Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions: 1) Describe the allies position by the summer of ) Describe the Japanese military strength with respect to US and Britain and their aircraft and their production. 3) Describe Japan’s objectives in the Pacific campaign. 4) What was the primary weapon used during the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway? 5) With the loss of aircraft carriers, what did Japan utilize as a means to attack allied ships? Warm-Up – 2/14 – 10 minutes

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Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions: 1) Describe the allies position by the summer of ) Describe the Japanese military strength with respect to US and Britain and their aircraft and their production. 3) Describe Japan’s objectives in the Pacific campaign. 4) What was the primary weapon used during the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway? 5) With the loss of aircraft carriers, what did Japan utilize as a means to attack allied ships? Warm-Up – 2/14 – 10 minutes

 After the attack on Pearl Harbor – Japan launched simultaneous attacks on Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma and Dutch East Indies.  Allies had been pushed all the way back to Australia by the summer of 1942  Japan had achieved its original war plan The Pacific Campaign The Pacific Campaign Japanese / Allied Strength

Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions: 1) Describe the allies position by the summer of ) Describe the Japanese military strength with respect to US and Britain and their aircraft and their production. 3) Describe Japan’s objectives in the Pacific campaign. 4) What was the primary weapon used during the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway? 5) With the loss of aircraft carriers, what did Japan utilize as a means to attack allied ships? Warm-Up – 2/14 – 10 minutes

 Militarily, Japan was stronger than Britain or the US.  Britain was totally occupied with Germany, so they couldn’t help in the Pacific. The Pacific Campaign The Pacific Campaign Japanese / Allied Strength

 Japan had 2,400,000 well- trained men and 3,000,000 reserves.  They had 7,500 aircraft and were making 400 more every month. The Pacific Campaign The Pacific Campaign Japanese / Allied Strength

Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions: 1) Describe the allies position by the summer of ) Describe the Japanese military strength with respect to US and Britain and their aircraft and their production. 3) Describe Japan’s objectives in the Pacific campaign. 4) What was the primary weapon used during the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway? 5) With the loss of aircraft carriers what did Japan utilize as a means to attack allied ships? Warm-Up – 2/14 – 10 minutes

 Japanese objectives were all the same in each:  Air superiority  Follow with invasion  Japanese controlled the air that made the Allies impossible to resupply  The Allies would then surrender The Pacific Campaign The Pacific Campaign Japanese / Allied Strength

Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions: 1) Describe the allies position by the summer of ) Describe the Japanese military strength with respect to US and Britain and their aircraft and their production. 3) Describe Japan’s objectives in the Pacific campaign. 4) What was the primary weapon used during the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway? 5) With the loss of aircraft carriers what did Japan utilize as a means to attack allied ships? Warm-Up – 2/14 – 10 minutes

 Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway were naval battles but were fought entirely by aircraft.  The aircraft carrier was the primary weapon The Pacific Campaign The Pacific Campaign Air Power Stops the Japanese Advance

 US began to turn the tide against the Japanese using aircraft carriers as the primary weapon  The battle to retake the Pacific was just beginning and the upcoming island- hopping campaign would get worse before better.  This was a determined enemy. The Pacific Campaign The Pacific Campaign Air Power Stops the Japanese Advance

Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions: 1) Describe the allies position by the summer of ) Describe the Japanese military strength with respect to US and Britain and their aircraft and their production. 3) Describe Japan’s objectives in the Pacific campaign. 4) What was the primary weapon used during the Battles of Coral Sea and Midway? 5) With the loss of aircraft carriers what did Japan utilize as a means to attack allied ships? Warm-Up – 2/14 – 10 minutes

 Late in 1944 with the loss of carriers the Japanese started using kamikazes  Over 5,000 airmen gave their lives aiming to sink US aircraft carriers  Produced heavy damage and many US causalities The Pacific Campaign The Pacific Campaign Air Power Stops the Japanese Advance

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Across 3. This country's defeat was the priority 4. Aircraft used to escort B-17s 7. Served as the Prime Minister of Britain 8. Known as the "Father of the RAF" 9. The bombing of these made fuel scarce Down 1. Group of women that ferried aircraft 2. German Field Marshall known as the Desert Fox 4. American who said Navy should have at least 20 aircraft carriers 5. This was the Top Secret bombsight used in precision bombing 6. Air power priority strategy that isolates the battle area

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 February — An official American nonstop duration and distance record is made when Lt. Townsend Dodd and Sgt. Herbert Marcus fly the United States Signal Corps Burgess H tractor biplane. (S.C. No. 26) mi. in 4 hours 43 minutes. Although it established a record for two people in one airplane, it also exceeded the previous single-seat record. THIS DAY IN AVIATION

 February — Ruth Nichols flies her Lockheed “Vega” from Floyd Bennett Field, New York to an altitude of 19,928 feet, a new world record for diesel-engined airplanes. THIS DAY IN AVIATION

 February — S. J. Wittman makes speed record for 100 kms for light airplanes in the fourth category of mph at New Orleans, Louisiana. THIS DAY IN AVIATION

 February — Pan American Air Races held at Shushan Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana. THIS DAY IN AVIATION

 February — Japan Air Lines begins commercial operations with the highest-capacity airliner ever put into scheduled service, conducting the inaugural flight of eight Boeing 747SR. The aircraft has seating for 550 passengers, 45 in the upper deck. THIS DAY IN AVIATION

 February — 4th TFW McDonnell Douglas F-15E “Strike Eagle” shoots down Iraqi helicopter using a GBU-10, 2000-lb laser guided bomb during “Desert Storm.” THIS DAY IN AVIATION

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Website of the Day WWII in the Pacific School Fusion Page

Safety Rules – Safety Monitor Brief Must Use Safety Glasses Use of Cutting tools is Dangerous – AT ALL TIMES – knives only out when cutting Must Use Cutting Mats All Areas will remain clean and organized Plane Captains will insure All Areas will be cleaned and all items put back in proper locations 10 minutes prior to class ending Class SAFETY MONITOR will insure areas are clean and safe at all times

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