US in WW2

It made the planned invasions of Japan at the end of 1945 and the spring of 1946 unnecessary, shortening the war by at least a year (and possibly as much as 10 years, depending on the sources you look at). It also caused the USSR to end peace negotiations with Japan and begin their already planned invasion of northern Japan sooner than they had agreed to at Potsdam (which according to some sources may have been more significant in forcing the Japanese surrender than the bombs themselves were).

The sudden end of WWII. Many have bemoaned the A-bombing of Japan, but FAR more lives would have been lost by an invasion. Furthermore the Russians and Chinese were ready to pitch in and simply slaughter the Japanese. You could argue that the Pacific war (and the European war) could have been prevented, and that US actions at least partly forced the Japanese to start the war with the US, but the A-bombs were the quickest, cleanest, cheapest way to end it. By the way...there was a third A-bomb with Tokyo's name on it in transit when the Japanese surrendered, and Berlin was due for one had the European war continued a few months more.

There have been two US father and son recipients of the Medal of Honor: General Arthur MacArthur (Civil War) and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur; and Theodore Roosevelt (US Volunteers Colonel) and General Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

No, Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Little Boy was the first atomic bomb to be used during warfare.

There were sixteen B-25 Mitchell medium bombers on the raid. This was all that could be crowded on the deck of the USS Hornet, and still leave enough flight deck forward so the first ones had room to take off. Unlike carrier aircraft the wings of the B-25 did not fold up, so they could not fit on the elevators of the aircraft carriers and be stowed below on the hanger deck. The B-25 was a big plane compared to carrier aircraft, far bigger than anything which usually operated off a carrier. Because the Hornet's deck was covered with these big army bombers she could not operate her normal airplanes, and had to have another aircraft carrier along to provide air cover. The USS Enterprise went for this duty, so the US risked two of the three aircraft carriers it had in the Pacific on this daring raid.

Doolittle chose the crews from among volunteers at Eglin Field, Florida. A B-25 normally flew with a six man crew, but one gunner was left off on the raid, to save weight. Each plane flew with a crew of five, so there were eighty men involved including Doolittle, 52 officers and 28 enlisted men.

The two carriers were supposed to close to within two hundred miles of Japan to launch the bombers. This would allow the bombers enough flight time to reach China after bombing Japanese cities. The carriers encountered a Japanese picket boat six hundred miles from japan, which was quickly sunk, but no one knew if it had gotten off a radio message reporting their presence before being sunk. The carriers would have to turn back immediately. Doolittle decided to proceed with the raid anyway, even though this would scarcely leave the bombers sufficient fuel to reach the coast of China, and no hope of reaching inland airfields. The bombers were quickly launched. Because of this fuel crunch all the bombers were lost, though one did manage to land in Siberia and was interned with its crew by the Russians, who were not at war with Japan. Three of the raiders were killed. Two of these were killed when their bomber crashed near Japan, as did another bomber. The eight survivors of those two bombers were taken prisoner by the Japanese, and were tortured and starved. One died of disease in captivity. Three were executed by the Japanese, after being tried as war criminals (something the Japanese certainly knew plenty about).

Of the crews of the bombers that reached China, one became the third of the raid to die, when bailing out of his bomber as it ran out of fuel. The rest eventually reached safety and returned to service, with the help of Chinese civilians and soldiers. One was helped by Mao Tse Tung and his communists. The Chinese who helped these Americans evade the Japanese and escape paid very dearly for this act of "disloyalty" to the Japanese invaders. An estimated 250,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese while searching for the Doolittle raiders.

Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle was promoted to brigadier general and awarded the Medal of Honor. Two others earned a Silver Star and all 80 the Distinguished Flying Cross. All also got a decoration from the Chinese government. Several earned Purple Hearts.

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Lieutenant commander is an O-4, the equivalent of Major in the other branches. A commander is O-5, same as a lieutenant colonel in the other branches.

Equivalent ranks, navy given first:

O-1 Ensign - Second Lieutenant

O-2 Lieutenant junior grade - First Lieutenant

O-3 Lieutenant - Captain

O-4 Lieutenant commander - Major

O-5 Commander - Lieutenant colonel

O-6 Captain - Colonel

O-7 Rear admiral, lower half - Brigadier general

O-8 Rear admiral, upper half - Major general

O-9 Vice Admiral - Lieutenant general

O-10 Admiral - General

O-11 there have only been ten officers of this rank, all WWII commanders - Admiral of the Fleet - General of the Army

Some claim that General Pershing and George Washington (by posthumous congressional action) held six-star rank, as General of the Armies. During Washington's service he was a Lieutenant general.

George Catlett Marshall. One of the greatest Americans ever. He took over as Chief of Staff on September 3, 1939, two days after Nazi tanks rolled into Poland. He inherited an army equipped and mentally prepared to re-fight WWI. He was the true architect of victory, growing the US Army from a strength of about 200,000 (21st largest in the world) to more than eight million. Additionally, at that time the air force was the US Army Air Corp, also under Marshall's command, which grew to over three million strong, with thousands of aircraft.

Postwar, he was retired for six days, when Truman called on him as a special envoy to China. After this he became Secretary of State, and laid the foundation for the miraculous recovery of Europe with the Marshall Plan.

Marshall had always planned to lead the invasion of Europe personally when the time came, but Roosevelt would not allow this, saying he could not sleep at night if Marshall was away from Washington. Instead the command went to his protege, Eisenhower. Had Marshall been allowed to take the field, its likely he would have been president instead of Ike, and it would take a real historian to know who Eisenhower was.

Marshall was not a West Pointer. He graduated from VMI (the Virginia Military Institute) in 1915.

Name of Pakistani army chief is Ashfaq Kiyani

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"Fat Man", the Atomic bomb that was dropped on August 6, 1945 upon the city of Hiroshima, Japan had a blast yield of 21 kilotons.

A lot. It is wise to state which period of time. In past 100 years, two main war are World War 1 and 2, both started by Germany. Except that world war 1 is led by German Monarch while World War 2 was led by Nazis.

Following World War II, the United States funneled approximately $12 billion in loans, credits and trade agreements directed towards the recovery of Europe via the Marshall Plan. The expectation was to extract the maximum in political as well as eventually economic benefits.

The Lend-Lease Act was passed on March 11, 1941.

Lend-Lease was a program of the United States Federal government during World War II which enabled the United States to provide the Allied nations with war material while the US was still officially a neutral country. The Lend-Lease program began in March 1941, nine months before the US entered the war in December of 1941. Lend-Lease came on the heels of Cash and Carry, following correspondence between Churchill and FDR on the economic status of England and their inability to pay for and transport materials as they once did. It ended soon after V-J Day, on September 2, 1945. This program was the first large step away from American isolationism and towards international involvement since the end of WWI.

It provided $51 Billion to 45 allied countries "lending" weapons, food and supplies to England, Russia and China and any country vital to winning the war.

Because no enemy truly deserves to have such long lasting damage. There is probably still fallout floating around the cities, which means that Japanese people who never did anything to America are still getting sick because of the nuke.

that is nothing more than their way of looking at it. and also it is perfectly okay in their eyes to believe the dropping of bomb was not justified....

everyone has the right to speech ...(At least in India...)

Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, CG Tenth Army, killed June 18, 1945 on Okinawa. (Posthumously promoted to General in 1954.)

Rear Adm. Daniel J. Callahan, killed November 13, 1942 aboard USS SAN FRANCISCO (CA-38) at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Rear Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, killed December 7, 1941 aboard USS ARIZONA (BB-39) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, CG Army Ground Forces (training & doctrine), killed July 25, 1944 in France by "friendly fire" (posthumously promoted to General in 1954). His son, Colonel Douglas McNair, chief of staff of the 77th Infantry Division, was killed two weeks later by a sniper on Guam.

Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, CG, 3rd Armored Division, killed in action in Germany on March 30, 1945.

Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., ADC, 4th Infantry Division, July 12, 1944 (heart attack). Roosevelt suffered from severe arthritis (walked with a cane) and diagnosed heart problems. He was the only general officer to land with the first wave on D-Day (June 6, 1944). Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on that day.

Rear Adm. Norman Scott, killed November 13, 1942 aboard USS ATLANTA (CL-51) at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Brig. Gen. James Wharton, CG 28th Infantry Division, killed in France on August 12, 1944.

"Nearly 1,100 U.S. Army generals served at some point during World War II, and of those about 40 died during or immediately following the war. Not all were in combat units, and some were not in enemy territory when they died.

Of these generals, at least 11 were killed in action or died of wounds from hostile actions, two were executed by the Japanese while POWs, four were killed in plane crashes, one was killed by friendly fire, and five died of natural causes, including two of heart attacks. The remainder died of various causes in the first few months after the end of hostilities."

In many ways, the Soviet Union collapsed of it's own weight, having spent so much of it's budget on military buildup, for decades. Of course, getting mired in their war against Afghanistan, which received massive covert funding from the United States did not help the Soviets much either. It even resulted in a sort of generational distrust of the old Soviet guard by the younger military members. Just like Vietnam did to the United States, with our protests and our generation gap.

Afghanistan was a major drain on Soviet money, military personnel and equipment. It was their version of what happened to the United States in Vietnam. In this modern age of instant satellite media, it was also becoming harder to control everyone's news intake. American president Ronald Reagan dared the Soviet Union to tear down the Iron Curtain (by association, the Berlin Wall). By the end of the 1980's, the Soviet Union was going sour. Reformation efforts by acting leader Mikhail Gorbachev further pushed things over the edge for the old Soviet ways, which were being replaced by his "'Glasnost" movement.

The world was electrified when the Soviet Union flew the old Russian flag over the Kremlin, and the Berlin Wall came down.

I'm not sure where abouts your asking, but the Americans dropped "fat man" and "little boy" to try and end the second world war. It was the first, and last use of an atomic bomb on actual human beings.

Many Japanese cities were bombed by the United States during WWII. Only two were attacked with nuclear weapons: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, it is estimated that the firebombing of Tokyo with conventional incendiary bombs actually killed the most people.

i think it was maybe because the more stable Europe was the more they would export from the US.. during the war they were exporting lots of war materials and that helped the US greatly during the depression..more money was being pumped into the country.. but i guess that doesn't REALLY answer the question. I'm writting a paper on this now and i wish more people left answers...that's all I've got.

I think the question is asking for a very distorted view of History.......Why would any nation ever enter a war for economic reasons ????? Put simply the US entered WW2 because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. I accept there were economic factors concerning the US entry into the war, of course there were, but to suggest there were reasons.... Hmmm well, you've got me thinking, I'll give you that !

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The answer is yes, lasers can destroy incoming missiles and bombs.

Desperate to offset their rapidly burgeoning population, and intent on getting hold of many valuable resources, Japan infamously conquered the north-east Chinese region of Manchuria prior to WW2. This could be seen by many historians as the end of the League of Nations, and the true start of the war.