Today Zach Harris and Tara Benner are supposed to continue their presentation but they are not reliable enough to get their stuff on their website. Then Nick and I are supposed to go but our presentation is taking almost an hour to load today. SO that means that Zach O. Ben B. and Duy Vo are starting their presentation today. Here is Duy’s part of the presentation.
The Philippine Campaign:
The Campaign lasted from 1941 to 1942. This was between the Philippines and Japan. Japan invaded the Philippines to start this. The United States were allies to the Philippines so we got involved in this part of the war. The Japanese took the city of Manila which resulted in them having a Death March that included over 36,000 American and Filipinos deaths. The Japanese occupied the Philippines from 1942 to 1945. On January 9, 1945 General Douglas Macarthur invaded the Philippines by force beginning the second battle for the Philippines. On February 4 1945, the United States entered Manila and completely controlled the city within three weeks.
Battle of Coral Sea:
Took place from May 4-8, 1942. The Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied Naval forces and Air Forces fought in this battle. Japan planned this attack to take over New Guinea so that they could build airfields on Tulagi and take control of the shipping lanes between the Americans and Australia. The Americans lost a carrier, a tanker, and a destroyer in this battle. Our Military was based in Australia at this point.
Nagasaki:
The Bombing of Nagasaki on the morning of August 9, 1945. The B-29 was controlled by Charles W. Sweeny. This airplane was carrying the nuclear bomb code named “Fat Man” was dropped from 11:02 am. The Bomb damaged the factory that made type 91 torpedoes from the Pearl Harbor attack. About 30 people survived Hiroshima that fled to Nagasaki just in time to be bombed again. Casualties estimated from 40,000 to 75,000 and at the end of 1945 casualties totaled about 80,000 including maybe 13 POW’s. This resulted in the “Bombing” because the Japanese General would not accept defeat and they did not think that the US would risk millions of casualties on trying to take over Japan.
Ben continued his part of the presentation:
Australia’s role:
Australia played a major role in the New Guinea Campaign. New Guinea is a large land mass north of Australia that would provide good land for naval bases and landing stripes for the Air force and a good docking station for the Navy. POW’s were held by the Japanese and made up nearly half of Australia’s deaths in the Pacific.
Kamikaze Attacks:
These were suicide attacks that killed the pilot and destroyed enemy ships along with it. A person would fly a plane into a ship, losing one life to kill many enemies. This was an effective tactic but the Japanese had a hard time finding people who would kill themselves for pride in Japan. 56% of Japan’s merchant ships were destroyed by submarines. This would cut off most of Japan’s major imports such as oil at this time.
Zach Osborn started his presentation today and here is his information and he will finish tomorrow:
Background:
WW II was between the Allied powers and The Empire of Japan.
Pearl Harbor:
There were two attack waves on Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto knew that the three main US ships were not in the Harbor at the time of the attack, but he decided to attack anyways. The US wanted an excuse to get involved in the war, and this was a good excuse.
Submarine Warfare:
56% of Merchant ships were sunk by submarines.
Iwo Jima:
The US fought and captured Iwo Jima from Japan. There were many gruesome battles on this island. Flamethrowers and grenades were used to kill the enemies hiding in the bunkers. The bunkers caused many different types of casualties from the allied and the axis soldiers. The US did not think that there would be any survivors in the bunkers. Artillery and Machine Guns were used to clear out the Japanese from their bunkers.
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