What was the importance of the Japanese taking the outer most Aleutian Islands and MIdway?

Question

And why was MIdway so important to the Americas?

Answer 1

Japanese occupation of the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, as continental U.S. possessions, represented a psychological victory. Midway was to have been used as a Japanese forward base for launching attacks on the western United States. Of course, the Japanese failed in their attempts to take Midway. They did, however, occupy Attu and Kiska during the "forgotten war" before being anihilated by U.S. forces. Every Japanese soldier who set foot on Attu or Kiska died there. No Japanese surrendered, and all died there, some by suicide. American forces suffered significant casualties, somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 American KIA's if memory serves me. Many of the fallen American soldiers are buried in one of two military cemeteries on Attu.

Answer 2

The Aleutians campaign was a diversionary assault on US territory to lure US Naval forces from Japan's main target-Midway. Midway was the last US outpost in the central Pacific.
From Aleutian air bases Japan could strike targets in the pacific northwest.
In any event US breaking of the Japanese naval code made Japan's Aleutian campaign superfluous.

Answer 3

What if Japan had attacked Wake and halfway on seventh December 1941, rather of Hawaii? that is a desirable question. the yank plans in the form of a conflict with Japan have been to seek for a battleship-led disagreement in mid-Pacific. If those plans have been observed, and eight battleships have been jumped by ability of six service-various plane so as that they've been sunk quite a few miles deep (of the 8 battleships broken at Pearl, six have been lower back on lively provider interior of eighteen months) - nicely, what then? it might only approximately by no ability have replaced to consequence of the conflict - regardless of the undeniable fact that it ought to've taken longer for the Allies to win.

Answer 4

The Japanese were island hopping for the same reasons the Americans did--It gave them a toe hold from which to stretch to still another objective. NASA does that in rockets, they are called stages. One stage builds momentum for the next.

While these staged advances didn't seem to work so well from the examples you gave, that is how they conquered the Philippines, much of China, all of southeast Asia, most of Indonesia. So while there are examples of where it didn't work, the examples of where it did were numerous.

Answer 5

From what I remember - It was so important because it was midway in the middle of the ocean and could serve as a docking port for troops and a stopping off point for aircraft so they could refuel