PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Japanese attacked on December 7th, 1941
CASUALTIES
2,500 people died
1,000 wounded
18 ships, 8 battleships, and 300 planes destroyed
"My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad."
-John Lasseter
President Roosevelt declared war on Japan
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people will through their righteous might win through to absolute victory... With confidence in our armed forces-with the unbounded determination of our people-we will gain the inevitable triumph-so help us God. I, therefore, ask that the Congress declare that since the dastardly and unprovoked attack by Japan on Sunday, December seventh, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
The U.S dropped a bomb on August 6th, 1945 from a B-29 (Enola Gay)
"The mushroom cloud itself was a spectacular sight, a bubbling mass of purple-gray smoke and you could see it had a red core in it and everything was burning inside. . . . It looked like lava or molasses covering a whole city. . . ."
-Staff Sergeant George Caron
"Where we had seen a clear city two minutes before, we could no longer see the city. We could see smoke and fires creeping up the sides of the mountains."
-Captain Robert Lewis
The appearance of people was . . . well, they all had skin blackened by burns. . . They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn't tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back. . . They held their arms bent forward like this . . . and their skin - not only on their hands, but on their faces and bodies too - hung down. . . If there had been only one or two such people . . . perhaps I would not have had such a strong impression. But wherever I walked I met these people. . . Many of them died along the road - I can still picture them in my mind - like walking ghosts.
CASUALTIES
150,000 people died
The U.S dropped another bomb on August 9th, 1945 from a B-29 (Bock's Car)
"The pumpkin field in front of the house was blown clean. Nothing was left of the whole thick crop, except that in place of the pumpkins there was a woman's head. I looked at the face to see if I knew her. It was a woman of about forty. She must have been from another part of town. I had never seen her around here. A gold tooth gleamed in the wide-open mouth. A handful of singed hair hung down from the left temple over her cheek, dangling in her mouth. Her eyelids were drawn up, showing black holes where the eyes had been burned out. . . She had probably looked square into the flash and gotten her eyeballs burned."
-Fujie Urata Matsumoto
CASUALTIES
60,000 - 80,000 people died
