END OF WORLD WAR II-DEFEAT OF JAPAN.

 Japan captured the entire Pacific and grabbed all the territories like Guam, Philippines, Malaya, Thailand, Indonesia, and Burma.

But it was checked by the British on the borders of India by the British Indian army and by Australia and New Zealand in Guinea.

It wanted to make another attack on Pearl Harbour but as there was already one attack it was too well defended now. Therefore it preferred to hit Midway.

It assumed that the US would never think that Japan would attack Midway. But this information got leaked to American intelligence beforehand. With that the American navy was on a high alert at Midway.

The code name for the attack was AF. Not only had the US intelligence broke the code, it knew on which day and at what time the attack would commence. The US had an aircraft carrier by the name of Yorktown got damaged in a Japanese attack. Japan felt happy it was out of action. But the Americans got it repaired in 2 days’ time itself and brought in Yorktown again into action.

Japan aircraft carriers  Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu which played a main role in the Pearl Harbour attack. Japan attacked Midway in full flow and the battle went on tight.

The US carriers Hornet and Enterprise counter-attacked the Japanese. But the Japanese zero fighters neutralized their attack. After that Japan relaxed and sent its planes for refueling and for reloading of weapons.

Exactly at that time the American navy attacked the Japanese ships. The time difference between the two attacks was just 1 hour. Japan never imagined that the American navy would attack in just 1 hour and was taken by surprise.

With this attack, the Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga and Soryu were finished. The 4^th Japanese carrier Hiryu attacked Yorktown and damaged it. But the American navy attacked for the 3^rd time and finished off Hiryu as well.

With that big defeat, Japanese navy lost 4 carriers and became badly weakened. This gave an advantage to the Allies and they took the Japanese possessions in the pacific one by one.

But Japan said there is no question of surrender and they would fight to the last man. The nearer the Allied forces got to the main island of Japan the resistance increased fiercely.

One Japanese soldier was fighting equal to 10 allied soldiers for the sake of their country. America got frustrated with Japan and many Allied soldiers died. Military leaders estimated that to take Japan would have 1 million more casualties.

At that time the US got news that its Nuclear bomb experiment was a success and it opted for dropping a nuclear bomb on Japan to stop the war. It dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6t July 1945 and Hiroshima virtually ceased to exist but even then Japan did not agree to surrender. Then the US dropped another bomb on Nagasaki on 9^th July 1945. The Japanese soldiers were ready to die for their country but they were not ready to sacrifice innocent civilians for that and Japan finally surrendered on 2^nd September 1945.