Describe the Bangka Island Massacre. What does this event suggest about the actions and attitudes of the Japanese? The Bangka Island massacre was committed on 16 February 1942, when Imperial Japanese soldiers machine gunned 22 Australian Army nurses (only one survived) and some 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships (only two survived). This suggests that the Japanese are ruthless and remorseless as they seem to show no mercy towards the murders of these innocent civillians. 5. Who was Vivian Bullwinkel?
Imagining romantic camping trips into the White Mountains … tasting the envelope flaps, knowing her tongue had been there.” (Pg. 87) For Cross, Martha is not just a girl who sends him letters signed “Love,” she represents a life after the war, a life outside of the war, a life that includes romantic trips with a lover. The war is such a large strain on the soldiers, that they need something to look forward to and hope for, to get them through the war, and that is exactly what Martha is for Cross. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross tasting the envelope flaps shows just how infatuated he truly is with the idea of Martha. He will do anything that will give him even the slightest remembrance of how she smells or tastes.
Many soldiers recall this helpless moment where they could see their lives flash before their eyes and feel the anger, helplessness, and pain of that moment. As a result of this first attack, in addition to torpedoes, many US battle ships were annihilated as well as US planes that attempted to stop the attack. Ironically, Washington was just beginning to receive the news of the attack at the very same time that the Japanese were negotiating
One night a women name Wing sneak in some medicine to save Mrs. Roberts because she was really sick and people didn’t notice but among the girls they have a snitch in group. Next day morning the Japanese soldier Captain Tanaka burned Wing alive in front of all of us as a warning not to disobey and do anything we want. This is really bad
During these attacks the use of the shallow running torpedoes took the sailors by surprise for sure and the Battleships began to take damage the horror of the day just seemed to get more vivid. As crewmen scrambled for the anti-aircraft guns to try and defend their ships some as on the USS Arizona prepared for the worst day. Those top side jumped ship and the rest, 1,177
The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor 2 The Aftermath of Pearl Harbor Introduction On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attached by a fleet of Japanese Planes. The Japanese mission was to destroy the American’s entire main fleet to move them out of the Pacific. The Japanese plan was to hit the Americans with three wave strikes, one sea and two by air. The attack started, at 7:50 am. After three hours of torpedo and bomb attacks, 20 war ships and 150 aircrafts were destroyed along with battleship row and 2400 Americans were killed.
This is the same day that pearl harbor was being decimated by the Japanese. At that moment Indianapolis was assigned to a task force with the mission to find the Japanese carriers responsible for the attack, however the mission was unsuccessful. Throughout WWII the USS Indianapolis was involved with numerous Naval battles in the pacific including crucial battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. The Indianapolis was imperative in these clashes providing support for the landing. During the Pre-invasion of Okinawa on 24 March 1945 the Indianapolis bombarded the beach defenses for seven days.
used during the time period. The man with the red,white, and red suit showing strength and courage to avenge, by putting his hand up in the air. It also sights the japanese aircrafts bombing Pearl Harbor and crashing into Pearl Harbor. The publisher of the poster also shows how it was going to be a bad day by painting the sky orange. In the poster it also sights how the ships are being sunk and destroyed.
is by far the most regretful and inconsiderate action (to its citizens/passengers) the nation could have taken at such a war-driven time period in history. In Germany, newspaper reports on the sinking stated to its readers, “the Lusitania was an ‘armed cruiser’ carrying munitions and other war supplies and was therefore a legitimate target” (Ballard 126). Oceanographer and underwater archaeologist, Dr. Robert Ballard explains in an recent personal interview, “I was interested in what really sank the ship since the German submarine only fired one torpedo yet there were two explosions with the second being the more powerful of the two” (Robert D. Ballard). Germany had a strong belief that the U.S. was using passenger ships to send aid to enemy countries like the British and at this time, the U.S. already had numerous powder and explosive factories that produced war materials in mass
Japanese younger pilots with less combat experienced were strictly train not to waste their payloads in small targets as Carlisle illustrate in his book, and within minutes after the Japanese firing machine guns, dropping bombs and torpedo payloads they had hit all the battleships targets in the harbor. The USS Oklahoma was hit with nine torpedoes turn turtle and sink, killing 415 of her crew. He also says, a modified armor piercing bomb drop and hit the USS Arizona ammunition magazine and ignite a million and half pounds of explosives that tremble an indescribably fearful massive explosion and concussion, at an instant killing 1,171 of her crew including Admiral Kidd and Captain Van Valkenburgh (13). The USS Arizona suffers the most casualties of any of the battleship and made up over half of the total casualties of Pearl