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.
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
The attack on Pearl Harbor killed 2,400 Americans and wounded another 1,200. Of those dead, 1,103 sailors and marines were killed when a Japanese bomb penetrated the battleship USS Arizona, sinking the ship and the men aboard it. The USS Oklahoma, another battleship, was also sunk with heavy loss of life. The other six battleships were damaged, and so were a number of cruisers and destroyers. However, Over 340 of the 400 aircraft on Oahu were destroyed or damaged as
Pearl Harbor At 7:55 on the sunny morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, 183 Japanese warplanes swooped out of a cloudless sky and demolished the US Pacific fleet docked at Pearl Harbor. Of the 100 ships in Pearl Harbor, their main targets were the eight battleships anchored there. At 8:10, a 1,800-pound bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona and landed in her forward ammo magazine the ship exploded and sank with more than 1,000 men trapped inside. Then, torpedoes pierced the shell of the battleship USS Oklahoma, with 400 sailors aboard, the Oklahoma lost her balance, rolled onto her side and slipped underwater. The U.S. forces were taken by surprise as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Maybe it wasn't right to send all Japanese Americans to camps, but U.S. officials didn't see much of an option. Another Effect is that U.S. finally decided to enter WWII when before they tried to stay neutral. Overall the Japanese sank or severely damaged 18 ships, including the 8 battleships, three light cruisers, and three destroyers. On the airfields the Japanese destroyed 161 American planes (Army 74, Navy 87) and seriously damaged 102 (Army 71, Navy
One of his missions was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Lt. McDaniel was a member of the 325th Fighter Group, the “Checkertail Clan.” One of his missions was to destroy 5 German aircrafts to become an ACE in one single day. Without these men, and many others, sharing their missions, the history of WWII would not be the
battleships. Killed 3,500 U.S. sailors, pilots, ground service personnel, civilians. But it is still only one battle. The real result of the attack on Pearl Harbor is the most powerful in the industrial and technological country entered the war against the Axis. Japanese Navy Commander Admiral Yamamoto mumble that day "This is the beginning of the end.
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
Many argue that the U.S. did it mainly because of revenge of Pearl Harbor which was also a tragic event in history. On december 7th, 1941 Japanese Pilots attacked Pearl Harbor without warning. With the use of machine guns and bomber planes
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