Utah and World War II Visualizing Utah’s Involvement in WWII

Review Visualizing helps your brain remember information better. Visualizing helps your brain remember information better. You can do it before, during, or after reading. You can do it before, during, or after reading.

Your Assignment For the past 2 weeks, you have created your own visuals as we read. For the past 2 weeks, you have created your own visuals as we read. Today, you will use photographs to visualize Utah’s experience in World War II. Today, you will use photographs to visualize Utah’s experience in World War II.

USS Utah The USS Utah was the first ship sunk at Pearl Harbor.

Service Men and Women More than 71,000 Utah soldiers left for service in the armed forces.

Helping at Home People grew food and raised chickens to send eggs to troops fighting overseas.

Geneva Steel Plant Utah sent steel to shipbuilders building warships.

John Browning His machine guns were mounted on airplanes in WWII and credited for helping bring a turning point to the war.

Navajo Code Talkers The Navajo language was used to send messages in the Pacific. The code was never broken.

Topaz Internment Camp Japanese-Americans were sent to Topaz during WWII. The government was concerned about spies.

Berlin Candy Bomber Berlin was cut off from food and supplies by the Russians. Utah pilot, Gail S. Halvorsen, dropped over 250,000 parachutes of treats and candy to the kids living in Berlin.

Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr. was part of an Air Force bombing team trained in Utah. His plane dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

Remember, visualizing can help you remember what you are learning. You can use visuals that have already been created or you can make your own.