Iwo Jima

commanders that no amount of naval and aerial bombardment would have significant effect on entrenched Japanese positions. Unlike Europe which had been fighting and surrendering for centuries, it was believed that the Japanese would not surrender. Iwo Jima, being much closer to Japan, the P-51 fighter aircraft could be stationed there to escort the bombers to and from the targets (Doc E). And later, to roam freely on their own to attack infrastructure at low altitude. The Enola Gay’s crew was…

On December 7th, 1941 the Japanese would stage a surprise attack on the United States in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was the site of the United States Navy’s Pacific base. Under the command of Japan a number of forces would be sent out in order to destroy American naval and air presence in the Pacific to render the United States incapable of stopping Japanese expansion. The results of this attack would be devastating, causing 2, 500 people to be killed and the United States battlefleet to…

On August 6 1945, the world had seen the first use of one of if not the deadliest weapon off all-time; The United States of America had dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both cities were completely and utterly decimated and the death toll is around two hundred thousand and fifty people. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 by the Americans still lies a very controversial issue with no definite answer. Both sides of the…

Acocella, Joan. "Slaying Monsters." The New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70. Student Edition. Web. 14 Nov. 2015. This literary criticism is about how a man named John Ronald Reuel that many encouraged him to translate the poem Beowulf since the author of this poem is anonymous and unknown. Although he did publish the piece of literature, he did not publish it. Eventually, his son published the piece of literature forty years after the death of his father. Making Beowulf a popular poem at that time. The…

might build one before them and use it during World War II. After continuous four years of war, American soldiers and civilians were tired of fighting, yet the Japanese military refused to give up on the war. American forces occupied Okinawa and Iwo Jima. They were firebombing the Japanese cities but the Japanese had an army of 2 million who were guarding against invasion. It was a very tough decision for Truman to decide whether or not to use the atomic bomb after the success of the…

When World War II struck the nation, the United States became known as a super power but not right from the start. America started out being neutral and helping out with the war from only they were selective in who they helped, so America was not being very neutral. America denied aid to Japan and Germany, the United States had even put out an order to shoot German U-Boats on sight. World War II broke out in 1939 and ended by 1945 the United States entered by declaring war on Japan in 1941 after…

way to end it. Two major options were provided, one that would cost a potential half-million American lives, and the other would unleash the destructive power of the A-bomb, killing thousands of Japanese civilians. America had already taken over Iwo Jima and Okinawa and was bombing Japanese cities, but Japan would not accept a surrender,…

The total for wounded or missing in action came to 7,844 with the complete casualty total being over 12,000 (D-Day Museum, 2015). Just the invasion of Saipan inflicted 16,525 dead or wounded Americans. The U.S. Marines invaded the small island of Iwo Jima that is on 7.5 miles square and this battle cost 6,821 lives (D-Day Museum, 2015). As you can see the invasions of Pacific islands cost more in human lives than did the invasion of a few beaches. This is not to lessen the heroism shown on…

For Apollo’s moon mission,American Government had to make huge expenditures from it’s budget and this was the first time in American History.Duringit’s peak years, about 34,000 NASA workers and 375,000 outside temporary workers partook in the program. Abe Silverstein who is the Director of Space Flight Development, proposed the name "Apollo" the reason was actually “Apollo” is the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology with attractive connotations and actually in order to naming spaceflight…

Abraham Lincoln, Christopher Columbus, Iwo Jima, The Vietnam Memorial, and the drawn out list continues of the many remarkable people and events that over the years artists have created memorials of/for. People create statues, plaques, mausoleums, etc., all for someone who has done something so phenomenal for this nation, as well of astonishing and even devastating events that have forever left an imprint on America and the rest of the world. Designing and having the task of dedicating a…