Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is a natural harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. One of

the largest and best natural harbors in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, The

U.S. Military has set up many military installations. On Dec. 7, 1941,

while negotiations were going on with the Japanese in Washington,

Japanese carrier-based planes came in without warning over Oahu and

attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor. 19 Naval vessels,

including eight battleships, were sunk or severely damaged; 188 U.S.

aircrafts were destroyed. Casualties for the U.S. were 2,280 killed,

1,109 wounded, and 68 civilians also died. The next day, the United

States declared war on Japan.

On the morning of December 7, 1941, planes and submarines of the

Japanese Navy surprise attacked the US. This order was given by Vice

Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. This attack brought the United States into

World War II. Early in the morning on December 7th, six Japanese

carriers launched a wave of 181 planes, which consisted of torpedo

bombers, dive-bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. The Japanese

hit American ships and military installations with specialized

torpedoes especially made for this operation. They attacked military

airfields at the same time they hit the fleet anchored in Pearl

Harbor. Overall, there were twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet

were sunk or damaged.

Japan was originally reluctant to go to war with the United States.

The United States supplied Japan with over fifty percent of its steel,

oil, and iron, but Imperial Japan wanted to gain their own resources

so they no longer had to depend on the United States’s. On September

27, 1940, Japan ent...

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...Anzio, each carrying 1,500

tons of supplies in 50 trucks. After driving off the ships at Anzio,

the trucks moved directly to the front line with ammunition, fuel, and

rations. These trucks were replaced on the LSTs by the fifty empty

trucks that had made the voyage the previous day. In addition to LSTs,

fifteen smaller ships arrived each week, and every ten days four

massive "Liberty" ships delivered heavier equipment. Between 22

January and 1 June over 531,511 tons of supplies were unloaded at

Anzio, averaging 3,920 tons a day.

In conclusion, Anzio was a very bloody battle fought by the Allies

against mostly German forces. Because of this, the Allies were able to

eventually able to liberate Rome. This gave the Allies a foothold in

Italy. This caused Italy to eventually change sides and the Allies to

win the war.