U.S. Navy begins a two-day bombardment
of the Palau Islands in the Pacific. |
| 21/09/1944 |
U.S. planes hit Manila
in the Philippines, sinking 40 ships and damaging 35. |
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| 23/10/1944 |
The decisive three-day
battle of Leyte Gulf begins. The Japanese lose four carriers,
three battleships, six heavy and four light cruisers, 11 destroyers,
one submarine and some 500 planes, with approximately 10,000
sailors killed. The first organised use of Kamikaze's by the
Japanese are reported. |
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| 15/12/1944 |
A third Japanese prison
ship is mistakenly sunk by US planes off the Philippines, with
less than half of POWs surviving, to be recaptured. |
