WW2

=World War 2 Diary=
 * DAY1**- I think world war 2 was a very important war because it was against a very trained enemy with a desire to win. It also involved so many countries than other wars.The casulaties were also high and civilian deaths were high and total destruction. It was also bad for America because we recovered from the Great depression.


 * DAY2**- The Bataan March was a brutal and evil march when 76,000 American and philliphino soldiers marched to the horrible unfinished philipino camp. The deaths were high during the march estimated to be 10,000 dead marching. Then 60,000 American and Philipino were stationed at the camp with nasty food. America had little naval and air forces since Pearl Harbor so there was no rescue.


 * DAY3-** The battle of Guadacanal was a very important battle strategiclly. They needed it to have supply lines from allied islands to Australia. They also wanted to stop the japanese from building the air strip because that would give them control of the supply lines.The U.S. Marines had to be there and had to take over the airfield the Jap's were building when they were nearly complete the Marines came and took it over. After taking it the jap's took out their supplies and ships. The marines were beggining to wonder if the same thing that happened in Bataan would happen to them. After a couple hurs of holding the airfield the Jap's led a large attack on u.s marine screaming Banzai the chant the Jap's said when they were charging. The battle was a loss for the Jap's because more of them died about 900 and 34 marines killed. The Marines hardly took prisoners because of the Jap's teachings never to surrender and to die fighting is the best way to die.


 * Day4-** The d-day invasion of Normandy France was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany even though suffering many casualties the Allies pushed through the beaches. While airborne divisions landed behind the beaches to cut of all possible supply routes. When the Allies pushed in France the Germans had to concentrate their forces in West Europe instead of the soviet union. So it weakened the German forces because the Germans lost the Battle of Moscow and Stalingrad even though the Russian lost way more casulaties than the Wermacht.


 * Day5-**The battle of the bulge started in the Ardenes forest when the german army had to do something before the Allies came knocking on Berlin and the German situation in Russia wasn't going so well. The german army launched its invasion with a quarter of a million troops their goal was to split the allied forces and split them from their supplies. Hitler hoped the American people would want to consider a truce to end all the killing and get their boys back home. The Germans succeded in pushing back the Americans and surrounded the city of Bastogne. The Americans held out long enough to get supplies from the Air force.