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Passage: On 15 December 1944 landings against minimal resistance were made on the southern beaches of the island of Mindoro, a key location in the planned Lingayen Gulf operations, in support of major landings scheduled on Luzon. On 9 January 1945, on the south shore of Lingayen Gulf on the western coast of Luzon, General Krueger's Sixth Army landed his first units. Almost 175,000 men followed across the twenty-mile (32 km) beachhead within a few days. With heavy air support, Army units pushed inland, taking Clark Field, 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Manila, in the last week of January.

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

Question: Lingayen Gulf operations supported what landings?

Question: Who led the Sixth Army?

Question: Clark field was how many miles northwest of Manila?
Passage: Palawan Island, between Borneo and Mindoro, the fifth largest and western-most Philippine Island, was invaded on 28 February with landings of the Eighth Army at Puerto Princesa. The Japanese put up little direct defense of Palawan, but cleaning up pockets of Japanese resistance lasted until late April, as the Japanese used their common tactic of withdrawing into the mountain jungles, dispersed as small units. Throughout the Philippines, U.S. forces were aided by Filipino guerrillas to find and dispatch the holdouts.

Question: What island was between Borneo and Mindoro?

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

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

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Passage: The battle of Iwo Jima ("Operation Detachment") in February 1945 was one of the bloodiest battles fought by the Americans in the Pacific War. Iwo Jima was an 8 sq mile (21 km2) island situated halfway between Tokyo and the Mariana Islands. Holland Smith, the commander of the invasion force, aimed to capture the island, and utilize its three airfields as bases to carry out air attacks against the Home Islands. Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the commander of the island's defense, knew that he could not win the battle, but he hoped to make the Americans suffer far more than they could endure.

Question: What was "Operation Detachment"?

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

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

Question: How many airfields were on Iwo Jima?
Passage: From early 1944 until the days leading up to the invasion, Kuribayashi transformed the island into a massive network of bunkers, hidden guns, and 11 mi (18 km) of underground tunnels. The heavy American naval and air bombardment did little but drive the Japanese further underground, making their positions impervious to enemy fire. Their pillboxes and bunkers were all connected so that if one was knocked out, it could be reoccupied again. The network of bunkers and pillboxes greatly favored the defender.

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

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Question: Who transformed the island into a fortress?

Question: Who did the network of fortifications on the island favor?
Passage: Starting in mid-June 1944, Iwo Jima came under sustained aerial bombardment and naval artillery fire. However, Kuribayashi's hidden guns and defenses survived the constant bombardment virtually unscathed. On 19 February 1945, some 30,000 men of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions landed on the southeast coast of Iwo, just under Mount Suribachi; where most of the island's defenses were concentrated. For some time, they did not come under fire. This was part of Kuribayashi's plan to hold fire until the landing beaches were full. As soon as the Marines pushed inland to a line of enemy bunkers, they came under devastating machine gun and artillery fire which cut down many of the men. By the end of the day, the Marines reached the west coast of the island, but their losses were appalling; almost 2,000 men killed or wounded.

Question: When did Iwo Jima come under bombardment?

Question: How many men landed on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945?

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

Question: How many U.S. Marines were killed by the time thhey reached the west coast of the island?
Passage: On 23 February, the 28th Marine Regiment reached the summit of Suribachi, prompting the now famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima picture. Navy Secretary James Forrestal, upon seeing the flag, remarked "there will be a Marine Corps for the next 500 years." The flag raising is often cited as the most reproduced photograph of all time and became the archetypal representation not only of that battle, but of the entire Pacific War. For the rest of February, the Americans pushed north, and by 1 March, had taken two-thirds of the island. But it was not until 26 March that the island was finally secured. The Japanese fought to the last man, killing 6,800 Marines and wounding nearly 20,000 more. The Japanese losses totaled well over 20,000 men killed, and only 1,083 prisoners were taken. Historians debate whether it was strategically worth the casualties sustained.

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

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

Question: Who said "there will be a Marine Corps for the next 500 years"?

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

Question: How many Japanese prisoners were taken on Iwo Jima?
Passage: During April, Fourteenth Army advanced 300 miles (480 km) south towards Rangoon, the capital and principal port of Burma, but was delayed by Japanese rearguards 40 miles (64 km) north of Rangoon at the end of the month. Slim feared that the Japanese would defend Rangoon house-to-house during the monsoon, placing his army in a disastrous supply situation, and in March he had asked that a plan to capture Rangoon by an amphibious force, Operation Dracula, which had been abandoned earlier, be reinstated. Dracula was launched on 1 May, but Rangoon was found to have been abandoned. The troops which occupied Rangoon linked up with Fourteenth Army five days later, securing the Allies' lines of communication.

Question: What was the capital of Burma?

Question: What was the principle port of Burma?

Question: When was Operation Dracula launched?

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

Question: What month was a delay caused by Japanese rearguards north of Rangoon?
Passage: Although the campaign was criticized in Australia at the time, and in subsequent years, as pointless or a "waste" of the lives of soldiers, it did achieve a number of objectives, such as increasing the isolation of significant Japanese forces occupying the main part of the Dutch East Indies, capturing major oil supplies and freeing Allied prisoners of war, who were being held in deteriorating conditions. At one of the very worst sites, around Sandakan in Borneo, only six of some 2,500 British and Australian prisoners survived.

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

Question: Sandakan was located in what providence?
Passage: By April 1945, China had already been at war with Japan for more than seven years. Both nations were exhausted by years of battles, bombings and blockades. After Japanese victories in Operation Ichi-Go, Japan were losing the battle in Burma and facing constant attacks from Chinese Nationalists forces and Communist guerrillas in the country side. The Japanese army began preparations for the Battle of West Hunan in March 1945. Japanese mobilized 34th, 47th, 64th, 68th and 116th Divisions, as well as the 86th Independent Brigade, for a total of 80,000 men to seize Chinese airfields and secure railroads in West Hunan by early April. In response, the Chinese National Military Council dispatched the 4th Front Army and the 10th and 27th Army Groups with He Yingqin as commander-in-chief. At the same time, it airlifted the entire Chinese New 6th Corps, an American-equipped corps and veterans of the Burma Expeditionary Force, from Kunming to Zhijiang. Chinese forces totaled 110,000 men in 20 divisions. They were supported by about 400 aircraft from Chinese and American air forces. Chinese forces achieved a decisive victory and launched a large counterattack in this campaign. Concurrently, the Chinese managed to repel a Japanese offensive in Henan and Hubei. Afterwards, Chinese forces retook Hunan and Hubei provinces in South China. Chinese launched a counter offensive to retake Guangxi which was the last major Japanese stronghold in South China. In August 1945, Chinese forces successfully retook Guangxi.[citation needed]

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

Question: What battle did the Japanese Army begin to prepare for in March 1945?

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

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

Question: When did Chinese forces retake Guangxi?
Passage: The largest and bloodiest American battle came at Okinawa, as the U.S. sought airbases for 3,000 B-29 bombers and 240 squadrons of B-17 bombers for the intense bombardment of Japan's home islands in preparation for a full-scale invasion in late 1945. The Japanese, with 115,000 troops augmented by thousands of civilians on the heavily populated island, did not resist on the beaches—their strategy was to maximize the number of soldier and Marine casualties, and naval losses from Kamikaze attacks. After an intense bombardment the Americans landed on 1 April 1945 and declared victory on 21 June. The supporting naval forces were the targets for 4,000 sorties, many by Kamikaze suicide planes. U.S. losses totaled 38 ships of all types sunk and 368 damaged with 4,900 sailors killed. The Americans suffered 75,000 casualties on the ground; 94% of the Japanese soldiers died along with many civilians.

Question: How many B-29 bombers were airbases need for in Okinawa?

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

Question: How many Japanese troops were on Okinawa?

Question: When did the United States land forces on Okinawa?

Question: How many U.S. ships were lost at Okinawa?
Passage: Hard-fought battles on the Japanese home islands of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and others resulted in horrific casualties on both sides but finally produced a Japanese defeat. Of the 117,000 Japanese troops defending Okinawa, 94 percent died. Faced with the loss of most of their experienced pilots, the Japanese increased their use of kamikaze tactics in an attempt to create unacceptably high casualties for the Allies. The U.S. Navy proposed to force a Japanese surrender through a total naval blockade and air raids.

Question: What percent of Japanese troops died on Okinawa?

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

Question: How many Japanese troops defended Okinawa?

Question: How did the Japanese attempt to cause high Allied casualties?
Passage: Towards the end of the war as the role of strategic bombing became more important, a new command for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific was created to oversee all U.S. strategic bombing in the hemisphere, under United States Army Air Forces General Curtis LeMay. Japanese industrial production plunged as nearly half of the built-up areas of 67 cities were destroyed by B-29 firebombing raids. On 9–10 March 1945 alone, about 100,000 people were killed in a conflagration caused by an incendiary attack on Tokyo. LeMay also oversaw Operation Starvation, in which the inland waterways of Japan were extensively mined by air, which disrupted the small amount of remaining Japanese coastal sea traffic. On 26 July 1945, the President of the United States Harry S. Truman, the President of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek and the Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill issued the Potsdam Declaration, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference. This ultimatum stated that, if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction."

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

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

Question: When was the Potsdam Declaration issued?

Question: Who oversaw Operation Starvation?

Question: What ultimatum stated that Japan would face "prompt and utter destruction" if it did not surrender?
Passage: On 6 August 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in the first nuclear attack in history. In a press release issued after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Truman warned Japan to surrender or "...expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Three days later, on 9 August, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the last nuclear attack in history. More than 140,000–240,000 people died as a direct result of these two bombings. The necessity of the atomic bombings has long been debated, with detractors claiming that a naval blockade and aerial bombing campaign had already made invasion, hence the atomic bomb, unnecessary. However, other scholars have argued that the bombings shocked the Japanese government into surrender, with Emperor finally indicating his wish to stop the war. Another argument in favor of the atomic bombs is that they helped avoid Operation Downfall, or a prolonged blockade and bombing campaign, any of which would have exacted much higher casualties among Japanese civilians. Historian Richard B. Frank wrote that a Soviet invasion of Japan was never likely because they had insufficient naval capability to mount an amphibious invasion of Hokkaidō.

Question: America dropped what on August 6, 1945?

Question: What was the forst Japenese city nuked by the United States?

Question: What was the name of the blockade and bombing of Japan planed to make them surrender?

Question: When did American drop a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki?

Question: Who wrote that a Soviet invasion of Japan was unlikely?
Passage: The Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation began on 9 August 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and was the last campaign of the Second World War and the largest of the 1945 Soviet–Japanese War which resumed hostilities between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan after almost six years of peace. Soviet gains on the continent were Manchukuo, Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia) and northern Korea. The rapid defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army has been argued to be a significant factor in the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II, as Japan realized the Soviets were willing and able to take the cost of invasion of its Home Islands, after their rapid conquest of Manchuria and Invasion of South Sakhalin island.

Question: When did the soviet Union invade Manchukuo?

Question: What was the last campaign of World War II?

Question: What was the largest campaign of the Soviets against Japan?

Question: Who gained Manchukuo, Mengjiang, and northern Korea after the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Campaign?

Question: When did hostilities between Japan and the Soviet Union resum after six years of peace?
Passage: The effects of the "Twin Shocks"—the Soviet entry and the atomic bombing—were profound. On 10 August the "sacred decision" was made by Japanese Cabinet to accept the Potsdam terms on one condition: the "prerogative of His Majesty as a Sovereign Ruler". At noon on 15 August, after the American government's intentionally ambiguous reply, stating that the "authority" of the emperor "shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers", the Emperor broadcast to the nation and to the world at large the rescript of surrender, ending the Second World War.

Question: How did the Japanese refer to the atomic bombings and the Soviet invasion?

Question: When did Japan surrender?

Question: What was the one condition Japan wanted before accepting the Potsdam terms?

Question: What was the reply to Japan about the surrender condition?

Question: What was it called when the Japanese Cabinet accepted the Potsdam terms?
Passage: In Japan, 14 August is considered to be the day that the Pacific War ended. However, as Imperial Japan actually surrendered on 15 August, this day became known in the English-speaking countries as "V-J Day" (Victory in Japan). The formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on 2 September 1945, on the battleship USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay. The surrender was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, with representatives of several Allied nations, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu and Yoshijiro Umezu.

Question: What date does Japan consider the end of the Pacific War?

Question: What day is know in the United States as "V-J Day"?

Question: When did Japan formally have signed the surrender?

Question: On what battleship was the surrender document signed by the Japanese delagation?

Question: Who accepted the Japanese surrender?
Passage: A widely publicised example of institutionalised sexual slavery are "comfort women", a euphemism for the 200,000 women, mostly from Korea and China, who served in the Japanese army's camps during World War II. Some 35 Dutch comfort women brought a successful case before the Batavia Military Tribunal in 1948. In 1993, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono said that women were coerced into brothels run by Japan's wartime military. Other Japanese leaders have apologized, including former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001. In 2007, then-Prime Minister Shinzō Abe claimed: "The fact is, there is no evidence to prove there was coercion."

Question: How many women are believed to have been sexual slaves for the Japenese Army?

Question: In 1948, how many Dutch women brought a case to the Batavia Military Tribunal?

Question: In 2001 which Japanese Prime <Minister apologized for the brothels.

Question: In 2007 which Japenese Prime Minister said there was no proof of coercion of women to be sexual slaves?

Question: Where were the sexual slave women mostly from?
Passage: Australia had been shocked by the speedy collapse of British Malaya and Fall of Singapore in which around 15,000 Australian soldiers became prisoners of war. Curtin predicted that the "battle for Australia" would now follow. The Japanese established a major base in the Australian Territory of New Guinea in early 1942. On 19 February, Darwin suffered a devastating air raid, the first time the Australian mainland had been attacked. Over the following 19 months, Australia was attacked from the air almost 100 times.

Question: About how many Australians were taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore and British Malaya?

Question: In what year did Japan establish a base in New Guinea?

Question: What date was the Australian mainland first attacked?

Question: What mainland Australian city was attacked by the Japanese on February 19?

Question: For how many months was Australia attacked from the air by Japan?
Passage: Richmond is located at the fall line of the James River, 44 miles (71 km) west of Williamsburg, 66 miles (106 km) east of Charlottesville, and 98 miles (158 km) south of Washington, D.C. Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288. Major suburbs include Midlothian to the southwest, Glen Allen to the north and west, Short Pump to the west and Mechanicsville to the northeast.

Question: Richmond is located at what line of the James river?

Question: At what intersections is the Richmond located?

Question: What counties are located? around Washington.D.C?

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Question: What are the major roads in Richmond?

Question: What is the closest historically famous city is 44 miles away?

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Question: Name at least two major suburbs of Richmond.

Question: How many miles east of Richmond is Williamsburg?

Question: How many kilometers west of Charlottesville is Richmond?

Question: Leaving Washington DC, what cardinal direction would one travel to reach Richmond?

Question: What is Richmond's southwestern suburb?

Question: Where is Short Pump located in relation to Richmond?
Passage: The site of Richmond had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610–1611. The present city of Richmond was founded in 1737. It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780. During the Revolutionary War period, several notable events occurred in the city, including Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in 1775 at St. John's Church, and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson. During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America. The city entered the 20th century with one of the world's first successful electric streetcar systems, as well as a national hub of African-American commerce and culture, the Jackson Ward neighborhood.

Question: Richmond was an important city of what confederacy?

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Question: Who was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Passage: Richmond's economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government, with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, as well as notable legal and banking firms, located in the downtown area. The city is home to both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, one of 13 United States courts of appeals, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, one of 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Dominion Resources and MeadWestvaco, Fortune 500 companies, are headquartered in the city, with others in the metropolitan area.

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Question: What judicial branches are located in Richmond?

Question: There is a Federal Reserve Bank located in Richmond. How many are there, total?

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Question: Along with law and finance, what is a major component of Richmond's economy?

Question: What circuit of the US Court of Appeals is based in Richmond?

Question: How many circuit courts of appeal are there in the United States?

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Question: Along with MeadWestvaco, what Fortune 500 company is based in Richmond?