Reaction Paper About Ocima Iwominso

07:25 hours. It was cold. It normally was that high in the sky. Ocima Iwominso was a Japanese pilot of a torpedo bomber in 1941. He flew in formation with many other planes. They all knew their target a military base on a small Pacific chain in the middle of the ocean.Ocima knew he only had one order, aim for the ships. They wanted to cripple the fleet of the country that controlled this island. He looked at the clock in his plane, the time was 07:55. They were only a few minutes away from the target. He looks down at a picture of his family. He was from Saka, a small suburb of Hiroshima Japan. He has 3 children his sons Imaria and Sunsu and his daughter Omercima along with his wife Icimirma. He then heard his commander on the radio. He said to his men “3 kilometers” and closing until target. He looked up and saw it. Sitting high on top of one of the ships. It was big, it was the flag of America, the stars and stripes. This was his target, that ship, the one that has the biggest flag. His commander said “ ascend to attack altitude”. They ascended to the correct height. They then started the attack on the base known as Pearl Harbour. they all hit their targets, Ocima then saw his target, the USS Arizona, they were taught never to drop the torpedos by diving because they might miss, but he had no choice so he took the shot and landed it perfectly right through the ship 's hull. He didn 't know it at the time but his torpedo landed in the ship 's armoury and ammunition storage. He came up from his dive and started to make his way back from the attack to his aircraft carrier Hiryu. His aircraft carrier was involved in another attack six months later at midway island just west of pearl harbour. Ocima Iwomina died in this battle, his plane never left the ship. His carrier and 3 others were sunk in the battle. 3 years after the attack on midway the U.S drop a weapon that they stated “would end the war” it was call the Manhattan project,the weapon was fat man. They dropped it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ocima’s family did not make it from this bombing. Only his daughter Omercima made it out because she was just out side of the city with her friends when the bomb went off. They took cover in an old cement cellar. They were just out of range of the main blast. Because the japanese attacked us on december 7th 1941, they brought us into a war we were trying to stay out of. We retaliated to their attack by bombing tokyo and burning the town to the ground but the biggest blow we threw was what ended the war. On August 6, 1945 140,000 people died within minutes because Japan brought us into the war …show more content…
On december 7th 1941 they attacked the island base of Pearl Harbor crippling the U.S fleet. But most people don 't know that the Japanese actually had a land invasion. From june 3rd 1942 until august 15th 1943, the Japanese invaded the Aleutian islands in Alaska. This was because they wanted to put an air base on one of the islands. What they didn 't count on was the terrible weather that these islands had. There was absolutely no permanent inhabitants on these islands. The weather is some of the worst in the world, it 's cold, wet, and always windy. The Japanese were pushed back by the Americans one island at a time. The last island was the strongest defended. After the americans landed on the island the Japanese immediately started their attack. Thousands died within a short period of time. Soon the Americans went on the offensive, the went up into the treeless and barren landscape of the mountains. Soon they realized they were not being shot at. They then came upon a giant trench style base up high on the mountain. In it was many dead Japanese soldiers. Many had just frozen to death and others had committed suicide. It is a mystery what happened to the rest of them. Many historians theorized that they escaped on ships back to