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.
Jennifer Mrs. L English II Honors 11 April 2011 The Attack on Pearl Harbor On December 7th 1941 at 7:55 a.m. the U.S. naval base stationed at Oahu, Hawaii was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the Japanese nation. This was a devastating attack on the U.S nation and many lives were lost. Japan deceived America into thinking they wanted peace with America while planning the attack. Ignored warnings and miscommunication caused America to suffer greatly from the deceitful and surprise Pearl Harbor attack that the Japanese went to great lengths planning but inadvertently made a mistake by failing to realize the American resolve. The Japanese spent many careful months planning the people, date, time and outline for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
As the attack progressed, the loses for each side were great. The loses for the U.S are. 4 battleships sunk 3 battleships damaged 1 battleship grounded 2 destroyers sunk 1 other ship sunk 3 cruisers damaged 1 destroyer damaged 3 other ships damaged 188 aircraft destroyed 155aircraft damaged 2,402 killed 1,247 wounded The Japanese lost all these units. 4 midget submarines sunk 1 midget submarine grounded 29 aircraft destroyed 64 killed 1 captured The attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya.
Source one provides evidence of the tremendous damage caused by the bombing of Darwin. “In the first attack, which began just before 10.00 am, heavy bombers pattern-bombed the harbour and town; dive bombers escorted by Zero fighters then attacked shipping in the harbour, the military and civil aerodromes, and the hospital at Berrimah. The attack ceased after about 40 minutes. The second attack, which began an hour later, involved high altitude bombing of the Royal Australian Air Force base at Parap which lasted for 20–25 minutes. The two raids killed at least 243 people and between 300 and 400 were wounded.
The day of the incident two waves of planes attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The first hit its target at 7:53 a.m., the second at 8:55. By 9:55 the attack was over leaving Japan’s objective complete. America’s base was in chaos and 2,403 were dead, 188 planes destroyed and 8 damaged or destroyed battleships. By 1:00
However, the Battle of Coral Sea is an American victory because Americans stopped the Japanese from doing what they had planned to do, which was to isolate Australia and to attack and take capture of Port Moresby. The most significant loss during the Battle of Coral Sea was the sinking of the USS Lexington, the American carrier, after being hit by thirteen bombs and seven torpedoes. The Japanese lost forty three planes to only thirty three of the American
Five of the battleships sunk or damaged—and many of the sailors on them—went on to fight again, the ships earning a total of 36 battle stars for combat action. The attack was a strategic disaster for the Japanese, because they missed their primary targets: our aircraft carriers. At the time of the attacks, the USS Enterprise and USS Lexington had not yet returned from delivering aircraft to Wake and Midway Islands, and the USS Saratoga was at San Diego loading planes and cargo for Pearl Harbor. The carriers Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown would later deal the Japanese a defeat at the Battle of Midway from which they would never
Henry Pickman 9th Grade English News Story U.S Troops storm the volcanic beaches of Iwo Jima! On February 19th, 1945, the USMC (United States Marine Corps) and the Navy Seals attacked the Japanese island Iwo Jima with over seventy thousand troops. These marines and Navy Seals consisted of the Third, Fourth and Fifth divisions. Many Marines stated that “this battle was going to be no sweat”, but had the Marines known about the American bombings on the island had not even come close to putting a dent in the defenses or lowering the morale of the troops, they would have thought very differently. The troops also didn’t know about the vast expanse of tunnel systems under the island, because of these tunnels, combat between the Americans and Japanese would not be straightforward.
By 1 p.m the carriers that launched the attack from 274 miles away from the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan. That was a big turning point for the U.S it was a positive and negitive affect beacause it ended the great depression and gave americans jobs. a negitive affect was all the casualties it brought and all the hatred it brought towards the U.S. When the Japanese left there was 2,403 people died, and 188 battleships were destroyed. About three hours later the Japanese planes began
Was the U.S Justified in Bombing Japan? On December 7, 1941 the Japanese fighter pilots attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor(article 1). This surprise attack was done without a declaration of war. Pearl Harbor was hit by two waves of planes. The first wave, consisting of 134 bombers/fighters, was twenty-five minutes long and did much more damage than the second wave of flights.