Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack only lasted about two hours but the damage was catastrophic for our United States Navy. “The Japanese managed to destroy nearly twenty American naval vessels, including eight
Tyler Kvetensky The Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima was long and hard. It took many days and many troops lives. The Marines came out successful in the end. The battle lasted from the 19th of February to the 26th of March 1945. The first carrier raids against Iwo Jima began in June 1944.
Iwo Jima was an extremely small island between the mainland and the Mariana Islands. U.S commanders wanted the island captured to use the airfields on the islands to carry out other attacks. The Japanese were ready for the attack and transformed the battlefield into a network of tunnels hiding themselves from U.S soldiers. The Japanese baited the U.S. forces by hiding underground, before bombarding the U.S. with machine gun fire. 30,000 soldiers landed on the island of Iwo Jima and 6,800 were killed during the fighting and over 20,000 were injured, but the U.S. forces claimed victory on March 26th
According to many soldiers, they each had many tough missions. Col. Seaton, Lloyd H Bunting, and Lt. Gordon McDaniel, all had missions in WWII. Col. Seaton loaded 500lb bombs in the morning of November 29, 1942. He said “brother that is a job winding them up by hand.” Lloyd Bunting was an air force pilot. One of his missions was the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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.
Military Status before and during the war i. Japan The Japanese were uncommonly treacherous and savage, their army was the strongest in the pacific before the Americans decided to join the war. Even before the fall of Saipan in June 1944, Japanese planners knew that Iwo Jima would have to be reinforced significantly if it were to be held for any length of time, and preparations were made to send sizable numbers of men and quantities of materiel to that island. Thus the Japanese began preparing their defences mainly using nature, by this meaning that they started fortifying the caves. Thus General Kuribayashi ordered that mining engineers were dispatched from Japan to draw blueprints for projected underground fortifications that would consist of elaborate tunnels at varying levels to assure good ventilation and minimize the effect of bombs or shells exploding near the entrances or exits . in terms of military forces General Kuribayashi had a plan called water's edge defence strategy, but however he later abandoned it.
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
Battle of Midway Fought around the Central Pacific Island of Midway, this battle was one important battle that decided that controlled the Pacific. Prior to this engagement, the Japanese captured many territories throughout Asia and the Pacific. With this offensive mindset in place, they wanted to control Midway, and turn that location into a sophisticated military installation and use the area to defeat the United States Pacific Fleet. What caused the Japanese to loose this well thought out plan? The focus of this paper is to determine how the outcome of this battle became and the significance of this battle.
Their first job was to take out the Howitzers that were targeting the Utah beach. For the next few days they continuously fought until they were called back to England. If Easy Company didn’t do this job; then D-Day would not have succeeded. They also help destroy Hitler’s colossal iron curtain. The iron curtain was an inpenetrateable wall of men and steel that no country could penetrate until the United States joined World War 2.
During this battle, the Allies were surrounded by German troops on every side. They fought hard for hours, until the German Army broke through. The Allies charged into the broken lines, and fought face to face with the Germans. The German assault created a large bulge in the lines, resulting in their offensive being called, “The Battle of the Bulge.” The only reason the battle was such a success for the Allies, was the smallest thing imaginable, gasoline. Hitler’s Panzers were basically out of gas and could not run anymore.