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Island Fighting in the Pacific War
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The island fighting in the Pacific during World War II was a war of annihilation where each position had to be wiped out one by one due to the unbreakable morale of the Japanese soldiers. The soldiers fought with an intensity that had no parallel and a sense of fatalism amongst the troops was created due to the combination of workmen-like and extremely deadly tactics.
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