Capture of Japanese Islands

The Americans want to end the war. So, they wanted to end it by capturing two Japanese islands in the Pacific Ocean. This will weaken the Japanese. I think this is a good idea as the Japanese will run back to their homeland to recapture the islands again. Then, the American planned to attack from these islands they had captured. On February 1945, the Americans landed on the island, Iwo Jima. They want to use the airfield an Iwo Jima to land and refuel their warplanes. This is a good idea as they would need lesser time to go back and forth in between their bombing on Japan and have more destruction. The next month, they succeeded on capturing the island. The Americans landed on another island, Okinawa. They also want to control the airfields on this island. This happened on the following month. This happened quite fast. I think they did a very good job on capturing these islands. After that, bombs were dropped on Japan almost everyday. As the war continued, Japan suffered great losses. It was not able to produce warplanes, warships and weapons as it did not have much raw material. This is a good sign. This will make Japan's attack on us less devastating as they cannot throw bombs at us from they sky and the sea. It will also mean that the Japanese would surrender sooner or later. Provisions such as rice had to be rationed due to shortages. This again. How unlucky! I don't really like food rationing as I have to wait for my turn to get my food. As one of us said earlier, we have to start queuing at about 3 o'clock in the morning which is very hard to do.

Here is the map of Japan :

You can find Okinawa on the left bottom corner of this picture  and Iwo Jima on the right bottom corner of this picture .

Book : Ministry of Education, Singapore (2007) Interacting with Our World : Singapore Under Foreign
            Rule. Marshall Cavendish Education

Picture : http://sites.asiasociety.org/education/AsianArt/map.japan.gif