War in the Pacific: The ultimate community pool

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War in the Pacific The ultimate community pool

• Pearl Harbor, Philippines, General Douglas
  McArthur, Retreat to Australia, Bataan Death March

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Pearl Harbor

• Pear Harbor was a surprise attack on America on
  Dec. 7th, 1941.
• It brought us into the current war
• It also broke the backbone of the U.S. Navy by
  crippling a large portion of ships.

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Continued

• The Japanese had planned this attack for a
  relatively long amount of time.
• Although necessary measures were not taken, some
  things were done to make Pearl Harbor more
  defendable.
• The planes were bunched together so their
  firepower wouldnt be spread out.
• In the end, this backfired against the Americans
  when the Japanese attacked all the planes on the
  ground in less rounds than would have been
  necessary.

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Battle of the Philippines

• Commenced exactly nine hours after the bombing of
  Pearl Harbor.
• The commander in chief of the U.S. Philippine
  islands was General Author McDouglas.
• Even with 9 hours of warning in advance, he
  failed to prepare his troops for the inevitable
  event of Japan attacking the Philippines.

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Continued

• The Japanese were worried about their opposition
  on the Philippines
• They thought that McArthur would have air force
  on full war alert by the nine hours after pearl
  harbor.
• However Gen. McArthur had not prepared his
  forces, allowing the Japanese to destroy all of
  Americas east air force while it was still on the
  ground.

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Continued

• This battle caused America to lose complete air
  power in the far east.

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78,000 prisoners taken

• After the humiliating resistance of American
  troops at Bataan and Corridor, Japanese general,
  Masaharu Homma took his revenge on American
  prisoners by sending them on the infamous Bataan
  death march. He ordered the captive men to march
  from Bataan to their imprisonment at camp
  ODonnell, a distance of around 100 miles.

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General Macarthur's Run for Cover

• McArthur was a bad General.
• He didnt have the personality to be a general.
• When the order came for him to take defensive
  action after Pearl Harbor, he was indecisive and
  that caused the death of thousands of Americans.
• He then retreated to Australia, where he ordered
  his men not to give up the fight on the
  Philippines.

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Continued

• After the Philippines were lost, General McArthur
  took remaining forces with him to Australia and
  defended the Australian front from Japanese
  attack.
• General McArthurs retreat
• can be described in two
• words

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Japanese Strategy

• The attack on Pearl harbor was a planned attack
  by Japan on the American Naval fleet.
• The Japanese had thought this attack through for
  many weeks, probably months.
• They equipped all of their planes for low
  altitude use, and adapted their air-to-sea
  torpedoes for use in the shallow waters of pearl
  harbor by putting wooden fins on the rears of them

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Continued

• The Japanese had also prepared their pilots for
  this mission. They informed them that if their
  planes were to be hit or run out of fuel and
  ammunition,
• then they were to
• Kamikaze (kah-mih-kah-zee)
• their planes into an enemy
• ship, building, or airfield.

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More Continued

• The Japanese had also thought of the route they
  were to take to and from the attack.
• One the way back to Japan, they attacked and
  dominated small islands in the pacific like the
  Philippines.

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