US in WW2

The USAF insignia color (blue) is 15044. The 1 designates a gloss sheen, the 5 means blue, and 044 designate the increasing reflectance. 25044 would be semi-gloss, and 35044 would be a matte color of blue.

Before WWII, 88% of Americans opposed American intervention in "Europe's War." FDR himself tried several ways to avoid intervention by passing the Lend-Lease Act with Britain. He wanted to avoid war but try to help the Allies win. After that plan failed, his only choice was deliberate provocation of the Japanese in order to enter the war, defeat Germany, and preserve democracy and national security. Due to the Pearl Harbor attack, Roosevelt knew that the people would want revenge against the Japanese and would want to enter the war.

MORE AMERICANS AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR SUPPORTED INTERVENTION IN THE WAR THAN BEFORE THE ATTACK.

source: I did a debate on Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory for my APUSH class.

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Fearing that Japanese living in the United States would help Japan, the government gathered up almost 120,000 Japanese-Americans and resident Japanese aliens and placed them in internment camps. Some people remained in the camps for over three years.

WWII was the bloodiest war ever with over 50+ million casualties. Russia: 20+million, Germany 4.5+million, Austria 300k, China 2.5-13.5million, Japan 2million, France 400k, Great Britain, 400k, Poland 300k + 5million(Holocaust), US 290k, Yugoslavia 1.5million.

They took on jobs to keep up the industry and stepped up and took responsibility to keep the homeland running, also when the war started, the men drafted and their wives and girlfriends agreed to make more children to keep the population up during the war, something we couldn't do without them.

Americans thought Japanese Americans were helping japan during ww2

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They used coded telegraphs and message sent by carrier pigeon. And in the 1940s, they had telephones.

The United States declared war on Britain, and immediately launched a full scale invasion of Canada.

There are those who would end the list of combatants there, with only the United States and Britain, since Canada "didn't exist" as an independent country until 1867, but, in fact, the territory along the St Lawrence and west of it had already been known as Canada for two centuries. It's also true that Canadian defenders made up a bigger percentage of the (seriously outnumbered) defending force than the British Army did. While the presence of well-trained British regulars was crucial, there would be no Canada if not for the contribution of the Canadians and aboriginals who, together, made up around 75% of the defenders.

Which brings us to another combatant. Tecumseh's coalition of aboriginal nations comprised the largest group of defenders, and had gone to war as allies of Britain because it's homeland was being threatened.

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2. Midway-IJN loses the cream of it's airmen and flight deck crews (and can never replace them).

Unfortunaely the American fleet was not hiding anywhere. The American fleet was very predictable with its rotations at pearl harbor. Fortunately, the American Carriers were not at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. The Japanese also a very capable human intelligence capability.

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The Nazi Germans were bent on invading all the European nations including the United Kingdom. The Nazis killed millions of people just for being Poles, Danes, Dutch, Belgians, French and for being Jews or Slavs. Those brutal people had to be stopped. Japan was not as big a threat as the Nazis were to the continent of Europe.

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I just finished serving my third tour in Iraq and my first tour in afganstan with the marines and to tell you the truth i love killing those little bastards

Soldiers lifes are in danger everyday from ( IEDS, RPG's, and heavy machine gun ambushes). We depend on Marine cobras and A-10's for air support and M1A2 tanks for combat support. Also the FA/18 super hornet that is flown by marine pilots. Thank god. The FA/18 carries 500 pund JDAM bombs that destroy anything and AG missiles too hit ground targets also, a 30mm machine gun to kill insurgents on strafing runs. Our navy a branch of the Marines or marines a branch of the navy. Is critical for firing tomahawk cruise missles at insurgent positions. But life as an infantry man is very difficult. Alot of ied's and rpg's kill our troops. On the other hand being a soldier is great benefits, maturity, money, and traveling, and of course killing those towelheads.

The camps were dissolved over a period of many months from April to November, 1945 and some individuals (non-US citizens) remained in the camps as late as April, 1946 pending deportation to Japan.

In January, 1945, the US Supreme Court upheld the exclusion of Japanese-Americans from military zones, but ruled that US citizens of Japanese descent could not be detained in camps.

There was Only 2 World Wars. There was no WW3. There was just a bunch of predictions that there will be a WW3 during the Cold War 1970-1991. the two World Wars are WW1 1914-1918 & WW2 1939-1945 The US was involved with both of them. The US entered WW1 against Germany in 1917 And the US entered WW2 in 1941. Against Japan. They began fighting the Germans in 1944 till 1945. Same with Japan. The US both joined the Allied forces during WW1 & WW2.

The US Military is divided into 4 branches: the US Army: the largest of the branches, used for sustained military operations the US Air Force: to control the skies and keep our troops brom being bombed and flying transport and resupply missions. the US Marine Corps: our large, force in readiness, able to mobilize faster than the Army and strike first. the US Navy: to control the sea lanes to keep our troops resupplied and also as the force to mount a "show of force" in areas far from the US The US Military is divided into 4 branches: the US Army: the largest of the branches, used for sustained military operations the US Air Force: to control the skies and keep our troops brom being bombed and flying transport and resupply missions. the US Marine Corps: our large, force in readiness, able to mobilize faster than the Army and strike first. the US Navy: to control the sea lanes to keep our troops resupplied and also as the force to mount a "show of force" in areas far from the US

I think you must mean General (then Colonel) James Doolittle. The "Doolittle Raiders" were sixteen medium bombers, B-25s, launched from an aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet. These were army bombers, much heavier than navy planes, and not intended to take off from a carrier. Carriers at the time did not have catapults to sling airplanes off the deck. The wings of these bombers did not fold like naval planes did, so only sixteen could be fitted on the deck, and none could be gotten down onto the hanger deck. Because the Hornet's deck was covered with these bombers she would be unable to operate her normal naval planes, and so had to be escorted by another carrier, the USS Enterprise. The US had only three aircraft carriers in the Pacific at the time so hazarding two of them on this mission was quite a risk to run. The mission is fairly well portrayed in the recent "Pearl Harbor" movie and was the subject of a much older, black-and-white film, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".

The mission was on April 18, 1942. Little real damage was done to the four Japanese cities bombed, but the psychological effect was enormous, depressing the Japanese and giving a huge boost to American morale, only 4 1/2 months after Pearl Harbor. Colonel Doolittle went on to an illustrious career during the war, and was awarded the Medal of Honor for the raid on Japan.

There were several events leading up to the US calling for war against Germany. These included the Zimmerman Note, Germany announcing a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the sinking of several American ships.

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In the years between WW1 and WW2 military Aircraft became better in every measurable way, this culminated in them being able to carry thousands of tons of bombs or torpedoes.

Warships in WW2 had to deliver their weapons fire from a gun barrel or a torpedo launched off a ship which meant getting to within about 10-25 kilometers of the enemy depending on the type of ship and most front line ships moved 27-34 knots maximum speed. Aircraft moved 5-10 times that speed allowing them to launch from hundreds of kilometers away and return to their base in a relatively short time only risking 3-5 ton Aircraft and not a massive ship. They out ranged their opponents completely while striking within the same weight class compared to firepower.

Gaining air supremacy was especially difficult over the vast Pacific Ocean where real estate to build an airfield that was in range of an enemy was in short supply and in high demand for both the states and Japan so the Aircraft Carrier was essential. It provided an Ocean Airfield wherever one was needed. In the Atlantic they did the same thing but for the most part instead of aiming to sink an enemy fleet Carriers mostly British defended their Merchant Fleet from U-Boats. They also fought against the Italian Fleet in the Mediterranean.

Now days 10 are part of the US fleet and at 100k tons each they are 3 times larger than the Essex class of WW2 and launch advanced Fighter Jets not propeller fighters. They haven't fought any huge prominent Naval Battles since the clashes between the fleets of the US and Japan. They mostly bomb targets and provide fighter cover for invasions and interventions against nations whose entire yearly military spending probably costs less than just one of these new Supercarriers. There are other smaller Carriers in the World but now in 2013 all combined they weigh about half the weight of the 10 Ship US Carrier Fleet sans the 9 smaller VTOL Jet carrying Assault Ships.

The menial policing tasks of small wars keep them occupied until the next big war that hopefully never comes.