Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ka agha a na-alụ n'Ebe Ndịda Ọdịda Anyanwụ Pacific nọ na-aga n'ihu, ndị agha United States malitere ịwakpo ndị agha nọ n'Ebe Etiti Pacific, malite n'agha a lụrụ na Tarawa na November 1943. Mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ndị United States weghaara ebe ndị Japan nọ na Marshall Islands na Caroline Islands. N'ọnwa Juun nke afọ 1944, ndị US wakporo Saipan, na Mariana Islands, wee weghara agwaetiti ahụ na mbido ọnwa Julaị, ma gbuo puku mmadụ iri na anọ. Ka Agha Saipan gara n'ihu, ndị US meriri nnukwu agha mmiri na Agha Oké Osimiri Philippine, na-emikpu ụgbọelu ụgbọelu atọ nke Japan. Na July 1944, Roosevelt zutere Nimitz na MacArthur, ebe o nyere ikike ịga n'ihu na mkpọsa na Southwest Pacific na Central Pacific. Ndị agha MacArthur ga-anọgide na-aga n'ihu na Philippines, ebe mkpọsa Central Pacific ga-aga n'ihu na Japan. Mba Amerịka
rutere n'àgwàetiti Leyte dị na Philippines na Ọktoba 1944, na-akpali mmeghachi omume nke ndị agha mmiri Japan, ebe agwaetiti Philippines nọgidere na-enwe ọnọdụ dị oke mkpa na ụzọ ọkọnọ mmanụ Japan site na Dutch East Indies. E bibiri ndị agha mmiri nke Japan n'Agha Leyte Gulf, nke a na-ekwu mgbe ụfọdụ na ọ bụ "agha ụgbọ mmiri kasị ukwuu n'akụkọ ihe mere eme". Ndị agha MacArthur weghaara Leyte na December ma weghachite akụkụ ka ukwuu nke Philippines na March 1945.