1. Warm-Up – 11/2 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

2. Questions / Comments

3. Warm-Up – 11/2 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

4. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
The first bombing of Japan took place in April 1942.
It was highly successful.
Japan no longer felt safe from Allied attack.

5. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
16 B-25 bombers launched off the deck of the USS Hornet
Flew 800 miles to bomb:
Tokyo
Yokohama
Yokosuka
Kobe
Osaka
Nagoya
Not a single aircraft lost

6. Warm-Up – 11/2 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

7. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
The US had gone back to high-altitude, unescorted, daylight precision bombing and it didn’t work.
The air bases in the Mariana islands were over 1500 miles from Japan – well out of the range of fighters – capture of Iwo Jima was key – (750 miles away)

8. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
Another problem with high-altitude bombing in the Pacific
Winds at 30,000 ft were over 100 mph and cause bombs to go off course
The US then began low- level bombing at night.
This was much more successful.

9. Warm-Up – 11/2 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

10. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
Iwo Jima – served two important roles:
Base for fighter escorts
Emergency landing field for B-29’s
By the end of the war over 2,200 B-29s made emergency landings in Iwo Jima

11. Warm-Up – 11/2 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

12. The Pacific Campaign Atom Bomb Forces Surrender
In July 1945, there were still over million Japanese soldiers fighting.
President Truman feared that hand-to-hand combat would cost hundreds of thousands of lives for both the Japanese and the Americans.

13. Warm-Up – 11/2 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

14. The Pacific Campaign Atom Bomb Forces Surrender
On September 2, 1945, Japan officially surrendered.

15. Questions / Comments

16. THIS DAY IN AVIATION
November 2
1931 — The USS Akron, a purpose-built aircraft-carrying airship, is commissioned.

17. THIS DAY IN AVIATION
November 2
1943 — The Fifteenth Air Force (15th AF) was established on 1 November 1943 in Tunis, Tunisia as part of the United States Army Air Forces in the World War II Mediterranean Theater of Operations as a strategic air force and commenced combat operations the day after it was formed.
The first commander was General Jimmy Doolittle.

18. THIS DAY IN AVIATION
November 2
1949 — United Aircraft Corporation's Sikorsky Division announces a single-engine 10- passenger helicopter to be test-flown.

19. Questions / Comments

20. October / November 2017 15 16 Chapter 4 Battle of Britain 17
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY 15 16
Chapter 4
Battle of Britain 17
Review Quiz 18
Russian Front 19
US Enters War
Pearl Harbor 20
FLIGHTLINE 21 22 23
North Africa 24
Theories of Air Power 25
D-Day 26 27
Mighty 8th Museum 28 29 30
Pacific Campaign 31
Island Hopping 1
Doolittle Raid
Atomic Bomb 2
Lessons Learned 3
Chap 4 Test 4

21. Questions / Comments

22. Chapter 4 – Air Power Goes to War

23. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

24. Video of the Day
Top 15 WWII War Planes

25. Lessons Learned
The flexibility of air power and the importance of it were prominently displayed during WWII.
From the combined actions of the Blitzkrieg to the island hopping campaign in the Pacific and the eventual atomic bombing of Japan

26. Lessons Learned
The aircraft became the dominant weapon and the aircraft carrier became the primary naval weapon.

27. Lessons Learned U.S. learned how best to utilize air power
North African campaign taught Allies to centralize assets
Air superiority was the number priority of the air campaign

28. Lessons Learned American initial bombing doctrine did NOT work
New technology (Norden bombsight)
New tactics – escorted bombers
Helped gain air superiority in Europe

29. Lessons Learned
Pacific campaign taught U.S. that aircraft carriers and new tactics would turn the tide.
New bombs and tactics – multi- layered attack
High altitude to low altitude night bombing

30. Lessons Learned
WWII was won by the technological and wartime production capabilities of the U.S.
U.S. more than any other nation combined manpower and materiel into greatest manufacturing effort in history

31. Lessons Learned WWII taught the futility of war in modern society.
Twenty million people were killed and at least sixty million were injured or permanently disabled.

32. Questions / Comments

33. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

34. Lessons Learned
The flexibility of air power and the importance of it were prominently displayed during WWII.
From the combined actions of the Blitzkrieg to the island hopping campaign in the Pacific and the eventual atomic bombing of Japan

35. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

36. Lessons Learned American initial bombing doctrine did NOT work
New technology (Norden bombsight)
New tactics – escorted bombers
Helped gain air superiority in Europe

37. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

38. Lessons Learned
Pacific campaign taught U.S. that aircraft carriers and new tactics would turn the tide.
New bombs and tactics – multi- layered attack
High altitude to low altitude night bombing

39. Questions / Comments

40. Lesson Closure - 3 – 2 - 1
2. List 2 things you have questions about today’s lesson.
3. List 3 things you learned today.
1. Create (1) quiz question with answer about today’s lesson.

41. Questions / Comments

42. SAFETY FIRST.
SAFETY ALWAYS.

43. 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

44. SAFETY FIRST.
SAFETY ALWAYS.

45. Questions / Comments