World+War+ll+Journal

I thought it was harsh when the Japanese invaded China and threw the babies up in the air and killed them. It was really weird because all the countries wanted all this power, but actually it really wasn’t the countries that wanted power it was the dictators. There were so many people that were dead and just lying on the ground. I mean thousands of them were there, because they were bombed and most of them ended up dying. I think Hitler was a big part of this because one of the guys were arguing with Hitler on how wrong this was to have all these people killed. This was a big disaster.
 * Day 1: Pearl Harbor**

It was really interesting but upsetting to watch how quickly Japan conquered the Pacific islands. There was one island that wasn’t conquered by the Japanese, but if out little island tried to go on a ship and escape then they would die because the Japanese surrounded us. It was amazing how they survived with such little food and supplies, because they couldn’t have the U.S. send supplies because the Japanese surrounded us. I was really surprised. The soldiers had to march after they surrendered, and the march was called the Batan Death March. Sometimes they would burry up to 300 people per day. That is horrible. They also stated that trucks would drive over people’s body. This was a very disturbing thing to hear and watch. Whatever soldiers were left was taken to another camp, and they didn’t have barely any food.
 * Day 2: Attacks from Japan**

The soldiers that were here had to eat rice and fish heads, which I personally don’t think is very good or healthy at all. This was the only thing that they got to eat. Most of them were close to starving to death, and they lost about 25 pounds each. They were in horrible conditions. They were living with dead people all around them and the dead people stayed there, and the marines were being attacked everyday. Hundreds of people were dying.
 * Day 3: Guadalcanal**

Most of the soldiers feared death and many of them had died. We were trying to keep the shipping lines open, so we could bring supplies and soldiers from the United States to the Guadalcanal. The soldiers that were fighting were really close to starving to death. The soldiers would fight for a certain amount of time, and then they would be sent somewhere to rest, and when their time was up for resting, they would be sent somewhere else to go fight again. This fight was fought between August 7th, 1942, and February 9th, 1943 in the Pacific Theater of World War ll. They fought on the ground, in the air, and at sea.
 * Day 4: Killing is a Craft**

Allis had to fight their way around the edges, but they ended up getting stopped cold. Any man that made it across the Roptio were either trapped or killed. Over 30,000 alli troops landed in Rapito. People that were around there were cutting off supply lines. About 4,000 men were lost or had died. The Germans held on and the killing still went on. There were guys that stayed in swamps for weeks. A lot of soldiers were living underground at the time. About 44,000 were wounded, or missing. By the end of April, the allis were going to continue their journey towards Rome.
 * Day 5: Anzio**

June 16, 1944 was D-day, and it was said to be the greatest invasion. They had over 1000 aircrafts. What happened next was horrible. Paratroopers fell helplessly into the sea and other fell into valleys and drowned. Gliders were something new at warfare. Germans put poles in fields, so when the people fell from parachuting that they would land on the poles, and they would be torn apart. The soldiers had to bring their own tube of morphine because there weren’t any doctors around to take care of them when they got hurt or were sick. Addison dropped bombs and went back to England. Over 1000 ships were carrying over 100000 men. There were over 10000 men that went to Utah beach, and out of all those men only 197 were lost. There were five major beaches. They were the Gold Beach, the Sword Beach, Juno Beach, Omaha Beach, and the Utah Beach. When guys were drowning, ships were forbidden to stop and pick them up.
 * Day 6: D-day**