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On December 7, 1941 it was early in the morning around the time of 7:55 when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan. See Japanese War Planes and bombed all the ships that were in the harbor, hey destroyed almost all of our ships and planes. They also killed 2,403 innocent Americans. Then on December 8th, the next morning President Roosevelt declared war on Japan.Then three days after that Italy declared war on the United States. Everyone was worried about family and friends who were being called of to war. Japanese Americans were also discriminated and taken to concentrated camps because we the U.S. didn't trust any Japanese. We also learned more about Adolf Hitler and a man named Benito Mussolini. Hitler started war in Britain, the Soviet Union, he also invaded Poland. Hitler did all this because he wanted to get revenge for what happened in Germany during World War 1. Benito Mussolini was the leader Italy and Germany he wanted to rule a great Roman empire. Today we learned about the Bataan Death March. See we were at war in the Philippines with Japan. Japan was killing us one at a time. We ended up surrendering to Japan thinking we would have a better chance. Our captain asked the Japanese captain to treat us well he said o.k. to our captain but he didn't keep his word. He didn't keep his word because their was a old Japanese saying that if you surrender in stead of die on the battle field you didn't deserve to live. So the Japanese made us walk about 6 days, 90 miles without out food nor water. The march began at a Japan's military base, Camp O'Donnell, later we were moved to Camp Cabanatuan. People who stopped to rest from the long walk were beaten, killed, and beheaded. Some people if they had rings on their fingers their fingers were chopped of just to get the ring. Thousands of us died on the trail and the Japanese just left our bodies in the middle of the road to rot. Our march lead to military camp. There we were fed only rice water and weevils and worms. One of our soldiers said it was better to try and sallow it when it was dark because then you didn't have to look at it. At least 20 people died each day at the camp due to lack of food or diseases such as Polo and Malaria.
 * Entry 1-** Pearl Harbor
 * Entry 2-**

In the Autumn of 1942 19,000 men went on a convoy to Midway island. On August 7th 1942 they final reached the island. When our military first got there it was a boring few weeks then the Japanese attacked, they sunk all the ships that brought us to the island and they also killed 1800 American soldiers. Then after 13 days of brutal fighting and killing American planes final made it to the island. In late September more Marines came to help the other troops hold their place in victory. On February of 1943 we won the fight between the Japan and ended their expansion. During the war 47,000 U.S. soldiers were wounded, 900 were ill, and 800,000 died.
 * Entry 3-** The fight of Midway

The North African Campaign was also know as killing was a craft. It was fought for two reasons. The first was the Suez Canal, which was crucial to controlling the Middle East. The second was Middle Eastern oil resources. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on the U.S. on June 10, 1940. The early part of the North African Campaign was plagued by a lack of supplies on both sides. This battle was so intense that in only one and a half weeks, 6,000 soldiers had died.
 * Entry 4-** North African Campaign

Tarawa is an island about 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii. From 1941 to 1943 during World War 2 it was held by the Japanese but it fell to the U.S.Marines after a bloody 76-hour battle. On November 20, just after 5 a.m., the first shot was fired. On the 23 the war had ended, and the U.S. lost over 3,000 marines the battle of Tarawa.
 * Entry** **5-** The Battle of Tarawa

D-Day is known as Operation Overlord. It started on June 6, 1944, at 5 beaches. The beach in witch I am talking about today is Omaha beach. Soldiers were sent to war by plane. Once at the right coordinates they would would drop out of the planes with a parachute. This plane didn't work as well as hey thought it would though. See many of the soldiers would drift of into the water or of into one of the Germans camps. Some of the soldiers parachutes wouldn't even work. Half of the men that jumped out of the planes were never even found. Soldiers were also taken by ships to Omaha Beach. Omaha was the biggest of the 5 beaches. It had mines, deep sand, and was barbed wired by German soldiers. The German soldiers were waited for the ships to dock and as soon as the first ships doors opened the Germans would attack. Some of the men were killed even before they got off the ships. Those who did manage to reach shore didn’t know where to go. General Bradley thought that they should retreat instead of sending out more men to die. Instead he improvised. They started killing Germans before they got off of ships. Americans also attacked enemies from the side and rear.
 * Entry 6-** D-Day

During the battle of the bulge Hitler was going to try and push through us and drive the British army in the sea. This happened in Arden. Arden was our base, it was located on the three boundaries of France, Belgum, and Germany. The military men at the Arden felt that the war was very far away from them, so that is were the allies rested, recovered, and enjoyed them selfs. What they didn't know was that a few miles west of them Hitlers men were getting ready for the big fight. Then on Dec. 16 Hitler shot the first bullet, after that bullet we were shot at like crazy for at least 3 hours, some of us fled. After the 1st hour Hitler and a quater of a million men started coming towards out of the forest just shooting at anything moving because the smoke and fog was so think it was hard to see. As they kept coming American troops kept on moving back. Around 10,000 American troops surrender to the Germans.On December 22 German commanders demanded us to surrender, but the only thing the U.S. commanders said to them was"NUTS." An the fighting went on. The morning after that a little more than 100 American war planes dropped food and medical care down to our troops. they also bombed the Germans.More than 15,000 Americans soldiers had died in this fight and they did not only die from being shot or starvation. They froze to death. Many troops lost fingers and toes to frost bite. This winter was so cold that it was to be called the coldest winter yet. By January 30 the allies managed to regain all the ground they lost due to the cold. IN the end we did win but we lost 19,000 men and 60,000 men were wounded, captured, or never found.
 * Entry 7-** The battle of the Bulge

On February 2, 1941 the U.S. military decided to firebomb the German city Dresden causing an over grown fire that will stop the Germans from getting through. It was on February 13, 1945, when a series of Allied firebombing raids were dropped at Dresden. The bombs reduced Dresden to just rubble and flames, and killed as many as 135,000 people. It was one of the most destructive bombing of the war--including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 * Entry 8-** The firebombing of Dresden

In the months of September through August 1945 the U.S. Military was building nuclear bombs to drop on to major cities of Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombs were called Fat Man and Little Boy, Fat Man was the bigger one. The Fat man was dropped on August 6, 1945 at 8:00am. Around 40,000 men, women and children were killed right when the bomb hit. At least 1,000 to 2,000 more would die that day or the next from radiation or burns. An also in the next 5 years about 100,000more people would die from radiation poisoning. Little Boy was dropped on August 7, 1945 at 2:00am. Another 40,000 men, women and children would die. The U.S. military didn't have any more bombs to drop on Japan but Japan didn't know that and there was no way they were going to find out. Since the U.S. had scared Japan to death they ended up surrendering on August 8 early in the morning. People back in the U.S. celebrated because the war was finally over. Not ever one was happy though in the U.S. because even though many soldiers got to come home many others didn't. Some families didn't believe the people who post who had died in war and others just lived with it.
 * Entry 9-**Entry 10- The Manhattan project
 * Fat Man Little Boy

THE WAR IS OVER **