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The attack on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor claimed th lives of almost 2,400 American servicemen, President Roosevelt said that this day will live in infamy. With most of the ships and planes damaged they raced to get another fleet to defeat Japan. -
Flying tigers
They were American volunteer Group they were polots of the U.S. army. They went into combat on December 20, 1941. Their mission was to protect the Burma Road connecting the vital port at Rangoon with the rest of China -
Death at Bataan
Japan Forces defeated a combined U.S. and Filipino army in the Battle of Bataan, in the Philipines. They then forced more than 70,000 captured soldiers to march more than 60 miles north in brutally hot weather to a captured U.S. army base. The defeat on the Bataan Peninsula marked the largest military surrender in American history. -
Bataan Death March
surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanes guards. -
Battle of the Aleutian Islands
U.S. troops fought to remove Japanese garrisons established on a pair of U.S. owned islandswest of Slaska. The Japan seized the remote islands of Attu and Kiska.In May 1943 retook Attu and three months later took kiska back -
Leyete GUlf
Japan and the United States waged largest naval battle of World War II and one of the largest in history. They were fight over control of the Philippine Islands in the South Pacific. The U.S. won and Japan's navy was crippled, This stopped mounting any significant resistance to future allied advances -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler ordered the only major German counteroffensive of the war in northwest Europe. Its objective was to split the Allied armis by means of a suprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.Then three German armis launched the deadliest and most desperate battle of the war in the west in the poorly roaded, rugged, heavily forested Ardennes. Acrucial German shortage of fuel and the gallantry of American troops fighting in the frozen forests. it was the costliest action -
Iwo Jima
Marines began their assault on Iwo Jima, a small island in southeren japan some 600 miles of tokyo. IT was one of the highest causalty rates of World War II. Then a volcanic outcropping happened and tremendous strategic importance to both U.S. and Japanes forces -
VIctory in Japan
On August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered unconditionally. SInce then August 14 and 15th has been known as V-J day. Japan capitulation the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a end -
THe Atomic Bomb
U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Killing more than 100,000 peoople and exposing tens of thousands more to radiation. Then Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surredner.
