What was the japanese version of Stalingrad during WW2?

>>1404377
Pearl Harbour t.b.h.

>>1404377
Okinawa or Iwo Jima, take your pick.

Midway

>>1404377

the defense of mainland Japan.

oh wait, nuclear weapons sry.

>>1404377
If you mean their high water mark: Guadalcanal. If you mean where they definitively had lost the war: Battle of the Coral Sea.

>>1404394
This is the correct answer.

>>1404377
Can't believe no one said Guadalcanal.

There were a lot of battles where they dug in and fought fanatically.

They lost all of them though.

>>1404394
>>1404423

wrongm it was leyte

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>>1404377
Manila, hands down.
>Japanese force annihilated.

leyte gulf


largest naval engagement in history, akin to the worst siege in history, Stalingrad

>>1404433
Leyte destroyed the Japanese navy. Midway crippled it. Stalingrad crippled the German army but didn't destroy it.

in terms of just hell-on-earth misery for soldiers, Guadalcanal.

but as for a turning point that cemented eventual defeat? Midway.

>>1404476
Leyte is more comparable to Kursk imo. Largest Naval battle for the largest Tank battle

it was Japan's last gasp at an offensive initiative, and once it was lost, Japan virtually had no ability to fight back.

>>1404479
Eh, Leyte was the coup de grace. The IJN had been rendered impotent at midway where the loss I'm carriers and crew were literally irreplaceable.

>>1404394
This