The POWs in WWII

Here's a website I found about the American prisoners of war in Germany:http://www.b24.net/pow/default.html

The prisoners were shut in solitary cells which was about 2.5m x 3.5m x 2.5m big. Each prisoner had a cot, a table, a chair and an electric bell to call the guards. They weren't treated very nicely. Some of the prisoners were stripped, or even kept wearing the clothes when they had been caught. Sometimes, the POWs had to prove themselves as airmen rather than spies by telling some technical information about planes, or they would get killed. The POWs had two pieces of bread in the morning and two at night. None of the Red Cross parcels were given to them, but they could get free water from the guards. Many of the POWs didn't have enough care of health. Some of them had the same dirty bandage when they'd got caught. The POWs didn't have a nice time during the war or even after the war ended.

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Here is a website about Prisoner of War Medal:http://www.axpow.org/powmedal.htm



The POW Medal was given to the American soldiers who were taken prisoner and held captive.

The an American bald eagle stabding in the middle with pride dignity, surrounded by a barbed wire. It symbolized that the American prisoners seized the hope to regain their freedom.

The black stripe in the middle of the ribbon means the despair of being prisoned in the war. The two white stripes adjacent to the black one typify hope. And the thin blue, white, and red stripes represent America.

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A Japanese pilot dropped into the ocean from his crashed plane. The US soldier tried to pull him up onto the boat. Instead of being a prisoner and ashamed, he decided to end up his own life by a grenade. However, it seemed that the American soldier had shot the Japanese several times before he died.

Spies in WWII

Here a website of the OSS in WWII made by http://www.americainwwii.com/stories/cloak.html

It talks detailedly about how the OSS started and what they did during the time. At that time, all of Germany's enemies in Europe were eliminated except England. D. Roosevelt worried about the columnists and traitors inside Norway, Belgium, Holland, and France. Therefore, he dispatched Bill Donovan all around Europe to get information of their enemies and search people that could be their allies. The searching was very successful and helpful, but there was no central intelligence office in the US. They established the COI at first. It onlt lasted a for a year. Then it was substituted by the OSS because the information of the COI wasn't including the potential of Japan's Attack in Hawaii. Roosevelt called in some experts and appointed them to make a school for spies, and the OSS was for trainning spies.






This is a photo of Bill Donovan.






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Here is a website which has some videos about the spies in the OSS: http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/209.cfm

It shows what is the secret agents in the OSS like. Before a person started his training, they checked his body. A spy in the OSS needs a haircut of the style in the enemies' area. Furthermore, there were many required equipments of a secret agent in the OSS. For example, the stickers on his suitcase, a handful of cigarettes and train tickets, etc. They were very small and common things, just like a hidden uniform. It was really cool to be a secret agent in the OSS.

Pearl Harbor

Here is a site about how Japan attcked Pearl Harbor:http://www.pearlharbor.org/history-of-pearl-harbor.asp

It says about the Japanese's ambition to get mere territories. Japan invaded the southeast of Asia because of its lack of resources, which was caused by the US's embargo on steels and fuel sold to Japan. Japan started planning to declare war to the US. Japanese intended to attack Pearl Harbor because a bult of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which was the key of the war, were there. Japan invaded Pearl Harbor. They fulfilled their purpose of damage to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but they also killed or harmed about 3,500 people. Nonetheless, the invasion caused a critical situation to Japanese themselves because they didn't have enough fuel to fight with the US.

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Here is a site about Pearl Harbor was under attack:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm

There are many pictures in this website. Here's one of them.






This is an image of the tragedy in Pearl Harbor. The USS Shaw exploded. The US navy in Hawaii was harmed gravely. More thana thousand and five hundred people died in the raid.



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Here is a website which is full of videos about the raids in Pearl Harbor by Japan:http://www.pearlharbor.org/

Here is one of the videos:

On December 7, 1941, Japan invaded Pearl Harbor. The raids were saperated in two waves. A lot of Americans died and many aircrafts destroyed. After that, Americans got angry and attempted to avenge and warn Japan.