US in WW2

We could have continued the giant thousand plane raids, which were killing about 100,000 people each, and maintained the blockade until enough people (a million? more?) had starved to death to convince the Japanese government to surrender or we could have invaded which likely would have resulted in at least 100,000 American deaths and 1,000,000 Japanese deaths.

Seven. The first US carrier, the USS Langley, had been converted from a collier ( a coal carrier, which looked something like an oil tanker), and was still on the Navy lists but had been converted again, to a seaplane tender, and was incapable of operating aircraft like a regular carrier. The next carriers were the Lexington and the Saratoga (CV 2 and CV 3). Both of these were begun as battle cruisers, but then the US signed the Washington Naval Treaty, which was an effort at arms control and limited the size and number of ships the signatory countries could possess. These uncompleted battle cruisers would either have to be scrapped uncompleted, or they could under the Treaty be completed as carriers, which was what was done. As battle cruisers they had been built with armored hulls, and so were the only carriers the US has ever had with side armor. Both were sunk during the war. The fourth US carrier, and the first designed and built from the keel up to be an aircraft carrier, was the USS Ranger (CV 4). The Ranger was experimental, and proved too small to operate as a heavy fleet carrier in WWII. It survived the war and was scrapped after, having played no part in the great carrier battles of WWII. The next carriers were the Enterprise, Yorktown, Hornet and Wasp. The only one to survive the war was the Enterprise, which participated in every major battle of the Pacific and had twenty battle stars. Unforgivably, she was cut up for scrap also after the war.

So the US had seven carriers when the war began, but only six were useful, large fleet type ships, and the US had two oceans to worry about, so generally only three or four could be allocated to the Pacific at any one time, which gave the Japanese a definite edge, until they were trimmed down to size at Midway.

A typhoon off shore caused a "divine wind" or Kamikaze which dashed the ships on the rocks and spoiled the invasion.

No. Every factory in the US that possibly could be was converted to making something for the war effort, but not everybody lived near those factories. Many people moved to where there was "war work", because there had been no jobs to go get all during the 30s, and the war meant a tremendous opportunity to work and earn good money. But not everyone could pull up stakes and move to where the jobs were, and some women had families they had to take care of, so they did not have time to work a job. Other women were discouraged by their husbands or families from trying to get a job. If you're asking was the entire work force in factories women, again the answer is no. Older men were not subject to being drafted into the military, and men who were rejected because they could not pass the physical were working in the factories. Men with special skills who worked in jobs crucial to the war effort were exempt from the draft. In 1940 there were about 160 million people in the US, and the military had figured out that only about 10% of the total population could be taken for military service without beginning to hurt war production at home. So this was the percentage of the population in uniform for the war, about 16 million. This still left about 65 million males at home, to work and farm and so on, and around 80 million females. Probably a fourth of these were too young and almost as many were too old to work. If a woman lived close enough to areas where war production was going on (and few had access to a car, or gasoline, to travel back and forth to work) and nobody in her life was stopping her, then she could get a job and work as much as she could stand, because overtime was plentiful. But really, factory workers, shipyard workers and so on, including women, were a minority of the overall population.

419,000 Americans died during World War 2, This includes 415 Military Deaths (Including American Colonies) and 2,000 Civilian Deaths.
Over 60 million people. The range is from 50 million to 70 million. :(

i believe a few hundred died as a result of typhoons which struck in the fall of 1945 after japan's surrender. had the united states not dropped the two atomic bombs on japan and an invasion occurred in the fall of 1945 and the spring of 1946, typhoons which struck japan may have severely damaged or destroyed the invasion fleet and hundreds or thousands of allied troops would have killed as a result of the storms in addition to the thousands or hundreds of thousands of casualties which would have occurred in invading japan. add to that an earthquake which struck japan in the spring of 1946 killing hundreds of people. imagine the added devastation that would have to the allied armies fighting in japan. the japanese would have considered these natural acts acts of the gods in punishing the allies for invading japan. the first typhoon in japanese history wiped out a mongol invasion fleet sent to invade japan in 1281. the japanese considered that event an act of the gods in saving japan from invasion, and they named the storm kamikaze or divine wind. thus when world war 2 occurred the japanese planes sent to crash into the allied fleets invading their islands in the pacific and perhaps their country as well were called kamikaze after the storm of 1281. the japanese would have been heartened by the seemingly supernatural events sent by the gods- a series of storms wiping out the invasion fleet and an earthquake killing hundreds or thousands of enemy troops even if these same events killing thousands of japanese. this is why it was best to drop the a bombs when the us did, because these were already a series of air raids which struck japan and damaged their cities and killed scores of people, but that would have been the start of planned military actions against japan. had an invasion actually occurred in 1945 or 1946 events naturally occurring would have devastating for the allied forces invading japan in addition to the thousands of casualties predicted to occur in such an invasion.

Japan attacked the US in 4 ways during WWII. First, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. 2,403 Americans and 55 Japanese died. Secondly, Japan bombed a US Naval Base in Oregon in 1942. Thirdly, the Japanese made over 9000 attacks to the Pacific Northwest with balloons carrying incendiary devices with the intent of burning the US forests. This resulted in the deaths of 6 Americans. Thirdly, Japan attacked various islands in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and occupied Kiska and Attu Islands. 549 Americans and 2351 Japanese died in the Battle of Attu, which ended on May 29, 1943.

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Midway islands

The name of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima is "Little Boy."

The atomic bomb wasn't tested till July 1945 - two months after the war with Germany was over. Also, I believe that the use of the Atomic Bomb was considered very risky. Americans had close ties to Europe and they did not want to totally destroy the German land and culture. Another consideration is that there were probably more Allied being held as prisoners in Germany than being held in Japan. So, as was the case with the bombing of Nagasaki, there would be a risk of killing some of your own soldiers who were being held as prisoners of war.

I'm trying to find information about the same unit. My grandfather was in it I believe. If you found any information you could share, I'd love to see it.

Thanks.

"unconditional surrender"

To stop South Korea from becoming communist.

Depends on which nuclear device your talking about though the largest conventail weapons is the Russian "Father of All Bombs" which is 8 tons and has the equivilent explosive strength of 44 tons of TNT. It is more powerful then the American MOAB which is the same weight accept only yeilds 11 tons TNT since the russians have some advanced fuel which is significantly more explosive then the american counterpart.

Probably the smallest nuke is the American M-28 and M-29 it was 40kg and had the equivilent explosive strength of about 10 tons of TNT.

The largest nuclear missiles in USA service now are generally above 50 tons (with the nuclear fuel being probably only 1% of the weight, thats a guess) and have an equivilent explosive strength of about 1200000 tons of TNT or 1.2 Mt

The largest ever nuclear bomb has Tsar Bomba (early hydrogen bomb) which was 26 tons (10 tons nuclear fuel) and was the equivilent of 5700000 tons of TNT or 57Mt, to put this in perspective it had a fireball with a diameter of 5.3 km, if you were 100 kms away you would still get third degree burns and had the power of all explosives used in WWII times by ten.

So the simplest answer is the largest conventional weapon FOAB about as strong as a small tactical nuke, with current high yield USA missiles being about 30,000 times more powerful, and Tsar Bomba being about 1710000 times more powerful.

Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its niche on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29s delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, and two nuclear weapons.

-Dimensions:

Overall: 900 x 3020cm, 32580kg, 4300cm (29ft 6 5/16in. x 99ft 1in., 71825.9lb., 141ft 15/16in.)

• Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima
• Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki

Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii. Hawaii is a part of the United States of America.

Well the tree people that caused World War II, would have to be: # Adolf Hitler (Germany) # Hiro Hito (Japanese Emperor) # Muselini (Italy)

the short answer is yes. if we didn't establish a beachhead. then the war would have most lkely have expanded to mainland gb. that would have given hitler complete control of the water. and most likely the war.

President Harry S. Truman personally made the decision to use the atomic bombs on Japan, a decision that effectively ended World War 2, saving millions of civilian and military lives.

During World War 2 the total casualty lost by the US were about 418,000.

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