WW2 Pacific Theater Events

  • Louie Enlists in the Air Force

  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The day Japan Bombed a US base in Hawaii
  • Doolittle Raid

    Doolittle Raid
    The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States of America on the Japanese capital Tokyo
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway
    The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Air raid of Nauru Island

    Air raid of Nauru Island
    the Japanese were trying to exploit US phosphate plants and take control of the island
  • B-29 Fly by (unbroken)

    The first time they saw an american plane fly by while they were working in the third camp.
  • Roosevelt died while the POWs were in the third camp

    Roosevelt died on the 12th but the officers did not tell the POWs until the day after
  • Louie got punched in the face by 200+ men

    As a punishment by the bird Louie along with other men acused of stealing food.
  • Louie held log above his head for 38 minutes

    The Bird made Louie hold a long over his head as a punisment for taking a break while he was working.
  • First Atomic Bomb dropped

    First Atomic Bomb dropped
    On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day
    Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.