Victory in the Pacific

In the early part of the war in the Pacific, the Japanese were better soldiers than Americans because the Japanese saw themselves as expendable and they lived by “death before surrender.” In addition, they were better trained and equipped. The war in the Pacific was very important for the US because the US defeated the Japanese. At Midway, the Japanese were going to trap the Americans, but it ended up being the Americans trapping the Japanese. The Americans broke the Japanese war code and bombed the island. The Japanese lost 25,000 fighters and pilots. It was very big loss- a loss that was not replaceable. The war had a major impact on the Japanese Americans. People thought they could have been spies and were suspicious of them. People of Japanese ancestry were evacuated and shipped off by train to camps. 120,000 spent most of the war living in camps in California, Texas and Washington.