WW2: Pacific Theater Trivia
From the 'infamy' of Pearl Harbor to the 'Typhoon of Steel' at Okinawa, see if you have the tactical genius to survive the island-hopping campaign.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
During Operation Ten-Go in 1945, the battleship Yamato was sent to defend Okinawa with only enough fuel for what type of journey?
One-way
Named after the pilot's mother, what B-29 Superfortress dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945?
Enola Gay
Before being ordered to evacuate to Australia, which U.S. General led the defense of the Philippines and famously vowed "I shall return"?
Douglas MacArthur
During the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf, what specific Philippine strait was the site of history's final battleship-to-battleship gunnery action?
Surigao Strait
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi famously broke with Japanese tradition on Iwo Jima by banning what type of suicidal mass human-wave assaults?
Banzai charges