Title: Pearl Harbor Day - America
Author: threepinkdoors
AN: This is for Pearl Harbor Day, December 7th, 1941
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Bombs were bursting everywhere. Everyone was confused, and citizens were running around, frantically trying to escape the danger. Japanese bombers flew overhead, dropping tons of explosives from their carriers. Dirt and debris flew everywhere as the once beautiful island of Hawaii was scarred with the effects of war.
No one ever imagined the war would reach American soil.
America grabbed his rifle and ran for cover, aiming to shoot down any Japanese pilot he could get a target on. He was a straight shooter, but downing an airplane was a tough task for any one man.
He had never felt so helpless.
In previous wars, he was the one to invade foreign countries. Bombs were dropped on others, not him. With every strike, he could feel a piece of him dying away. This time it was so different; he had never felt the true pain of war until that day. The Great War was never fought on American soil, even if it tried. The Civil War made him almost lose his mind. The Revolutionary War made him almost lose his heart. But this war was delivering direct blows to his being. Wave after wave of Japanese planes nose-dived through the island, dropping death bombs all around him, damaging his mentality and his morale.
And that was something he would never forget.
The morning after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese Kamikaze, President Roosevelt gave his Infamy speech and within the hour, Congress voted to declare war on the Empire of Japan, entering the United States of America as an Allied Power against the Axis Powers that were tormenting Europe and Asia. "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United states of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." A few short years later, on August 6, 1945, the atom bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, the atom bomb "Fat Man" was dropped over Nagasaki. Six days after the bombings, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies and signed the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, Officially ending World War II. These were the only times in history that an atomic weapon was used in warfare.