Pearl Harbor Attack: What Led to It and What Was the Aftermath? By: the editors of Legacy Publishers A view of the USS Shaw exploding at the U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after the Japanese bombing. Lawrence Thornton/Getty Images On July 3, 1941, a little more than a we...
The stone sunk into his forehead. Sink Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. Sink To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength...
Found the wreck where it had sunk. Submerge Cover completely or make imperceptible; I was drowned in work The noise drowned out her speech Sink To fall or drop to a lower level, especially to go down slowly or in stages The water in the lake sank several feet during the long, dry summ...
The ships were being destroyed, “during the Pearl Harbor attack, there were 96 ships anchored. 18 either sunk or were seriously damaged. 8 of them were battleships” (Barker 47). Japan did lots of damage to ships that were anchored, many others were also damaged but not as bad. The U...
What American ship was sunk in the Battle of Midway? What was the Battle of Amiens? How many soldiers fought in the Battle of Midway? Why was the battle called Battle of Midway? What was the Battle of Barbarossa? What was the Battle of Dunkirk? How many Allied troops were in the Battl...
I believe such a war will involve the sinking of one or more US capital ships, likely including one or more US aircraft carriers. I believe such an event will have the same effect as Pearl Harbor and will produce sentiments towards Chinese-Americans much as Pearl Harbor did towards Japanese...
Seventy percent of the merchant ships were sunk or damaged. As a result, Britain lost the sea supremacy (霸权). Though victorious, Britain came out of the war with a huge national debt. Business was slack (萧条的),many factories were closed down and taxes soared. The Great Depression from...
February 23: The USS Henry Bacon becomes the last Allied merchant ship to go down at the hands of the Luftwaffe when it is sunk in the Arctic Sea by German bombers. The U.S. Marines capture Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi and raise a foreign flag on Japanese soil. World War Headlines Belo...
Information from there was sifted thoroughly, categorized and quickly forwarded to Pacific headquarters at Pearl Harbor. As well as the collected paperwork, your dad would have seen a steady stream of Papua New Guinea islanders, the famous Fuzzy Wuzzys. He would have had to really stretch his ...
The stone sunk into his forehead. Sink Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. Sink To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength...