BY: CLAYTON WEBER

World War II Scrapbook

I'm a Soldier, from The Pacific, for the United States.

Timeline

• This is the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a US Naval base. Japan launched 353 Japanese fighters to attack the US ships , damaging all of them and sinking four of them. 2,402 Americans were killed on December 7th, 1941.

• Was the first place a Nuclear Bomb was dropped on August 6th, 1945. It was estimated that the bomb destroyed nearly 4.7 square miles of the city.

Photos From WWII

Newspaper Clippings

• This a News Paper article explaining what the US did when they bombed Hiroshima. The news paper was happy because they wanted revenge on Japan because of what they did on Pearl harbor.

• This Article is comparing the one nuclear bomb that they dropped and saying that the bomb is equal to 20,000 tons of TNT going off.

Documents

• This is a Document that is ordering the strike on Hiroshima.

• This is a document that Harry Truman wrote, ordering one of the atomic bomb attacks on Japan.

Artifact

• This is a clock from Hiroshima that was recovered after the Atomic bomb was dropped on the city. You can picture the devastation that occurred by the looks of the clock.

Artifact

This is Tricycle from a kid in Hiroshima. As you can tell the affect that the atomic bomb had objects was massive.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/8/6/95526/49063/travel/Today+The+World+Remembers+The+Bombing+Of+Hiroshima

http://travelista1.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/a-moment-of-silence-in-hiroshima-day-1/

https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion/halifax-explosion-infosheet