5+World+War+II

A Bomb

 * On August 6 th and 9 th, 1945, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in war. The first atomic bomb ever to be used in a military operation was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 at 8:16 am (Hiroshima time). The bomb, named "Little Boy" exploded 1,900 feet above the courtyard of Shima Hospital. It had a force equal to 12,500 tons of TNT. By the end of 1945, 140,00 people died from the bombing. Within the next five years, another 60,000 would die of bomb related causes.


 * The bomb killed men, women, and children. It killed both military workers and civilians. Eve though the city produced military items and housed soldiers, President Truman said it was not selected as a "purely military target". There were six civilians in Hiroshima to every soldier.

=**Pearl Harbor**=

= = =D-Day=
 * The Japanese military saw the American naval strength as a reason to go to war with America.
 * Their though was before we were able to recover from the surprise attack the Japanese could seize all their objectives in far east and hold out against us. This was call operation Z
 * Nagumo’s force sailed from Kuriles 26 November 1941 and got there undetected on December 7 1941
 * Pearl Harbor was the bulk of the U.S fleet.
 * 8 battle ships of our fleet where there.
 * Attack began at 7:55 on December 7 1941 and ended some time after 10:00
 * Americans quickly recovered and a fought with antiaircraft weapons.
 * The Japanese completed their goal and ended up sinking 3 battle ships severely damaged a 4th one and caused one to capsize. 2 of which were raised and fixed and where able to be used again.
 * The Japanese all together sunk/severely damaged 18 ships, 3 light cruisers, 3 destroyers, 161 planes and seriously damaged 102
 * There were 2,896 casualties 2,117 of them were deaths and 779 wounded.
 * 4 days after the attack German and Italy declared war on U.S

The Normandy landings were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 AM. During planning, D-Day was the term used for the day of actual landing, which was waiting on final approval.

The assault was put into two phases: an air assault landing of 24,000 American, British, Canadian and Free French airborne troops after midnight, and an landing of Allied infantry and armored divisions on the coast of France starting at 6:30 AM. There were also smaller 'attacks' mounted under the codenames Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable to distract the German forces from the real landing areas.

The operation was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, with over 175,000 troops landing on 6 June 1944. 195,700 Allied naval and Merchant Navy personnel in over 5,000 ships were involved. The invasion required the transport of soldiers and materiel from the United Kingdom by troop-laden aircraft and ships, the assault landings, air support, naval interdiction of the English Channel and naval fire-support. The landings took place along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast divided into five sectors.

__Island Hopping__

This is a counter-offensive attack that establishes a line of military bases also as an air strike. The reason for this is to take down little islands until Japan came close to American bombers. This was all led by General Douglas Mac Arthur. The first stage of the offense began with the Navy under Nimitz and marine landings on Guadalcana and nearby islands in the Solomons. So this was to keep Japan away and if they tried to come in then the american bombers would have to do something.

Josh's Quote- Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. -General George S. Patton Nate's Quote- "The world must know what happened and never forget"
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