World War II
Combat:
Our Families
8in. Guns on a Battleship
Contents:
Personal Account
The Beginning of WWII
United States in the War
The
Beginning of WWII
Twenty years
after World War I , the same enemies meet again in World War II.
On one side there is the Allied Powers which is made up of Great Britain
and others members of the Commonwealth of Nations, the United States, the
Soviet Union, France, and China. On the other side the Axis Powers included
Germany, Italy, and Japan. The war would start a few years earlier
in Europe before the United States would declare their involvement in World
War II.
United
States in the War
The United
States' involvement began on a bright, early Sunday morning of December
7, 1941 when the Japanese air raided the American Pacific Fleet.
United States' powerful battleships and cruisers floated at anchor at Pearl
Harbor. Suddenly Japanese torpedo planes screeched over the fleet
damaging 13 ships and destroying another 188 U.S. planes. When
the smoke cleared 2,400 Americans were dead and nearly 1,200 injured.
This marked Japan's entrance in to the war on the side of Germany and Italy.
The next day on December 8, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced
that the United States will be entering the war.
Many of
our families lost men to the war either through the draft or through their
own patriotic fight. No matter the case World War II was something
that has touched the lives of many Americans. These brave men had
to leave their families to fight for their country and for us.
This site
recognizes the men who were called to duty to fight for our country.
The accounts on this site are true. We gathered our information through
our English 101
class at Northern Kentucky University. The people talked about
on this site are family members to fellow students in our class.
Please
use our material responsibly!
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morathk@nku.edu
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