USS Indianapolis (CL/CA-35)

The Germans sunk the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, killing over a thousand innocent men, women, and children and injuring hundreds. The ship was not suppose to be carrying any weapons or ammunition, however, a

In 1941, the United States once again found itself involved in a war. The following year, Sachem was returned to the U.S. Navy for the second time. Being passed on to different owners, this ship encounters different names too. From Celt to USS Sachem, now under the name USS Phenakite, it was deployed to patrol the waters of Florida Keys.

While sailing on the Havana Harbor in Cuba, an unexpected explosion erupts sinking the 6,000 ton boat killing 260 men.

During World War I the U.S.S. Nemes patrolled the Florida coastline. In August 1917 it was sunk by a fire with no one killed but six burned.

search for justice for the USS Indianapolis. 880 men died and 317 survived the attack on the USS

Maine- A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard.

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about when the most massive, high in technology, indestructible ship sunk. The Titanic of course. Also when passenger and survivor Jack Thayer shared his journey, through his writing with author Lauren Tarshis. It makes the article more intriguing to use quotes because it makes you feel as if you are on the ship on that night.

A submarine that may be unfamiliar to you was called the Pioneer. It was later renamed the H.L Hunley. The most well known submarine during the American Civil War. This submarine belonged to the Confederate States of America. It played a small part in the American Civil War. The Hunley, nearly 4 high and 15ft wide ,was built in Mobile, Alabama and launched in July 1863. The Hunley sank the USS Housatonic on February 1864. The Pioneer or shall I say the H.L Hunley became the first ship ever to sink an enemy vessel during a war, but sadly the submarine itself sank along with all of the crew members. No survivors. What they did is they drilled a hole in the enemy vessel and put the dynamite into that hole and ignited the dynamite to blow a

America’s entry into WWII was created by a single attack by the japanese navy on pearl harbor in the hawaiian islands on December 7, 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the attack as “a date which will live in infamy”. Millions of people visit pearl harbor and the USS Arizona yearly. The attack of pearl harbor is known as one of America’s Most tragic events.Since President Roosevelt every US President has visited the memorial. As the US Arizona is no longer an active ship it is an active US Military cemetery. Many of the survivors visit every year to pay respects to the fallen soldiers and you can too.

With the new working bomb, during World War II American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb called the little boy weighing 9,000 pounds on Hiroshima, Japan instantly killing eighty-thousand people then killing over tens of thousands of people after due to radiation exposure. Three days later another bomb

Japanese pilots took to the skies with mounted machine guns on bomber planes and thousands of pounds of explosives, and bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. For example, they took off with fighter jets and bombers, killing 2,403 people and wounding 1,178. Under the cover of a storm, the Japanese flew in and dropped thousands of 500g bombs, hitting and sinking 18 United States ships, 6 of which were aircraft carriers. In addition, the attack was unwarned, and it killed thousands of soldiers and civilians, crushing the spirits of United States citizens. It destroyed the naval fleet in port at Pearl Harbor, which damaged the U.S severely. Unknown to many, they also bombed the U.S Air Force base in Hawaii, incapacitating 300 fighter jets and cargo planes. Furthermore, this unwarned attack was a cowardly act and dropping an atomic bomb was completely justified. The unwarned attack killed thousands of people, soldiers and citizens alike. Use of nuclear weapons as

December 7th, 1941, was the day 2,403 Americans lost their lives and 1,200 wounded during the Japanese air raid, on Pearl Harbor. On this day, the US Navy lost almost the entire Pacific Fleet in the harbor. After the attack, all the ships were either sunk or severally damaged minus the aircraft carriers. The aircraft carriers luckily were still at sea. The total number of military personnel killed was 2,335, including 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines, and 218 army. Added to this were 68 civilians, making the total 2403 people dead. 1,177 men alone were from the USS Arizona.

The United States dropped their first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion was tragic, “90 percent of the city was wiped out and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens and thousand more would later die to radiation exposure” (Lemay and Paul). Innocent children and citizens would die.

One of the factors that led to the United States’ entry into World War I, was the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. This is thought to be one of the

On the 6th November 1945, a United States bomber flies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The only cargo aboard that B-29 bomber was an atomic bomb waiting on its target. At 8.15am the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, taking 140,000 lives with it. Most of the 140,000 died instantly, horrifyingly the rest of the innocent civilians that were not in direct contact with the bomb died painful deaths in the four months following. They died from radiation sickness and different types of cancers.