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World War II Used with Permission from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

The Pacific Theater

Pearl Harbor

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

A date which will live in infamy! Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Memorial 2,887 Americans Dead!

Pacific Theater of Operations

“Tokyo Rose”

Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Betty Grable: Allied Pinup Girl She Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For

Singapore Surrenders [February, 1942]

U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines [March, 1942]

Bataan Death March: April, 1942 76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

Bataan: British Soldiers A Liberated British POW

General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942 The Burma Campaign General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942 The “Burma Road”

Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

“Island-Hopping”: US Troops on Kwajalien Island

Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

Battle of the Coral Sea: May 7-8, 1942

Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942

Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942

Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific Kamikaze Pilots Suicide Bombers

Gen. MacArthur “Returns” to the Philippines! [1944]

US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

Potsdam Conference: July, 1945 FDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference. Stalin only original. The United States has the A-bomb. Allies agree Germany is to be divided into occupation zones Poland moved around to suit the Soviets. P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin

The Manhattan Project: Los Alamos, NM I am become death, the shatterer of worlds! Major General Lesley R. Groves Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

Tinian Island, 1945 Little Boy Fat Man Enola Gay Crew

Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 70,000 killed immediately. 48,000 buildings. destroyed. 100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

The Beginning of the Atomic Age

Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 40,000 killed immediately. 60,000 injured. 100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

Hiroshima Memorials

V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

Japanese POWs, Guam

V-J Day in Times Square, NYC