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This paper is going to be be about the U.S. and Japan during World War II, and about how it started, what happened and what this resulted in,also how this war between these two countries affected the world. The attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor started a war with the U.S . Japan had launched an attack towards the U.S. on December 7, 1941. This is a tragic event in history for the United States of America. This attack that the Japanese carried out surprised the people of the U.S. This attack began right before eight a.m (12/7/1941) , a squadron of Japanese planes attacked a U.S. Naval based on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. During this time the skies were filled with Japanese planes and some of …show more content…

The marines succeeded but started to lose more men the closer inland they got. The Japanese fought in dugouts known as trenches.This made it very hard for the Americans to wipe out the Japanese. After the Americans conquered the land there were 1,083 Japanese prisoners and these prisoners did not surrender until 1951. The entire Japanese defences were all wipes out. The Americans won but did suffer some heavy losses, 5,900 died during the battle and 17,400 were found wounded and this is not including the Japanese this was all the Americans losses. This was one of the bloodiest wars during world war II between the Japanese and the U.S. This was also a major battle and was the last one. This battle occurred on April 1, 1945. This was the battle of Okinawa. What happened was the Allied forces invaded an island of Okinawa and was Japanese territory at the time. At dawn on April 1, more 180,000 U.S. Army and Marines were deployed and pushed towards the beach. The U.S. expected for the beach to be worse than D-day. But there were no Japanese soldiers was defending the beach. As the allied soldiers were traveling inland, they were attacked by a strong force of Japanese soldiers. After this attack Okinawa turned into the Bloodiest war of the Pacific. The allied forces fought for every inch of ground that they could get, this was very hard to do. Guns would be set on the top of hills or were facing at flat land taking out some of the troops. In the air it took a few hours to take over the airfield using tons of

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