Transcript WW II
WW II U.S. ENTRANCE 1941 –45 PEARL HARBOR TO A BOMB PEARL HARBOR OAHU DEC 7TH 1941 33 JAPANESE SHIPS INCLUDING 6 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS SAILD 200 MILES UNDETEDTED. LAUNCHED 353 AIRCRAFT 6AM – 715AM 8 AM THEY CONVEREGED ON BATLE SHIP ROW AT PEARL HARBOR 1PM ALL BUT 29 RETURNED BY 1945 32 OF THE 33 SHIPS WOULD BE SUNK PEARL HARBOR DEC 7TH 7AM USS WARD SINKS JAPANESE MINI SUB 7AM RADAR PICKS UP JAPANESE AIRCRAFT IGNORED 7:55 AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR 12 B-17’S ATTEMPT TO LAND 8:25 2000 AMERICANS KILLED ON BATTLESHIP ROW ARIZONA SUNK IN 9 MINUTES 1100 MEN STILL ON BOARD PEARL HARBOR DEC 7TH ATTACK WAS NOT EXPECTED SUNDAY MORNING- ALL SHIPS LINED UP TIED TO TENDERS ALL AIRCRAFT LINED UP ON RUNWAYS USS NEVADA ONLY SHIP TO GET UNDERWAY DELIBERATLY GROUNDED SO AS NOT TO BLOCK ENTRANCE TO HARBOR TACTICAL VICTORY STRATEGIC DEFEAT JAPANESE GAINED TOTAL AND COMPLETE SURPRISE LOST ALL SUBS AND ONLY 29 PLANES DESTROYED PACIFIC FLEET JAPANESE MISSED OIL FIELDS DRY DOCKS AND THE 3 AIRCRAFT CARRIERS LEXINGTON – YORKTOWNSARATOGA DESTROYER USS WARD DD139 MIDGET Japanese Sub bellows point JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER PRIOR TO ATTACK DECK OF SHOKAKU DEC 7 1941 VAL BOMBERS PREPARE TO ATTACK PEARL “ZERO” LEAVING AKAGI FOR PEARL KATE TORPEDO BOMBER LEAVING SHOKAKU Ford Island – Oahu HI BATTLESHIP ROW JAPANESE VIEW BATTLESHIP ROW AFTER BB39 EXPLODES BATTLESHIP ROW DURING ATTACK – JAPANESE PHOTO BB 39 USS ARIZONA BB 39 – OVER HALF OF THE DAYS CASUALTIES BB 39 AFIRE AND SINKING BB 39 DEC. 10 1041 BB 39 PORT BOW LOOKING AFT FOREMAST-CONNINGTURRET #2 FEB 1942 TURRET #3 #4 SALVAGE LAND USE MARCH 1943 SALVAGE USS VIRGINIA USS TENNESSEE USS VIRGINIA USS TENNESSEE USS CALIFORNIA USS CALIFORNIA KEEL USS OKLAHOMA STERN SUNKEN USS OKLAHOMA USS NEVADA AT HOSPITAL POINT USS NEVADA BATTLESHIP ROW AFTER THE ATACK DESTROYER USS SHAW USS CASSIN – DOWNESPENNSYLVANIA DAMAGED AIRCRAFT B-17C HICKAM FIELD HANGAR AND AIRCRAFT HICKAM FIELD PLANES AND HANGARS AT WHEELER FIELD VIEW FROM THE HILLS NORTH OF PEARL USS ARIZONA BB 39 TODAY Fall of the Phillipines DEC 1941-MAY 1942 OUTGUNNED OUTNUMBERED NO WAY TO REINFORCE – PACIFIC FLEET WAS DESTROYED ON DEC 7TH Battan Death March 76000 AMERICAN AND PHILLIPINOS SURRENDERED 6 DAY 60 MILE FORCED POW MARCH – RESULTED IN 5000 MURDERS CORREGIDOR FALLS LAST BASTION TO SURRENDER ISLAND GUARDING ENTRANCE TO MANILA BAY CALLED THE ROCK MAC ARTHUR’S LAST STRONHOLD Doolittle Raid APRIL 18TH 1942 16 B25 BOMBERS LEFT USS HORNET TO BOMB TOKYO MORAL BOOST ONE WAY MISSION 71 OF THE 80 MEN SURVIVED JAPANESE EMPIRE AT IT’S HEIGHT 1942 Battles for the Pacific 1941-45 ISLAND HOPPING 1942 United States begins to take back Pacific Islands used as airfields and supply stations Japanese would fight to the death on them Rabaul Last Japanese to surrender would be in the 1960’s CORAL SEA – USS LEXINGTON MAY 4-10 1942 FIRST NAVAL BATTLE WHERE SHIPS NEVER SAW EACH OTHER TURNING POINT JAPANESE ADVANCE IS STOPPED USS LEXINGTON ON FIRE CORAL SEA SHOKAKU ATTACKED CORAL SEA MIDWAY B-17 STRIKE ON HIRYU JUNE 4-7 1942 SECOND NAVAL BATTLE WHERE SHIPS DID NOT SEE EACH OTHER DEVESTATING TO JAPANESE CARRIERS USS YORKTOWN MIDWAY HIRYU ON FIRE DAY AFTER MIDWAY Battle of Solomon’s AUGUST 1942 PART OF THE ISLAND HOPING CAMPAGIAN TO CAPTURE AIRFIELDS AND PROTECT SUPPLY ROUTES TO GUADACANAL Battle for Guadacanal AUGUST 1942FEBRUARY 1943 90 MILES LONG 25 MILES WIDE HALTS JAPANESE ADVANCE IN PACIFIC TARAWA NOVEMBER 1943 1ST AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT TO HAVE RESISTANCE 3 DAY BATTLE FOR AIRFIELD 3301 US CASUALITIES 4836 JAPANESE KILED ALL BUT 146 Battle for Leyte Gulf OCTOBER 23-26 1944 MACARTHURS RETURN TO THE PHILLIPINES PACIFIC ISLAND LANDINGS PACIFIC ISLAND LANDINGS FAILED ATTEMPT IWO JIMA February –March 1945 Important island for B-29’s Japanese fought to the death 21000 entire force killed 6821 Americans lost Proved mainland invasion costly MOUNT SURRIBACHI IWO JIMA OKINAWA April-June 1945 Last step to mainland Japan – needed as B-29 base – more would die on this island than both of the ABombs victims 12,281Americans 110,000 Japanese ENOLA GAY Col. Tibbits Aug 6 1945 9000 pound Little Boy dropped 8:15 am from 31,000 feet 72,000 killed 70,000 of 76,000 buildings destroyed The Bombs Hiroshima = Little Boy and B-29 Enola Gay Aug 6 1945 Uranium 20,000 tons of TNT Instantly killed 70,000 Nagasaki = Fat Man and B-29 Bock’s Car Aug 9 1945 Plutonium 21,000 tons TNT Instantly killed 40,000 The bombings caused a fraction of the casualties of WW II Fire raids on Tokyo in 1945 killed over 100,000 and wounded over a million – in all WW II had 55 million casualties Hiroshima chosen as the only city not to have American POWs – military communication center population 300,000 Nagasaki secondary target Steel and Arms plant owned by Mitsubshi Why the Bomb Manhattan Project As the U.S forces approached Japan – the United States realized the Japanese people would fight to the death if an invasion occurred – measured in the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa Cost 1 million American lives – after first bomb Japan refused to surrender – HIROSHIMA GROUND ZERO HIROSHIMA FLATTENED LIMITS OF DESTRUCTION HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI DAMAGE NAGASAKI LITTLE BOY AND THE FAT MAN SURRENDER September 2 1945 aboard USS Missouri After 2 A-Bombs Fighting from 1936-1945 Declaration of war by Soviet Union on Japan JAPANESE DELEGATION SEPT 2 1945 USS MISSOURI ALLIED OFFICERS USS MISSOURI JAPAN SIGNS THE SURRENDER U.S. END OF WW II America left the war stronger than when they entered Cost 405,000 deaths Controlled 50%of the worlds wealth Pride in the defense of freedom and democracy U.S.S.R. END WW II Western Soviet Union destroyed by 1945 20 million Soviets died in the war Left 25 million homeless Developed buffer states – in eastern Europe