Informative Speech On Hawaii War

THESIS

In the early 1940s, an event that was so premeditated and yet so very atrocious hit our nation’s pacific ocean. The state of Hawaii and its famous harbor was left victimized and bleeding as the skies rained down with munitions and kamikaze fighter planes. Many of the members of the armed services found themselves asking one question. What was to come next? As the United States of America and the empire of Japan at the time demonstrated that both sides had its differences no one could have ever expect anything of this magnitude to take place. SPEECH FROM MR. PRESIDENT Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date that will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval

Crewmembers aboard the ships were lost without any idea of what was going on at first. “It was the morning of December 7, 1941 around 8 A.M. and I was asleep in my bunk when the first bomb wave started. At first, I thought the navy was having a maneuver, but then I looked out my window and saw the Japanese planes with the red ball painted on their wings. (Harrington) Throughout the attacks Sailors and Airman, from the entire island of Hawaii, immediately was on alert. As the bombs, bullets, and torpedoes began to drop impacting vessels in the harbor, Soldiers of the American armed forces began to battle back. As the vessels and aircrafts began to fight, the Japanese began to fight harder. It was eminent that Japanese fighter pilots had no plan on returning from this mission, for the aircrafts soon began to shoot from the sky and set their point of impact on vessels. Along with numerous 550-pound general-purpose bombs, one of the most detrimental acts during this time was to our battle ships by the Japanese, was the 1,800-pound weapon that dropped from the clouds directly hitting one of the now famous American ships below, the USS Arizona. It slammed brutally through the deck and landed in the ammunition magazine were the ammunition is stored. The Battle ship soon exploded with a ferocious fireball and soon sank to bottom of the harbor. Over one thousand Sailors lost their lives as they too met their downfall at the bottom of the harbor with their ship, in the Pacific Ocean. Throughout the attacks, 18 American ships had taken damage and almost 300 aircrafts suffered major impact. The most devastating statistic accounted for is the number of fallen service members that had perished or received injuries during this attack. Nearly 2,500 service members lost their lives and another 1,000 injured during this time. Of all the ships that took damage all but two