The utter rout of the American battleships in Pearl
Harbor furnished Japanese forces' superiority over the joint naval
forces of the United States, Great Britain, Holland and Australia in
the Pacific Ocean, and enabled the offensive in the south, namely the
Philippines, Malaya and, eventually, Dutch East Indies. Therefore,
within few hours after the strike on Pearl Harbor, Japanese ships
showed up off Malaya and the Philippines, while the fleet coming back
from Pearl Harbor attacked American bases on Guam and Wake. Those two
islands make somewhat a bridge between Hawaii and the Philippines, and
therefore their seizure would break the natural link between the
Pacific Fleet and the Asian Fleet. More >>>
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