This week we learned about the war in the Pacific and how it was fought. It was a naval war with battleships and aircraft carriers. The fighting was mostly between USA and Japan for territories in the Pacific. Japan wanted to cover their homeland so no one can get in. The US wanted to go to their homeland to fight for Pearl Harbor. Whenever the US pushed closer to Japan more soldiers would die. It got to the point where Japanese soldiers will never surrender and would kill themselves. Their fighters would do suicide missions by flying there planes into US ships. The US never saw anything like this and were a little terrified by this. This was known as the Kamikaze which translates to the divine wind. But the US still pushed on towards Japan. At the point when we finished in class Japan was unable to fight in the air and the ocean.
So they blew up planes and people using this strategy? I believe this is a waste of money and lives that could be used for many more important things than going to waste like the helping out the country and satisfying the citizens.
ReplyDeleteI think this really proves how the Japanese had essentially given up, and they still fought to the end. They did this to show how much they care, and how much they would put into stopping the US from winning, even if they knew that they, themselves, could not come out victorious.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Japanese also did the Kamikaze out of honor and respect for their country. They do not want to give up so they, instead, fight with their lives.
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