World+War+II

__**Day #1** __
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. All battle ships and planes were destroyed. Adolf Hitler took over Germany and built up his army. Then he attacked Poland first, then Britain and France attacked Italy. With the Soviet Union in half of Poland, a secret pact was made with Germany so they will not attack. Then that agreement was destroyed after the Germans attacked the Soviets. The Italian dictator wanted to rebuild the Roman empire. Hitler wanted revenge on everyone that doubted him.

__Day #2 __
When the US was fighting the Japanese in the Philipines, they got all the way to the peninsula of one island and the commanding General got on a PT boat with about 17 other soldiers and got to Australia. The battle was gruesome and the soldiers ended up surrendering. The Japanese ended up taking them on a march that took 6 days and 7 nights, it was called The Bataan Death March. Many died on that march, and when people in cars drove by, saw a dead body, they rode straight over it. The Japanese would also take their bayonets and slit the throats of the soldiers. Then when the march ended, the madness didn't end. They got to stay in an unfinished Japanese base with barbed wire around it and machine gun towers. The soldiers didn't have any water at all and many more died at the resting area.

__Day #3 __
When the soldiers had to fight for Guadalcanal, it was critical if they didn't take it over. With an airfield on that island, our country was doomed. The ships were island hopping and the men on Guadalcanal took the area over. The bad thing about the take over, is that the ships were sunk. The soldiers then finished the air field and protected it for months. About 17,000 soldiers were dead, over 42,000 were injured and about 1,000 were ill with some type of sickness. When the first American planes arrived at the airfield, the soldiers weren't alone anymore, but then that night Japanese soldiers attacked the planes and destroyed them.

__Day #4 __
When the Americans were on the beach of Anzio, the Germans had them pinned there for 8 weeks. The largest gun that the Germans had got the nickname "Anzio Annie" for the large blasts that were shot from it. Also the plane that dropped the many butterfly bombs on the soldiers got the nickname "Popcorn". 7,000 soldiers lives were taken at the beach, 6,000 wounded or missing. The battle for the Monastary ended up to be a reward because the Allies had taken the place over, after the Germans fled from it. Also, when it was raining, soldiers took a new Japanese air strip at Cape Glasta. The way it was taken was by an all on frontal assault, and any island could be taken that way.



__Day #5 __
  More than 24,000 soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines one night in June of 44. Some of them got to a spot where there was no light showing their position, so they couldn't see where they were landing. Then in the morning the captain of that particular part could find only less than half of the people. On the other hand the other soldiers were able to get to their positions and finish their first part done. The soldiers by Omaha beach didn't have any heavy weapons, and were trying to not get killed by the large guns that the Germans had.

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The number of German soldiers that died at the Battle of the Bulge totalled up to four million. Hitler was planning on making a surprise attack with not enough fuel and 250,000 fresh troops. While the Germans were preparing, American soldiers were in a few small towns taking leisure time. They used this time for sleep and recreation because the war felt so far away. There were a total of 80,000 soldiers in 80 miles of country area. They called this type of front, the "Ghost Front". In the forest, a few miles away, German troops got ready for the surprise attack on the Americans in Bastonge. Sometime during the night, the German soldiers fired amo at the city. When people in America heard about this they cheered for the soldiers fighting, but soldiers were scared.

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In the Atlantic, 900 American and British bombers dropped many tons of fire bombs on Dresdin, hoping it would create a firestorm. The roads, railways, and cities were bombed. With that done, the bombs had killed 593,000 civilians most of them being women and more than 100,000 children were killed. Then over in the Pacific, Americans bombed a small island called Iwo Jima because the Japanese had an air strip on it. It was a small volcanic island and the water wasn't fresh enough to drink and American bombers dropped 6,000 tons of bombs on that island. The first three waves of Marine soldiers were able to make it to the island with no fire raining on them. The Japanese were in bunkers or holes, hiding. Then when the fourth wave was going to the island the Japanese opened fire. When the tanks got onto the beach they escorted soldiers off the beach and up onto land protected so the soldiers could get cover. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">