TIMELINE 1942 Jan 2 Japanese capture Manila and Cavite. Jan 11 Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo. Jan 19 Japanese capture North Borneo. Jan 16 Japanese invade Burma. Jan 23 Japanese invade Rabaul. Feb 2 Japanese invade Java. Feb 8 Japanese invade Singapore. Feb 15 British surrender Singapore. Feb 19 Japanese attack Australia. Feb 29 Roosevelt orders MacArthur to withdraw from the Philippines. MacArthur vows, “I shall return.” Feb 23 Japanese attack USA mainland at a Santa Barbara Oil Refinery; The war was quickly stacking up
TIMELINE 1939 Aug. 23 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact - Nazi Germany and Russian agree to splits Poland. Sept. 01 WW2 starts with the attack of Germany on Poland. Sept. 29 Tychin becomes a part of Russia.
TIMELINE 1941 Focused on the Pacific
Aug 28 Herman (age 17) sponsors a meeting of the Iota Chapter of Sigma Alpha Rho Fraternity in Chester
against the allies. If Australia were to fall, the whole region would be under enemy control. Australia fought mercilessly in New Guinea to stop the Japanese and slowly turned the tide. The Japanese have naval and air superiority. MacArthur abandons the Philippines, leaving behind 90,000 American and Filipino troops. Lacking food, supplies, and support they succumb to the Japanese offensive. To turn the tide of public opinion, a one-way mission is launched at the Japanese mainland. It came to be known as the Doolittle raid. A group of B-25s drops bombs on the mainland, then crash-land in China.
Excerpt, Chester Times, Aug 28, 1941 Herman joins Sigma Alpha Rho
Apr 9 US surrenders Bataan. Mar
Dec 7 Japanese surprise attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii/ They also bomb the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai, and Midway. Dec 8 US and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand. Dec 9 China declares war on Japan. Dec 10 Japanese invade the Philippines and also seize Guam. Dec 11 Japanese invade Burma. Dec 15 First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a US submarine. Dec 16 Japanese invade British Borneo. Dec 18 Japanese invade Hong Kong. Dec 22 Japanese invade Luzon in the Philippines. Dec 23 General Douglas MacArthur begins a withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take Wake Island. Dec 25 British surrender Hong Kong. Dec 26 Manila declared an open city. Dec 27 Japanese bomb Manila.
May 6 General Wainwright
unconditionally surrenders all US and Filipino forces in the Philippines. May 7-8 The Battle of the Coral Sea. Using aircraft carriers, the entire battle is fought in the air, with a victory declared by the US Herman graduates high school. Jun 4-5 The Battle of Midway marks the turning point of the war. The Japanese lose four aircraft carriers the US lose one
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