It happened on an 8 square mile island that took the mane, Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima, par 1). American troops were told that their goal was to take the airfield of Iwo Jima for the future bombing of Tokyo. The Japanese were assigned to kill ten American soldiers before they had the right to die. The battle lasted from February 19, 1945 to March 26, 1945, which was a little over a month,. In thirty-six days there were nearly twenty-six thousand US casualties, almost seven thousand American troops were KIA (Hama, Erksine and Williams 98).
The plan for the Battle of the Somme was to assemble a huge new army of soldiers. The men and supplies would be stockpiled in the reserve trenches. German trenches would be bombarded solidly for 7 days. The British fired over 1,500,000 shells at the German lines, which should have destroyed the German dug-outs (which were 9 metres deep), tear up their barbed wire and kill most of the Germans. Also 10 mines would be dug under the German strong points.
There is no official casualty figure for D-Day but it is estimated that more than 425,000 allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the battle (Allies prepare for D-Day, 2011). The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was the largest land battle of World War II. “More than a million men participated in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British” (Lopez, 2009). The Battle of the Bulge was one of the worst battles in terms of losses of American Forces in World War II. At the end of the battle the casualties were highest out of the entire war.
The reading, “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Bomb,” by Robert James Maddox, explains the process taken in for the Americas to decide to drop the two newly discovered atomic bombs over the Japanese homeland cities of Hiroshima and three days later Nagasaki. Americans should be well informed on this information. This is a perfect article for this class because it marks a very important milestone in our nation’s history. The Japanese were a strong powerful enemy of the US during the end of WWII. “The Japanese had more than 2,000,000 troops in the home lands, and were training millions of irregulars” pg.
Jewish people, Slavs, and all non-white people were deemed unfit by the Nazis. 9. Why did the United States enter World War II? After the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, the United States entered WWII. 10.
During the Pre-invasion of Okinawa on 24 March 1945 the Indianapolis bombarded the beach defenses for seven days. Raining down 8in shells opened the door to get troops on the ground. On the morning of 31 March a Japanese fighter was spotted in its way to the Indianapolis. Quickly the ships 20mm gun opened fire but by the time the enemy plane was shot down it was to late. The Japanese plane dropped a bomb that blew a hole in the keel flooding nine compartments.
It killed nearly 2,500 people, caused the entrance of the US into World War Two, and changed the nation in other extravagant ways. Even though the attack of Pearl Harbor began on December 7th 1941, citizens of Oahu, Hawaii could feel that the atmosphere around
On June 6, 1944 the largest amphibious assault in history took place. The morning of the Invasion of Normandy, the beaches in the area of Cotentin, France, were bombarded with over 5,000 tons of bombs, destroying anti-invasion equipment and de-mining many areas. After the bombardment over 100,000 soldiers swam ashore, and roughly 11,700 paratroopers were dropped to secure Normandy Beach. There were a lot of casualties for the invasion, 5,436 were either killed or wounded. Fifty-seven thousand prisoners were taken, and only 4,000 French and 2,700 American lives were lost.
Band Of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose In 1942, the United States entered World War 2 after the Japanese fleet attacked the U.S. Naval base at Pearl on the side of the Allied forces, Canada, Britain, and Russia. This turned the tide of the war in favor of the allies and over the next few years Hitler's forces were pushed back across Europe which left Hitler with only Germany and France under his control. By the spring of 1943, the Allied High Command was able to go on the offensive and as such began planning a major offense for the spring of 1944. This operation was given the Code name "Operation Overlord" and was designed to provide the Allied forces with a foothold in German occupied France from which they could liberate the rest of France and then advance into Germany.
Pearl Harbor Research Paper Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 a day America will always remember, the attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. Eighteen U.S. ships were sunken or badly damaged. More than two thousand Americans were killed and many wounded. The attack on Pearl Harbor, a day that will always be remembered in America, brought the United States out of its neutral policies and into World War 2. The attack on Pearl Harbor was deviously planned by the Japanese as a diversion to keep the U.S air force out of the war for a few months, so Japan could quickly conquer South East Asia without the worries of America joining the current war.