Question: Who gave the directive for all carriers in the US Navy to have combat information centers?
Answer: Nimitz

Question: On what day did U.S> planes located Ozawa's fleet?
Answer: second

Question: How many miles away was Ozawa's fleet located?
Answer: 275

Question: How many planes did the U.S. lose?
Answer: 130

Question: How many planes did Japan lose?
Answer: 450

Question: How many U.S. aircrews were lost?
Answer: 76

Question: What is argued to be the largest naval battle in history?
Answer: Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question: When did the Battle of Leyte Gulf occur?
Answer: 23 to 26 October 1944

Question: When did Nimitz launch a carrier raid against Formosa?
Answer: 12 October

Question: What was the largest naval battle in World War II?
Answer: Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question: What did Nimitz favor blockading?
Answer: Philippines

Question: Who would enter Leyte Gulf to attack the Allied landing forces?
Answer: V. Adm. Takeo Kurita

Question: How many Japanese forces were likely to be destroyed?
Answer: one or more

Question: What was the namee of the plan where Ozawa's force would lure the U.S. 3rd Fleet away from Leyte?
Answer: Sho-1

Question: How many battleships were in Kurita's "Center Force"?
Answer: five

Question: How many cruisers were in Kurita's "Center Force"?
Answer: 12

Question: How many destroyers were in Kurita's "Center Force"?
Answer: 13

Question: When did Kurita's force enter the Sibuyan Sea?
Answer: 24 October

Question: How many battleships were in Nishimura's force?
Answer: two

Question: Which Japanese admiral was a  rival of Nishimura?
Answer: Shima

Question: How many miles was Shima's fleet behind Nishimura?
Answer: 22

Question: Who set the trap for the Japanese forces as they sailed by Panaon Island?
Answer: R. Adm. Jesse Oldendorf

Question: How many battleships did the U.S.-Australian 7th Fleet have?
Answer: six

Question: When did the allies spot Ozawa's "Northern Force"?
Answer: 16:40 on 24 October

Question: How many aircraft carriers were in Ozawa's "Northern Force"?
Answer: four

Question: How many planes were in the U.S. 3rd Fleet?
Answer: 1,000

Question: How many cruisers were in the U.S. Third Fleet?
Answer: 17

Question: How many destroyers were in the U.S. Third Fleet?
Answer: 63

Question: When did Kurita pass through the San Bernardino Strait?
Answer: 03:00 on 25 October

Question: Where did Kurit head after passing through the San Bernardino Strait?
Answer: along the coast of Samar

Question: Admiral Kincaid commanded what three groups of the Seventh Fleet?
Answer: Taffy 1, 2 and 3

Question: What broke the Japanes formations under Kurita?
Answer: Destroyer attacks

Question: How many of Kurita's heavy cruisers were sunk?
Answer: Three

Question: What were the Leyte beachheads of the U.S. Sixth Army secured from?
Answer: attack from the sea

Question: When did Operation Ten-Go occur?
Answer: April 1945

Question: How many battleships did Kurita begin Operation Ten-Go with?
Answer: five

Question: What was the last battleship in history to engage in combat with another battleship?
Answer: Yamashiro

Question: Which battleship was still capable of combat when Kurita returned to Japan?
Answer: Yamato

Question: When did the U.S. Sixth Army land on the eastern shore of Leyte?
Answer: 20 October 1944

Question: Where did the Japanese rush reinforcments to on the western side of Leyte?
Answer: Ormoc Bay area

Question: What force devastated resupply attempts by the Japanese?
Answer: U.S. Fifth Air Force

Question: Fighting continued on Leyte for how long?
Answer: months

Question: What was the neighboring island to the north of Leyte.
Answer: Samar

Question: Landings were made on the beaches of what island on December 15, 1944?
Answer: Mindoro

Question: Lingayen Gulf operations supported what landings?
Answer: Luzon

Question: Who led the Sixth Army?
Answer: General Krueger

Question: Clark field was how many miles northwest of Manila?
Answer: 40

Question: What island was between Borneo and Mindoro?
Answer: Palawan

Question: What island was invaded by the Eighth Army on February 28?
Answer: Palawan

Question: Where did the Eighth Army land?
Answer: Puerto Princesa

Question: Who aided U.S. forces in finding Japanese holdouts in the Philippines?
Answer: Filipino guerrillas

Question: What is the western-most Philippine island?
Answer: Palawan

Question: What was "Operation Detachment"?
Answer: battle of Iwo Jima

Question: When did "Operation Detachment" occur?
Answer: February 1945

Question: How many square miles is the island of Iwo Jima?
Answer: 8

Question: Iwo Jima is halfway between the Mariana Islands and what city?
Answer: Tokyo

Question: How many airfields were on Iwo Jima?
Answer: three

Question: How many miles of hidden tunnel were on the island?
Answer: 11

Question: What were the pillboxes and bunkers connected by?
Answer: underground tunnels

Question: Who transformed the island into a fortress?
Answer: Kuribayashi

Question: Who did the network of fortifications on the island favor?
Answer: the defender

Question: When did Iwo Jima come under bombardment?
Answer: mid-June 1944

Question: How many men landed on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945?
Answer: some 30,000

Question: What was the name of the mountain on Iwo Jima?
Answer: Mount Suribachi

Question: How many U.S. Marines were killed by the time thhey reached the west coast of the island?
Answer: almost 2,000

Question: What marine regiment reached the summit of Mount Suribachi?
Answer: 28th

Question: When was the summit of Mount Suribachi reached by U.S. marines?
Answer: 23 February

Question: Who said "there will be a Marine Corps for the next 500 years"?
Answer: Navy Secretary James Forrestal

Question: When was the island of Iwo Jima secured by the Americans?
Answer: 26 March

Question: How many Japanese prisoners were taken on Iwo Jima?
Answer: 1,083

Question: What was the capital of Burma?
Answer: Rangoon

Question: What was the principle port of Burma?
Answer: Rangoon

Question: When was Operation Dracula launched?
Answer: 1 May

Question: What force was delayed by Japanese rearguards north of Rangoon?
Answer: Fourteenth Army

Question: What month was a delay caused by Japanese rearguards north of Rangoon?
Answer: April

Question: How many British and Australian prisoners survived out of about 2500 around Sandakan?
Answer: six

Question: Sandakan was located in what providence?
Answer: Borneo

Question: In 1945, how many years had Japan already been at war with China?
Answer: seven

Question: What battle did the Japanese Army begin to prepare for in March 1945?
Answer: Battle of West Hunan

Question: How many Japanese soldiers were mobilized to capture the Chinese airfields and railroads in West Hunan?
Answer: 80,000

Question: Who was the Chinese commander-in-chief of the 10th and 27th Army Groups?
Answer: He Yingqin

Question: When did Chinese forces retake Guangxi?
Answer: August 1945

Question: How many B-29 bombers were airbases need for in Okinawa?
Answer: 3,000

Question: How many squadrons of B=17 bombers were airbases need for in Okinawa?
Answer: 240

Question: How many Japanese troops were on Okinawa?
Answer: 115,000

Question: When did the United States land forces on Okinawa?
Answer: 1 April 1945

Question: How many U.S. ships were lost at Okinawa?
Answer: 38

Question: What percent of Japanese troops died on Okinawa?
Answer: 94

Question: Using a total blockade and air raids, what did the US Navy hope to force?
Answer: Japanese surrender

Question: How many Japanese troops defended Okinawa?
Answer: 117,000

Question: How did the Japanese attempt to cause high Allied casualties?
Answer: kamikaze tactics

Question: Who was over the new U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific command?
Answer: General Curtis LeMay

Question: How many people were killed in the incendry attack on Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945?
Answer: 100,000

Question: When was the Potsdam Declaration issued?
Answer: 26 July 1945