US in WW2

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About 416,800 U.S. soldiers died in World War 2.

Not letting the soldier and sailor go in Japans mainland since it would be more war casualties for the US than the one they had already.

Some non-Japanese died in the nuclear bombing like Koreans and some Americans who were war captives. The number for the victims go to 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki.

No, because he knew about the attack but said nothing because he knew this would bring the U.S. into war.

December 7th, 1941. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan.

Helicopters are used by the army for troop movement on the battlefield. You can't land a C-130 in a jungle or on a rooftop, but a helicopter will go anywhere with a small clearing. Also, helicopters such as the Apache attack helicopter are highly effective against armoured units.

If you mean the 27th Infantry Regiment, their nickname is the "Wolfhounds". The shoulder patch is a black rectangle, short sides being the top and bottom, black with a large dog's head (a wolf hound) in profile, looking left. The dog's head, the border of the rectangle, and the regimental motto below the dog's head are in yellow. The motto is "nec aspera terrant" (Fear no Difficulties, often said to be No Earthly Fear). The Regiment picked up the nickname while serving in the "Polar Bear Brigade" in Siberia just after WWI, for its relentless pursuit of the Bolsheviks.

If you mean the 27th Infantry Division its a khaki-bordered circle with a red circle inside, and within the red circle are the letters "NY" worked into a monogram (for the divisions basis as the New York National Guard), and also within the red circle are stars representing the constellation Orion.

The original Flying Tigers were a group of Americans who volunteered and signed a contract with the Chinese Government to fly (and others worked as mechanics, etc) and fight the Japanese who were invading their country. This was before the US declared war, so these Americans were not in the US Army.

After the US entered the war, some of these American volunteers joined the American Army. They formed an official unit within the US Army that was known as the Flying Tigers and also painted the shark's mouth on their fighters. Also the 14th Air Force adopted the flying tiger as their unit insignia.

Yes, on August 9, 1945, three days after Hiroshima was bombed.

It was a different type of bomb from Hiroshima though. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made by splitting uranium atoms, and was nicknamed Little Boy. However, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki was plutonium. It was nicknamed Fat Man and was the same type as the first A-bomb tested at Alamogordo, NM.

The average NFL salary in 2006 was $1.4 million. The Falcons had the highest payroll at $110 million, the Bills the lowest at $60 million.

Because beaches allowed for the landing crafts to take soldiers as close as possible to land. The main Ports of Calais and Cherbourg were heavily fortified and defended and thus too difficult to assault. A lesson that was learned from the Dieppe Raid.

Securing the beaches allowed for fast and efficient unloading of men and equipment imperative to repel and German counter attack which could scuttle the invasion.

every star symbolizes 100 soldiers who died in ww2

President Roosevelt knew it would take at least a million marines to take the main island of Japan, we could have won without the bomb, but we would have taken thousands of unnecessary casualties.

Dresden lies on the banks of the Elbe River in East Germany. The city was founded in the 1200s and became the capital of the Kingdon of Saxony. Dresden was an important commercial, as well as art, center.

The city was almost completely destroyed by massive bombing raids that took place between February 13 and April 17, 1945. Over eight hundred Allied aircraft took part in the assaults. The bombings destroyed many architectural monuments. Experts estimate tht between 35,000 and 135,000 people were killed. (see edit below for the fallacy of this staement)

Dresden was so badly damaged that some officials suggested the entire city be leveled and a new one built. A compromise was eventually reached that allowed for the rebuilding *EDIT* By all available research done by myself and other researchers with no political axe to grind the absolute maximum number of people killed during the dresden bombing is 35,000. I have a standard answer to this question which is copied below. I am an accredited researcher with access to the Public Records Office in Kew, London. The biggest problem with dealing with the matter of the bombing of Germany is that it is judged against modern morals and standards of behaviour. Civilians have suffered during war from the beginning of time. When the barbarians sacked Rome they slaughtered men women and children. When the French stormed Spanish towns during the peninsular war the citizens inside were killed and the towns raped and pillaged. The powers during the 19th century and the early 20th laid down ever more stringent rules about conduct during war trying to prevent these excesses but until the Geneva Convention came along there were no hard and fast "rules of war". In 1945 the Geneva Convention did not prohibit the general bombing of a town to destroy its industrial capacity. We have to look at Dresden in the light of the morality of the time. Some people in Dresden and elsewhere claim that the Bombing of Dresden by the RAF AND the USAAF is a war crime. In my opinion it was not

I am not in any way denying the fact that what happened in Dresden was horrific and appalling. I do deny that the men who undertook the mission have any crime to answer for.

The bombing of Dresden has been used since 1945 as a tool to beat the RAF about its conduct of "terror bombing" during WW2. The bombing of an industrialized town from the air in an attempt to destroy its industry or cause such loss of morale amongst its inhabitants that they ceased to work was NOT a crime by the Rules of War in 1945. The bombing of Coventry, London and other British Cities in 1940 and 1941 was also NOT a War Crime. Within Europe we did not have the "industrial areas" afforded to towns in the New World. The factories were in and around the areas where the workforce lived. One side of the street would be the factory wall; the other side of the street would be the workers houses. Unfortunately this lead to what, nowadays, is called "collateral damage"

Dresden burned so heavily for several reasons.

It was a medieval city with many wooden buildings.

There had been a dry winter in the region which meant many buildings were tinderboxes.

The population were not used to air raids and did not therefore have the knowledge that you need to put incendiaries out quickly

The raid had little opposition because its Anti aircraft defence had been taken away by the Germans for use on the Eastern front. Therefore the bombers were able to put their loads in a concentrated space with little or no opposition.

Dresden was not "chosen for destruction". This was a raid on an industrial centre which went exactly right with horrifying consequences due to many circumstances some of which I have listed above.

Why did so many people die?

The 35000 people that died (absolute top number using all available, reliable sources) did so because of the reasons above and the fact that Dresden's Air Raid Precautions were appallingly bad. There were few, if any, properly constructed public shelters despite money having been allocated for them which was spent by the local burghers on Air Raid shelters for their homes in the suburbs.

People therefore sheltered in basements of houses which, due to the firestorm above filled with noxious fumes and killed the occupants before the houses collapsed onto them and burned their corpses.

Many people have claimed in the last 62 years that Dresden was a quiet peaceable town going about its business and waiting for the war to end. Read the paragraphs below which are taken from research by myself and many others for the truth about "quiet, peaceable, nothing to do with the war" Dresden.

In early 1945 the war was far from over. The Allies were still camped outside the borders of Germany, V2 rockets were still falling. The Allies had just fought the battle of the Bulge where the supposedly defeated Germans suddenly punched a huge hole in the Allied lines, German Rocket and Jet aircraft were coming off the production lines and proceeding to rip the hell out of the allied air fleets.

It was an operation undertaken due to many reasons.

1. A request from the Russians at the Yalta conference in February

1945. General Antonov "We want the Dresden railway junction bombed"

Meeting between the Chiefs of staff as reported by an interpreter. Records kept at the Public Records office in Kew

2. It was a German base of operations against Marshall Koniev`s left flank as he advanced into Germany. (See above)

Captured German High Command documents from Berlin in 1945 state that "Dresden is to be fortified as a military strongpoint, to be held at all costs." These statements are also backed up by decrypts from Ultra at Bletchley Park.

3. Munitions storage in the old Dresden Arsenal.

4. Troop reinforcement and transport centre shifting an average 28

troop trains through the marshalling yards every day. Intelligence from Russian and other sources stored in the Public Records office in Kew

5. Communications centre. Most of the telephone lines connecting

High Command to the Eastern front went through Dresden.

6. Quote from The Dresden Chamber of Commerce 1944. "The work rhythm of Dresden is determined by the needs of our army."

There were 127 factories in the Dresden Municipal area. The most

famous of these was Zeiss the celebrated camera and optics maker. In 1945 it was turning out Bomb aiming apparatus and Time fuses. (If you think the Dresden China Works making those lovely shepherdesses are more famous, they are actually made in Meisen 12Km down the River and always have been.)

A factory that previously made Typewriters and sewing machines was making Guns and ammunition

The Waffle and Marzipan machine manufacturer was producing torpedoes for the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe.

The arts and crafts workshops in the old town were using their woodworking skills to make the tail assemblies for V-1s.

Other factories were turning out such non warlike goods as Searchlights, Aircraft components, Field Telephones and 2 way radios.

Yet another quote, "Anyone who knows Dresden only as a cultural city would be very surprised to be made aware of the extensive and versatile activity that make Dresden ONE OF THE FOREMOST INDUSTRIAL LOCATIONS OF THE REICH. (My Capitals)

Sir Arthur Harris? A Post war exponent of the bombing campaign?

Nope both wrong.

It comes from the Dresden City Council Yearbook of 1942. The men who carried out these acts did so in the desire to make a world in which their descendants and countrymen, of whom I am one, could live in freedom from persecution and with a freedom to ask questions and form their own opinions. To those of you who feel it necessary to label them war criminals may I ask if you think that you could have asked a similar question under Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan? Ray.

During World War II, the major areas of conflict were the following: First, the European continent saw the greatest conflict, both at the start of the war and at its end, with tremendous battles fought on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945. Second, the Atlantic Ocean witnessed significant naval clashes, especially between 1941 and 1943. Finally, the Pacific Ocean was the scene of widespread conflict between Allied forces and the Japanese, both on land and at sea.

The Americans decided that they would adopt a "Europe First" strategy, and fight a war of attrition against the Germans in tandem with a Soviet offensive campaign coming from the East to defeat Hitler. Against Japan the Americans took an island-hopping strategy to avoid the cost of rooting out the Japanese defenders on every single island that Japan had taken during their sweeping offensives of 1938-1942.

The bomb was dropped at 8:15 in that morning of august 6 1945. Enola gay, the plane which carried it, lifted up from Tinian airfield located in the Marian Islands. As a matter of fact, the same airfield was used for the Nagasaki bomb. What time did the plane leave the airfield? A calculated hour and a half is a good estimate. This is what any person could tell you about the time since lift up time is not included in the records. Maybe some one with knowledge a bit more than public records will update the answer.

Wikipedia and civilian firms call it that, but there never was such a tank. The US Army's official name for this tank is the M60 Combat Tank, it was the US Army's first semi-official MBT (Main Battle Tank) and was fielded in 1960 (hence the nomenclature). The US Army WANTED to name the M60 the MBT officially, but the paper-work was already processed, and it was more important to get the machine fielded than delaying that process by "fighting over names" so the army just left things as they were...a Combat Tank.

The LAST PATTON tank was the 90mm Gun M48 Patton tank.

Third world countries may be using the M60 tank today. And that's counting countries in Southwest Asia. Most civilized nations (nations than can build their own tanks) are all using the generic M1 Abrams "looking tanks" (design); meaning ceramics and kevlar, etc. instead of traditional cast steel.

By executive order of President Harry S. Truman the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of "Fat Man" over Nagasaki on August 9. These are the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.

The US 36th Infantry Division (in peacetime the Texas-Oklahoma National Guard) was one of the three very experienced veteran divisions to hit the beach in the "second D-Day", on August 15, 1944. These landings were on the Riviera, the Mediterranean coast of France. It had been intended to make these landings at the same time as the troops went ashore in Normandy, June 6, but the Anzio campaign in Italy took too long to finish. All three of the Divisions which landed in southern France August 15 were fresh from Anzio and the capture of Rome.

With these Operation Dragoon landings the Allied line in western Europe, from north to south, was the British 21st Army Group in the North (British 2nd Army, Canadian 1st Army); the US 12th Army Group in the center (US 9th Army, US 1st Army, US 3rd Army); and now ashore in the south the US 6th Army Group (US 7th Army, French 1st Army). When the northern Ardennes Offensive ("Battle of the Bulge") came in December, the attack fell at the juntion of the US 9th and 1st Armies. At that time the 36th ID was part of VI Corps of the US 7th Army. It had been in VI Corps since the landings in August. During the month the Bulge went on the 36th ID was moved to the XXI Corps and then the XV Corps, all still a part of the US 7th Army, the southernmost US Army in the line.

The 7th Army had fought its way through the Vosges Mountains in the autumn of 1944. These mountains had never been crossed in all recorded European history by any army faced with resistance, and had never been been crossed in wintertime by any army, even unopposed. It was a region of steep mountains and few roads, a brutal, grinding campaign for the high ground overlooking one flyspeck village after another, a struggle for the rare crossroads. It was the coldest winter in Europe in one hundred years. The German 19th Army was on the other side. Finally the 7th Army had emerged on the Rhine Plain in early December.

Few remember today that the German plan for the Ardennes Offensive was actually a two-pronged attack. There was the main, massive assault in the north, but also a smaller attack in the south, the goal of which was to prevent the detaching of reinforcements for the north from the south. This southern German attack was Operation Nordwind. It got nowhere against the veteran troops down south.

Just before the Bulge the 36th ID had forced its way across the Muerthe River and through the St Marie Pass onto the Rhine Plain. The Germans made a local counter-attack December 13, but were unable to push the Division back. The 36th ID resumed attacking, northward along the Rhine River, on its west bank, to take Mannheim.

Company K was a rifle company in the 3rd Battalion of the 143rd Infantry. The 143rd Infantry was one of the three infantry regiments in the 36th Infantry Division.

World War II managed to advance world technology, introducing better planes, neculear power and weapons, and advanced medical sciences. No matter how horrid the war is, science always grows out of it thanks to the need to gain bigger and better weapons.

it advanced technology but it also brough an end to hitlers rein and now the Nazis arent very big in the world

America was united against the Nazi & Japanese threat during World War Two.The factories of World War Two were either already producing war-materials, or, as in the case of Ford Motor Company, they were adjusting their assembly lines to fit the needs of war. Other factories followed suit, and eventually, America became a powerhouse, producing thousands of tons of war materials every day. With the more production of war materials, more people were needed to produce these materials. Simply supply and demand. The demand was fed by the war, the supply was provided by the factories in America, hence, the war was dependent on the factories, therefore boosting the economy enormously.