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Opinion/Personal overview on Project
1.
I must say that this project truly was an amazing experience. Interviewing WWII veterans really gave me a big insight on how it was back then, not just in the war, but lifestyle in general. Being around such an important person made me feel important and made me feel honored to be graced by his presence. It may seem a bit over-exaggerated, but I did truly feel honored and dis-believing that someone who had lived, fought and experienced the war first hand would actually come and talk to me, a simple 8th grader trying to get by this project due in a few days. I don't think we appreciate the war veterans as much as we should and don't really know much at all even though we think we do. Being around him and his office full of memoirs, photos and such gave me an insight on how it went in the war, what they went through each day, what achievements they received, etc. When he answered our questions, he spoke with great pride and while he was describing each scenario I would be captivated myself and imagine vividly each scene. Being around Mr. James Teale made me realize what a big deal the war really was and helped me realize it too. I think that oral history projects like this one should continue because, without them we wouldn't really exactly remember what it was like back then and even though I'm sure some one will always know what was WWII, but that doesn't mean that it can't be forgotten. History as important as this event shouldn't be, and projects like these are what keeps people living the memory. After interviewing Mr. Teale, I am sure that I will most likely always remember that interview and how important it was for him and how important it was to fight for what you believed in, for your country and for what is right. Thank you for reading,
-Sue Ng
2. For me this was an amazing experience. Not only did I meet a true legend, but I did in fact learn so much. Sue, had already met him, but for me meeting him for the first time it was amazing. Its like you meet a piece of history. I really did enjoy meeting and interviewing Mr. Teale, and honored that he took the time out of his busy schedule to talk to two 8th grade girls for a project. I still can’t believe that I have met such a legend.
- Emily Ramirez
3. In my opinion this project was magnificent and wonderful to work on. It has helped me to learn about WW2 and to remember the horrors of it and not to repeat them. It has also helped me to learn more about my family history. As a history fanatic I have always read and seen documentaries and reenactment of WW2, but I never had the chance to see or hear stories about WW2 from personal perspective of the memories of those that served and lived threw the days of WW2; that is exactly what this project has helped to accomplish. The project has helped me learn more about WW2 and understand the nightmare that WW2 was, not only to those that were kept as fugitives but also those that feared the enemy attacking at their own front door.The project also helped my family remember all the items that they had from the war and I got to see them and hear stories about them. As a result a lot of those items were given to me and now I have a large collection of Wolrd War 2 which I admire. This was an excellent idea to make into a project and I give my thanks to Ms. Mast who came up with the project and Ms. Zayas who helped and supervised us to start and finish the project.
- Manuel De Juan
I must say that this project truly was an amazing experience. Interviewing WWII veterans really gave me a big insight on how it was back then, not just in the war, but lifestyle in general. Being around such an important person made me feel important and made me feel honored to be graced by his presence. It may seem a bit over-exaggerated, but I did truly feel honored and dis-believing that someone who had lived, fought and experienced the war first hand would actually come and talk to me, a simple 8th grader trying to get by this project due in a few days. I don't think we appreciate the war veterans as much as we should and don't really know much at all even though we think we do. Being around him and his office full of memoirs, photos and such gave me an insight on how it went in the war, what they went through each day, what achievements they received, etc. When he answered our questions, he spoke with great pride and while he was describing each scenario I would be captivated myself and imagine vividly each scene. Being around Mr. James Teale made me realize what a big deal the war really was and helped me realize it too. I think that oral history projects like this one should continue because, without them we wouldn't really exactly remember what it was like back then and even though I'm sure some one will always know what was WWII, but that doesn't mean that it can't be forgotten. History as important as this event shouldn't be, and projects like these are what keeps people living the memory. After interviewing Mr. Teale, I am sure that I will most likely always remember that interview and how important it was for him and how important it was to fight for what you believed in, for your country and for what is right. Thank you for reading,
-Sue Ng
2. For me this was an amazing experience. Not only did I meet a true legend, but I did in fact learn so much. Sue, had already met him, but for me meeting him for the first time it was amazing. Its like you meet a piece of history. I really did enjoy meeting and interviewing Mr. Teale, and honored that he took the time out of his busy schedule to talk to two 8th grade girls for a project. I still can’t believe that I have met such a legend.
- Emily Ramirez
3. In my opinion this project was magnificent and wonderful to work on. It has helped me to learn about WW2 and to remember the horrors of it and not to repeat them. It has also helped me to learn more about my family history. As a history fanatic I have always read and seen documentaries and reenactment of WW2, but I never had the chance to see or hear stories about WW2 from personal perspective of the memories of those that served and lived threw the days of WW2; that is exactly what this project has helped to accomplish. The project has helped me learn more about WW2 and understand the nightmare that WW2 was, not only to those that were kept as fugitives but also those that feared the enemy attacking at their own front door.The project also helped my family remember all the items that they had from the war and I got to see them and hear stories about them. As a result a lot of those items were given to me and now I have a large collection of Wolrd War 2 which I admire. This was an excellent idea to make into a project and I give my thanks to Ms. Mast who came up with the project and Ms. Zayas who helped and supervised us to start and finish the project.
- Manuel De Juan
Transcript
-tape beings-
Yeah, a PT boat, one those -points at picture of PT boat on his wall-. You remember President Kennedy?
–interrupted by father-
Where-where’s your camera?
I-I didn’t bring it! I’m so sorry… -laughs nervously-
-father interrupts again-
You know, I-I saw these pictures, that’s why-that’s why I realized that Don Jim is one of these….
That was a uhhh…
One of these uhhh…
Remember the story of President Kennedy? When he was young…?
-answers hurriedly- Yeah—yeah!
He was run over by a Destroyer, a Japanese Destroyer. He was on a PT boat, they’re called um, Torpedo boats, and that’s what a torpedo boat. That’s a picture of mine over there –points at photo on his wall- And uhh, that’s a torpedo boat in action. And there’s--see that picture up there in the corner?
Yeah.
That’s my crew.
Oh.
The 1-15
Oh my gosh.
Yeah! Ohhh.
-clacking noise and clatter heard in the background-
Well you guys want to interview Mr. Teale?
Yes
This young—they-they’re learning how to be young reporters now.
Well, that’s good!
Okay! Let’s see what we can do today…
You-you wanna start?
O-okay. Well, we’re gonna start off with some really simple question.
Sure.
Umm, so, where did you come from?
Where did I come from?
Yeah, where were you born…?
Well I was born in uhh, a little town called Elyria, Ohio. E-L-Y-R-I-A, and I was raised mostly in Minnesota.
And how was it like there…?
How was it in Minnesota?
Yeah.
Well it was wonderful in the summer time, and coooold in the winter. There was a lake by it, and we would fish in the winter time and fish in the summer time.
Uhh, so when were you born?
When? What year??
Yeah, in what year?
Oh wow—
I don’t think he wants to review that –laughs-
Ohhh wow…Ohhh yeah, I remember that. Well, I was born almost eighty-eight years ago, in 1922. June, 1922. That’s almost eighty eight years.
Wow….When did you join?
When did I join the Navy? Uhh…-pregnant pause- Ya know in December 7th it was. In 1941, I joined the Navy about one month after that happened. I joined January, 1942. I volunteered.
-surprised tone- Oh! You volunteered!
Yeah!
-noises of praise and agreement-
Oh wow!
Cool.
That’s a memorable thing.
Yeah…Well, see I had just started college, and uh, I volunteered immediately and then-then they let me stay for a little while uhh, for a few months until they found a place for me, to send me to officer school, and after officer school I graduated from officer school, then I went to uhh, PT boats. Then I went out—I went out , I had two tours of duty in the South Pacific during—during the war. I went in ’42 and I- I mustered out in ’46. So I was four years in there.
Which war did you serve at?
Hmm…?
-repeats question- Which war did you serve at?
I served in World War II, against the Japanese.
Hmm, against the Japanese.
That’s why he loves Japanese food.
-laughter-
Well he makes good Japanese food!
Uhhh, who did you serve under?
Well, well this is interesting. Most people think that uh, if you’re in the navy, you serve under a navy command. In the—in the Pacific, there were two commands. Command under Admiral Nimitz and he commanded the Northern part of the South Pacific. You have to have a—a image. Here—here’s a globe. Here you can look at it here.
-clatter and ruckus heard-
It’s okay, you can sit!
See, here is the Pacific- the Pacific ocean, and uhh, and Nimitz patrolled all the activity in this part—
-father interrupts-
Japan, Alaska…?
All this going here and Mr. Mcarther patrolled all of the parts through New Guinea and Australia.
Does it involve Alaska at that moment? No right?
Uh, Alaska was—
-father interrupts-
Up here.
Yeah. Because they invaded—Japanese invaded Alaska.
Right.
So there were two commands.
And you? Direct or mostly reported to…?
I well—We were small, ya know? The whole team. But, uhh but through the navy command, they answered Mr. Mcarther, at that time. Other navy commands that answered to Admiral Nimitz.
So when you served, was it already after Japanese invaded China, or before?
Oh well, the Japanese invaded China in 1937. They invaded Manchuria, came down West coast of China. And then that’s 1937 and they continued expanding down the West coast and finally in 1941, when they bombed Pearl Harbor, they continued with a very fast advanced to Indo—Chi? Indo- China?
Yeah, Indo-China.
And the Phillipines and took all their islands down there.
What exactly did you do in the war? Like, you were in the navy…?
I was in the navy, eventually was captain of a PT boat, one of those. Now a captain—now I wasn’t a captain, like a big guy. I was what they called uhh, just a minor officer. I was in command of a little PT boat.
Umm, drr, ohhh, did you ever fight against anybody, like…?
Oh yeah. You see this pictures here? –points at pictures-
Ohhh.
That’s what we did. We would go out on patrol every third night and we would go behind enemy lines and each every once in a while in—in fights like that.
What weapons did you carry on the boat?
We had-- You would understand this—we had forty mm guns—here I could show you again—we had forty mm and two twin fifty calibers, a twenty mm and uhh and that’s a twenty mm. Forty, twenty, two fifties, four torpedoes—
Against submarines?
Oh yeah.
Ooo wow.
And—and a set of rocket. Five inch rockets. We had a lot of armery, lot of weapons.
So you can detect submarines also?
Oh we can fire at ‘em, yeah.
Interesting.
That’s cool…
How long did you fight for? How long were you in the war?
Well I was in the navy for four years and in the war for three years.
And in those—in that time, did you get any awards or medals?
Well, we got uh, We got what they would call Battle Stars. When you’re in uh, engaged, when you’re engaged in a big battle, like when we went on patrol, not like that, but when we engaged in battle we got Battle Stars. ‘cuz I was in the invasion of –incomprehensible name- and in the invasion of Morotai. And we got uh, Battle stars for that. Apart from that, we just did our regular duties. We didn’t go lookin’ for trouble.
-laughter-
Ummm….
My-my daughter—you girls go to Saint Johns School?
Yeah.
Yeah.
See this is a picture of my daughter when she went to Saint Johns School.
-laughs-
Really??
Oh wow –laughs-.
She was there—let’s see—She’s now fifty-six years old…she went—
She went to Saint Johns??
Yeah, she went to Saint Johns.
OH WOOOW.
Yes, both my daughters did.
Ohh cool.
So they know Puerto Rico than I am!
Ohh yeah! They were raised in Puerto Rico! Born! They were born in Puerto Rico.
Umm, soo,--
Did you make any good friends, or any acquaintances or someone you remember specifically during the time?
Ohh. Ehh, when you’re on a PT boat, you have a crew. A crew of men. And there were two officers and ten men on that boat, and they became family. You knew them very very well, and that’s an interesting question because, you see this? That picture up there. That’s my crew.you also see under the 1-15 a picture of a goat. Well, that’s the goat. –points at the goat- That’s the only thing we saved from the boat.
Oh wow…
If you look carefully you’ll see writing on that goat
Yeah
That’s all the members of the crew. All the names.
Oh wow.
They all survived?
They all survived.
-sounds of astonishment and praise-
So you’re a great commander, a great captain.
Heh, we’re all lucky. That’s it. We’re all lucky, yeah.
And did you ever lose anybody, under your command?
Not directly, no.
Okay.
But when we go on patrol we go on another boat and uhh and when we go on patrol we lose someone on the other boats. But uhh, that’s a chance we take.
Is it like really hard for you to talk about the war or does it come really simply?
Well, most of it I don’t mind talking about, I like to talk about it, uhhh there’s a few little things I don’t like to talk about -- some of my friends would die of malaria, there was some unfortunate things, you can’t forget them but—
-Father interrupts-
You can tell that he is one of the proud veterans
Yeah
He is proud of what he did—he served well
At the time, when you were serving –cough- excuse me, did you believe that the war was really necessary?
Did I think it was necessary? Oh, at that time because remember, we were attacked which wasn’t like Afghanistan or Iraq. We were attacked, physically attacked, and remember, we did not go into World War 2 until we were attacked. That war was going on for two years in Europe. Uhhh between the Germans and the French and the English, uhh but it took the attack of Pearl Harbor for us to enter the war—Yes I was very – that’s why I volunteered, I was very supportive of the war.
So you were proud to serve?
Oh yes, oh yes—to stabilize the world—I was very proud to serve
Uhh do you think you have any memorable memories, coming from serving at the war, any distinct—
Well, yeah, I have all my memories I-I have a lot of them
But something more distinctive
Yeah like something more distinctive? Like something to brag about or to--
Not just to brag about, but it really like, it stuck with him, and he’ll like always remember it for--
Well, there are so many things I think about, for instance, uhh when we—we call these things fire fights when we get into a fight like that –points at picture of a fire fight- , those are always memorable because you are scared to death while you are in a fire fight, so you never forget those, but there are so many. Oh, I remember the day when we would uh have leisure and uh we’d take the boat out and we’d anchor, over a reef, by a reef, so the men could just go swimming, and we’d swim without any clothes because there was nobody around and there was always a lot of sharks
-gasp/laugh-
Hammerhead sharks, you know the ones with the –uses hands to show how hammer head shark looks like-
Oh yeah!
And we would have to put a-a person on the fifty caliber, up there –points at spot on picture where gun is- to watch for the sharks coming in and if they saw a shark, they would fire a blast,
Wow
But they wouldn’t really kill the shark, but they’d scare them away, but anyway those are just—
-phone rings-
Im so sorry
Soo..
You have another question Emily?
No, I think you answered all our questions.
Weren’t you glad to meet somebody like this?
Yeah.
I feel really honored.
Well thank you.
Thank you, Don Jim.
Thank you for coming in.
-rambling thank-you’s-
Thank you for letting us come to the office
Yeah my pleasure!
So you girls write it up good!
They will, they will!
Yeah, a PT boat, one those -points at picture of PT boat on his wall-. You remember President Kennedy?
–interrupted by father-
Where-where’s your camera?
I-I didn’t bring it! I’m so sorry… -laughs nervously-
-father interrupts again-
You know, I-I saw these pictures, that’s why-that’s why I realized that Don Jim is one of these….
That was a uhhh…
One of these uhhh…
Remember the story of President Kennedy? When he was young…?
-answers hurriedly- Yeah—yeah!
He was run over by a Destroyer, a Japanese Destroyer. He was on a PT boat, they’re called um, Torpedo boats, and that’s what a torpedo boat. That’s a picture of mine over there –points at photo on his wall- And uhh, that’s a torpedo boat in action. And there’s--see that picture up there in the corner?
Yeah.
That’s my crew.
Oh.
The 1-15
Oh my gosh.
Yeah! Ohhh.
-clacking noise and clatter heard in the background-
Well you guys want to interview Mr. Teale?
Yes
This young—they-they’re learning how to be young reporters now.
Well, that’s good!
Okay! Let’s see what we can do today…
You-you wanna start?
O-okay. Well, we’re gonna start off with some really simple question.
Sure.
Umm, so, where did you come from?
Where did I come from?
Yeah, where were you born…?
Well I was born in uhh, a little town called Elyria, Ohio. E-L-Y-R-I-A, and I was raised mostly in Minnesota.
And how was it like there…?
How was it in Minnesota?
Yeah.
Well it was wonderful in the summer time, and coooold in the winter. There was a lake by it, and we would fish in the winter time and fish in the summer time.
Uhh, so when were you born?
When? What year??
Yeah, in what year?
Oh wow—
I don’t think he wants to review that –laughs-
Ohhh wow…Ohhh yeah, I remember that. Well, I was born almost eighty-eight years ago, in 1922. June, 1922. That’s almost eighty eight years.
Wow….When did you join?
When did I join the Navy? Uhh…-pregnant pause- Ya know in December 7th it was. In 1941, I joined the Navy about one month after that happened. I joined January, 1942. I volunteered.
-surprised tone- Oh! You volunteered!
Yeah!
-noises of praise and agreement-
Oh wow!
Cool.
That’s a memorable thing.
Yeah…Well, see I had just started college, and uh, I volunteered immediately and then-then they let me stay for a little while uhh, for a few months until they found a place for me, to send me to officer school, and after officer school I graduated from officer school, then I went to uhh, PT boats. Then I went out—I went out , I had two tours of duty in the South Pacific during—during the war. I went in ’42 and I- I mustered out in ’46. So I was four years in there.
Which war did you serve at?
Hmm…?
-repeats question- Which war did you serve at?
I served in World War II, against the Japanese.
Hmm, against the Japanese.
That’s why he loves Japanese food.
-laughter-
Well he makes good Japanese food!
Uhhh, who did you serve under?
Well, well this is interesting. Most people think that uh, if you’re in the navy, you serve under a navy command. In the—in the Pacific, there were two commands. Command under Admiral Nimitz and he commanded the Northern part of the South Pacific. You have to have a—a image. Here—here’s a globe. Here you can look at it here.
-clatter and ruckus heard-
It’s okay, you can sit!
See, here is the Pacific- the Pacific ocean, and uhh, and Nimitz patrolled all the activity in this part—
-father interrupts-
Japan, Alaska…?
All this going here and Mr. Mcarther patrolled all of the parts through New Guinea and Australia.
Does it involve Alaska at that moment? No right?
Uh, Alaska was—
-father interrupts-
Up here.
Yeah. Because they invaded—Japanese invaded Alaska.
Right.
So there were two commands.
And you? Direct or mostly reported to…?
I well—We were small, ya know? The whole team. But, uhh but through the navy command, they answered Mr. Mcarther, at that time. Other navy commands that answered to Admiral Nimitz.
So when you served, was it already after Japanese invaded China, or before?
Oh well, the Japanese invaded China in 1937. They invaded Manchuria, came down West coast of China. And then that’s 1937 and they continued expanding down the West coast and finally in 1941, when they bombed Pearl Harbor, they continued with a very fast advanced to Indo—Chi? Indo- China?
Yeah, Indo-China.
And the Phillipines and took all their islands down there.
What exactly did you do in the war? Like, you were in the navy…?
I was in the navy, eventually was captain of a PT boat, one of those. Now a captain—now I wasn’t a captain, like a big guy. I was what they called uhh, just a minor officer. I was in command of a little PT boat.
Umm, drr, ohhh, did you ever fight against anybody, like…?
Oh yeah. You see this pictures here? –points at pictures-
Ohhh.
That’s what we did. We would go out on patrol every third night and we would go behind enemy lines and each every once in a while in—in fights like that.
What weapons did you carry on the boat?
We had-- You would understand this—we had forty mm guns—here I could show you again—we had forty mm and two twin fifty calibers, a twenty mm and uhh and that’s a twenty mm. Forty, twenty, two fifties, four torpedoes—
Against submarines?
Oh yeah.
Ooo wow.
And—and a set of rocket. Five inch rockets. We had a lot of armery, lot of weapons.
So you can detect submarines also?
Oh we can fire at ‘em, yeah.
Interesting.
That’s cool…
How long did you fight for? How long were you in the war?
Well I was in the navy for four years and in the war for three years.
And in those—in that time, did you get any awards or medals?
Well, we got uh, We got what they would call Battle Stars. When you’re in uh, engaged, when you’re engaged in a big battle, like when we went on patrol, not like that, but when we engaged in battle we got Battle Stars. ‘cuz I was in the invasion of –incomprehensible name- and in the invasion of Morotai. And we got uh, Battle stars for that. Apart from that, we just did our regular duties. We didn’t go lookin’ for trouble.
-laughter-
Ummm….
My-my daughter—you girls go to Saint Johns School?
Yeah.
Yeah.
See this is a picture of my daughter when she went to Saint Johns School.
-laughs-
Really??
Oh wow –laughs-.
She was there—let’s see—She’s now fifty-six years old…she went—
She went to Saint Johns??
Yeah, she went to Saint Johns.
OH WOOOW.
Yes, both my daughters did.
Ohh cool.
So they know Puerto Rico than I am!
Ohh yeah! They were raised in Puerto Rico! Born! They were born in Puerto Rico.
Umm, soo,--
Did you make any good friends, or any acquaintances or someone you remember specifically during the time?
Ohh. Ehh, when you’re on a PT boat, you have a crew. A crew of men. And there were two officers and ten men on that boat, and they became family. You knew them very very well, and that’s an interesting question because, you see this? That picture up there. That’s my crew.you also see under the 1-15 a picture of a goat. Well, that’s the goat. –points at the goat- That’s the only thing we saved from the boat.
Oh wow…
If you look carefully you’ll see writing on that goat
Yeah
That’s all the members of the crew. All the names.
Oh wow.
They all survived?
They all survived.
-sounds of astonishment and praise-
So you’re a great commander, a great captain.
Heh, we’re all lucky. That’s it. We’re all lucky, yeah.
And did you ever lose anybody, under your command?
Not directly, no.
Okay.
But when we go on patrol we go on another boat and uhh and when we go on patrol we lose someone on the other boats. But uhh, that’s a chance we take.
Is it like really hard for you to talk about the war or does it come really simply?
Well, most of it I don’t mind talking about, I like to talk about it, uhhh there’s a few little things I don’t like to talk about -- some of my friends would die of malaria, there was some unfortunate things, you can’t forget them but—
-Father interrupts-
You can tell that he is one of the proud veterans
Yeah
He is proud of what he did—he served well
At the time, when you were serving –cough- excuse me, did you believe that the war was really necessary?
Did I think it was necessary? Oh, at that time because remember, we were attacked which wasn’t like Afghanistan or Iraq. We were attacked, physically attacked, and remember, we did not go into World War 2 until we were attacked. That war was going on for two years in Europe. Uhhh between the Germans and the French and the English, uhh but it took the attack of Pearl Harbor for us to enter the war—Yes I was very – that’s why I volunteered, I was very supportive of the war.
So you were proud to serve?
Oh yes, oh yes—to stabilize the world—I was very proud to serve
Uhh do you think you have any memorable memories, coming from serving at the war, any distinct—
Well, yeah, I have all my memories I-I have a lot of them
But something more distinctive
Yeah like something more distinctive? Like something to brag about or to--
Not just to brag about, but it really like, it stuck with him, and he’ll like always remember it for--
Well, there are so many things I think about, for instance, uhh when we—we call these things fire fights when we get into a fight like that –points at picture of a fire fight- , those are always memorable because you are scared to death while you are in a fire fight, so you never forget those, but there are so many. Oh, I remember the day when we would uh have leisure and uh we’d take the boat out and we’d anchor, over a reef, by a reef, so the men could just go swimming, and we’d swim without any clothes because there was nobody around and there was always a lot of sharks
-gasp/laugh-
Hammerhead sharks, you know the ones with the –uses hands to show how hammer head shark looks like-
Oh yeah!
And we would have to put a-a person on the fifty caliber, up there –points at spot on picture where gun is- to watch for the sharks coming in and if they saw a shark, they would fire a blast,
Wow
But they wouldn’t really kill the shark, but they’d scare them away, but anyway those are just—
-phone rings-
Im so sorry
Soo..
You have another question Emily?
No, I think you answered all our questions.
Weren’t you glad to meet somebody like this?
Yeah.
I feel really honored.
Well thank you.
Thank you, Don Jim.
Thank you for coming in.
-rambling thank-you’s-
Thank you for letting us come to the office
Yeah my pleasure!
So you girls write it up good!
They will, they will!
Historical Context Essay
By: Manuel de Juan
World war two lasted from 1939 to 1945. The battle fronts were the Pacific and the European front. The Pacific front started and “ended” with the surprise attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in the morning of December 7, 1941. The Japanese attempted to completely eradicate the naval fleet in Pearl Harbor to prevent the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya; to buy time for Japan to consolidate its position and increase its naval strength, and it was meant to deliver a severe blow to American morale. The opposite happened with the third wave the American morale dropped because of the shocking news, but it convinced that America should push back and much harder. The Japanese used the advantage of the damaged U.S naval fleet in Pearl Harbor to attack Hong Kong, British Malaya, and the Philippines. Then after the Japanese peak of power in 1942, backed by the industrial might and vast raw material resources the U.S started attack the Japanese empire back into what is now Japan. The U.S fought many battle such as the Battle of Coral Sea and the battle of Midway that pushed the Japanese empire into what is now Japan. Morotai's southern plain was taken by American forces in September 1944 during the Battle of Morotai, and used as a staging point for Allied invasion. In early 1945 the US had wrested control of the Ogasawara Islands, marking the beginning of the fall of the islands of Japan. In the end, it all ended with two atomic bombs which fell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which the Japanese responded by surrendering.
By: Manuel de Juan
World war two lasted from 1939 to 1945. The battle fronts were the Pacific and the European front. The Pacific front started and “ended” with the surprise attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in the morning of December 7, 1941. The Japanese attempted to completely eradicate the naval fleet in Pearl Harbor to prevent the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya; to buy time for Japan to consolidate its position and increase its naval strength, and it was meant to deliver a severe blow to American morale. The opposite happened with the third wave the American morale dropped because of the shocking news, but it convinced that America should push back and much harder. The Japanese used the advantage of the damaged U.S naval fleet in Pearl Harbor to attack Hong Kong, British Malaya, and the Philippines. Then after the Japanese peak of power in 1942, backed by the industrial might and vast raw material resources the U.S started attack the Japanese empire back into what is now Japan. The U.S fought many battle such as the Battle of Coral Sea and the battle of Midway that pushed the Japanese empire into what is now Japan. Morotai's southern plain was taken by American forces in September 1944 during the Battle of Morotai, and used as a staging point for Allied invasion. In early 1945 the US had wrested control of the Ogasawara Islands, marking the beginning of the fall of the islands of Japan. In the end, it all ended with two atomic bombs which fell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which the Japanese responded by surrendering.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Biography of James Teale
Biography of War Veteran: James Teale
James Teale was born June 1922. He was born in a little town called Elyria, Ohio, but raised in mostly Minnesota. When he started college, he went to officer school and they let him stay in college for a couple years, then he enrolled in the Navy, on December 7, 1941. He was the minor capitan of a PT boat. He earned 2 Battle Stars, which are stars that you earn when you fight in a memorable battle. He was in the invasion of morotai, and Invasion of Lackey. James Teale was in the navy for four years and was fighting in the war for 3 years. James Teale is now the successful founder and partner of Plaza Cellars as well as many other businesses. His favorite hobby is to go fishing and is a "Catch and Release" sorta guy. He owns various homes around the US and is currently about to turn 88.
James Teale was born June 1922. He was born in a little town called Elyria, Ohio, but raised in mostly Minnesota. When he started college, he went to officer school and they let him stay in college for a couple years, then he enrolled in the Navy, on December 7, 1941. He was the minor capitan of a PT boat. He earned 2 Battle Stars, which are stars that you earn when you fight in a memorable battle. He was in the invasion of morotai, and Invasion of Lackey. James Teale was in the navy for four years and was fighting in the war for 3 years. James Teale is now the successful founder and partner of Plaza Cellars as well as many other businesses. His favorite hobby is to go fishing and is a "Catch and Release" sorta guy. He owns various homes around the US and is currently about to turn 88.
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