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Marines, with full battle kits, charge ashore on Guadalcanal Marines approach the Japanese occupied Guadalcanal in the Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands before advancing inland against theĪug. Barelyĭiscernible above the waves, one member of the crew of the plane clings One third of the end of the fuselage was shot off. The first day of fighting for possession of the southern Solomon Japanese twin-motored bomber shot down by U.S. The men in a small boat, foreground, are looking for victims. (APĪugust 3, 1942: After hammering Port Moresby for two days, Japanese bombersįinally sank this Australian transport which sends up a cloud of smoke. Torpedo planes attacking the carrier during the battle of Midway. Umbrella of anti-aircraft fire to beat off a squadron of Japanese
aircraft carrier Yorktown, left, and the otherįighting ships of a United States task force in the Pacific, throw up an Navy aircraft carrier, explodes afterīeing bombed by Japanese planes in the Battle of the Coral Sea in the For a year the world knew no more than that. President Roosevelt had answered a reporter's question by saying that the raid came from a base called "Shangri-La" in playful allusion to the mythical country of James Hilton's novel, Lost Horizon. (APĪpril 18, 1942: A B-25 Mitchell bomber takes off from the USS Hornet's flightĭeck for the initial air raid on Tokyo, Japan. The shattered wreckage of American planes bombed by the Japanese in theirĪttack on Pearl Harbor is strewn on Hickam Field, Dec. Navy as a Japanese torpedo plane, was salvagedįrom the bottom of Pearl Harbor following the surprise attack Dec. Downes, stationed at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on Navy)ĭecember 7, 1941: Heavy damage is seen on the destroyers, U.S.S. Riddled this car and killed three civilians in the attack. "a date which will live in infamy" and Congress declared war on Japanĭecember 7, 1941: Eight miles from Pearl Harbor, shrapnel from a Japanese bomb Pacific Fleet and forced America out of a policy TheĪttack, which left 2,343 Americans dead and 916 missing, broke theīackbone of the U.S. The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew. Into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)ħ, 1941: The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background,ĭuring the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Minutes later the full impact of the assault was felt and Pearl Harborĭecember 7, 1941: Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air (AP Photo)ħ, 1941: This picture, taken by a Japanese photographer, shows howĪmerican ships are clustered together before the surprise JapaneseĪerial attack on Pear Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday morning, Dec. Water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.ĭecember 7, 1941: A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the Nagasaki in August of 1945, Victory over Japan Day on August 15, 1945Īnd the official surrender of Japan aboard the battleship U.S.S. The Pacific War pitted the Allies against theĮmpire of Japan and culminated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Generally considered to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, the islands The following collection of 110 photos, published on a Denver Post Photo Blog, focuses on The Pacific War, a term referring to The US Marines in the Pacific Theater of the war. Pacific, the follow-up to Band of Brothers, focused on Has again come into the living rooms of American families. Produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, World War II With the premiere of the ten part HBO miniseries, The Pacific,
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