Iwo Jima

where they needed to do something; Italy and Germany were already defeated, and the last one standing in their way was Japan. Understandably, the USA was the closed country, since it was a battle of the pacific, and the United States had control of Iwo Jima. Thus in conclusion, the dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was beyond justifiable due to those four…

Allied forces some time to rally an army to oppose them. The attack that brought America out of their neutral state was the attack from Japan on Pearl Harbour. The major battles of the Pacific were Midway, Coral Sea, Guadalcanal, Singapore, Kokoda, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Both sides lost a large number of soldiers and everybody wanted the war to end but nobody would back down. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan by America was unnecessary and America is not justified for its actions. Some…

During the two days that followed the initial landings I had six Navajo radio nets working around the clock. . . . They sent and received over 800 messages without an error. Were it not for the Navajo Code Talkers, the Marines never would have taken Iwo Jima.” (History) The Navajo were among the first to hear what all the marines have been waiting to hear, and that was that the Japanese had surrendered and they had won the war. All their hard work and training amounted to the surrender of an…

The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. Even though it cost the lives of so many civilians, it ended a bloody war and saved countless Japanese and Allied lives that would have been lost if the war continued. The date is August 6th, 1945. It was a normal day for most people in Japan and in the U.S, but little did they know that the world was about to be changed forever. The next few days would finally end a 4 year-long war that costed 10’s of thousands of lives,…

In the year 1945, the Decision of dropping both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs on Japan took place. President Harry S. Truman took control and made a purely military decision to keep the United States safe. President Truman was afraid if nothing was done, then the war against Japan would be lost and many American deaths would be on his hands. Hiroshima was dropped and killed thousands of Japanese people and destroying buildings. Three days later, they dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki,…

World War II, the Japanese demonstrated the trait of ideology because many Japanese thought that it was dishonorable to surrender, and would rather die fighting for their country or commit suicide than give themselves up to the enemy. (Letters From Iwo Jima). In January 1942, Japanese forces invaded the Phillipines. American and Filipino forces took up a defensive position on the Bataan Peninsula, but three months later, the Japanese military seized control of the Bataan Peninsula. Japanese…

(Kimura, 2013). The operation was planned to start in November 1945. Bernstein (1998) discusses that Truman must have felt the need to use the A-bombs before Operation Olympic could start. Following heavy casualties on the U.S. side after the attack on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the American President must have felt a need to prevent further casualties. Articles suggest that the most cited number of casualties prevented by using the bombs is about one million American soldiers (Bernstein, 1998;…

When looked up in the dictionary, the word conventional means, not using, making, or involving nuclear weapons or energy, nonnuclear. Therefore, conventional bombing is any type of bombing used during World War II besides the nuclear bomb. In the Pacific Theater of the war, bombing was used constantly, but around V-E day, it was switched to nighttime incendiary bombing in an attempt to close out the war wholly and quickly. This lead to millions of civilians being killed which is why this option…

Operation Starlite: The Symbol for Marines Over the course of the Vietnam War, 9,087,000 soldiers fought for the U.S., 58,220 soldiers died in action, and 250,000 Vietnamese were killed in 20 years. Greg Frikken was drafted into the war after he had completed high school. During his basic training, he scored the highest in Tech Supply, which was his ticket into working with supplies in the military. In 1966, Greg was first ordered to go to Vietnam. After a 30 day trip, his platoon relieved the…

there are many definitions to what being an American means. Americans are stereotyped as “pigs” or “imbecile” by others in foreign countries, but actually Americans are innovative/creative and are entrepreneurs as related by the iconic image of Iwo Jima (which shows the movement from teamwork and pushing towards a common goal). They’re innovative because of companies like Microsoft and Ford, who paved the way for new technologies and they’re entrepreneurs, because of personages such as Donald…