Kampanye militer Kepulauan Mariana dan Palau

Kampanye militer Mariana dan Kepulauan Palau
	Bagian dari Medan perang Pasifik selama Perang Dunia Kedua
Tanggal	Juni – November 1944
Lokasi	Kepulauan Mariana dan Palau, Samudera Pasifik
Hasil	Kemenangan Amerika Serikat
Pihak terlibat
Amerika Serikat	Kekaisaran Jepang
Tokoh dan pemimpin
Chester Nimitz; Richmond K. Turner; Holland Smith; Raymond A. Spruance; Roy Geiger; Harry Schmidt; William H. Rupertus; Paul J. Mueller	Yoshitsugu Saito †; Chuichi Nagumo †; Jisaburo Ozawa; Kakuji Kakuta †; Takeshi Takashina †; Hideyoshi Obata †; Kiyochi Ogata †; Sadae Inoue; Kunio Nakagawa †
Korban
9,500 tewas	63,000+ tewas

Kampanye militer Mariana dan Kepulauan Palau atau juga dikenal sebagai Operasi Forager, merupakan serangan yang dilakukan oleh Amerika Serikat pasukan Kekaisaran Jepang di kepulauan Marina di Samudera Pasifik antara Juni sampai November 1944 selama Perang Pasifik pada Perang Dunia II Serangan Amerika Serikat dibawah komando penuh Chester Nimitz, diikuti dengan kampanye Kepulauan Gilbert dan Marshall dan bertujuan melumpuhkan pangkalan Jepang di tengah Pasifik, didukung oleh Pihak Sekutu untuk merebut kembali Filipina, dan memberikan pangkalan untuk kampanye pengeboman strategis menentang Jepang.

Setelah pendaratan mereka di Pulau Mariana dan Palau, pasukan Sekutu meneruskan kampanye yang akhirnya berhasil melawan Jepang dengan mendarat di Filipina pada Oktober, 1944 dan Pulau Volcano dan Ryuku yang dimulai pada Januari 1945.

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