March 28,2013

[2Asia]

Today we reviewed what we did yesterday.
island hopping was people would attack larger islands and they would just skip the other smaller ones.
We would use these little islands that are close to bombers to bomb japan. it made us closer. We kept island hoping our way to japan.
island of coral sea- it was a naval battle(planes). in between austarilia and new ginny. it was an air battle only air planes fighting eachother. the result was that japanese was said to won because they took out more planes then we did them. but no one actually won cause we stopped them! if they were to win they might have turned to australia. because they were still british colonies. invasion never happened. but they did try to bomb. they never beat us because we never surrender.
Chester Nimitz was the commander of the navy army! he was the won that led this coral sea battle.
Japan never really advanced after that.
Battle of midway- between asia. japanese plan was to lower the naval planes into a trap. but that did not work. it was obvious that japan was gonna lose. and japan was never able to keep up with the damage that we were doin to them. they lasted three years though. so some credit can be  had by them. This was the major turning event. where we totally killed and destroyed them! magic and ultra was like we had there play book but they didnt have ours. japan did some damage. but not near as bad as what we did to them!
Iwo Jima-Feb 19,1945. it was a n=month long. it was one of the bloodiest battles. and from the start japan knew that they were not gonna win. they lost 21,000 men. where we only loast 6,000 men. they lost about 90% of there army. This was a plane, ships, land battle.
They rose the flag in iwo jima at Mt. Suribachi. they first flag was very small. so they said they wanted to see it easier from below. so they rose a bigger one.
Macarthur was the general of the US army! he said he was not gonna leave. but he also said he would return, because he was not gonna leave! many US soilders were takin captive. so he would return. japanese were not kind to people under there control. such as the rape of nanking. the paton battle. we lost in the phillipines but we will return.
Okinawa was truly a japanese island. it was the first island that we took from japan. We would bomb them because we got a good distance to bomb. a kamikaze would thought to change the war to japan. they would celebrate the night before they sent one out. it was a sucide bomb. japanese believed in reincarnation as they would come back as a better  person.