1. Warm-Up – 10/15 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

2. Questions / Comments

3. Warm-Up – 10/15 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

4. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
The first bombing of Japan took place in April 1942.
It was highly successful.
Japan no longer felt safe from Allied attack.

5. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
16 B-25 bombers launched off the deck of the USS Hornet
Flew 800 miles to bomb:
Tokyo
Yokohama
Yokosuka
Kobe
Osaka
Nagoya
Not a single aircraft lost

6. Warm-Up – 10/15 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

7. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
The US had gone back to high-altitude, unescorted, daylight precision bombing and it didn’t work.
The air bases in the Mariana islands were over 1500 miles from Japan – well out of the range of fighters – capture of Iwo Jima was key – (750 miles away)

8. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
Another problem with high-altitude bombing in the Pacific
Winds at 30,000 ft were over 100 mph and cause bombs to go off course
The US then began low- level bombing at night.
This was much more successful.

9. Warm-Up – 10/15 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

10. The Pacific Campaign The Bombing of Japan
Iwo Jima – served two important roles:
Base for fighter escorts
Emergency landing field for B-29’s
By the end of the war over 2,200 B-29s made emergency landings in Iwo Jima

11. Warm-Up – 10/15 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

12. The Pacific Campaign Atom Bomb Forces Surrender
In July 1945, there were still over million Japanese soldiers fighting.
President Truman feared that hand-to-hand combat would cost hundreds of thousands of lives for both the Japanese and the Americans.

13. Warm-Up – 10/15 – 10 minutes
Utilizing your notes and past knowledge answer the following questions:
Describe the first bombing attack against Japan in April 1942.
Describe the US challenges with respect to high altitude bombing (hint: enemy and environment)
Describe the two reasons why the capture of Iwo Jima was important.
Describe the reason President Truman gave approval to drop the atomic bombs.
What was the date Japan surrendered that ended WWII? – known as V-J Day

14. The Pacific Campaign Atom Bomb Forces Surrender
On September 2, 1945, Japan officially surrendered.

15. Questions / Comments

16. THIS DAY IN AVIATION October 15
1783 — The first man to ascend in a tethered balloon is French scientist Jean Pilatre de Rozier.
His hot-air Montgolfier balloon ascends to 84 feet — the length of the rope holding the balloon.

17. THIS DAY IN AVIATION October 15
1913 — Lieutenant Ronin makes the first official airmail flight in France.

18. THIS DAY IN AVIATION October 15
1927 — Capt. Dieudonne lands in Brazil becoming the first person to fly non-stop across the South Atlantic.
The 2,100-mile flight takes just over 18 hours.

19. THIS DAY IN AVIATION October 15
1939 — New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia dedicates an airport in Flushing bearing his name.
La Guardia airport is the costliest to build at the time, $45 million

20. THIS DAY IN AVIATION October 15
1955 — Douglas A4D “Skyhawk” sets a new closed course world speed record of mph.

21. THIS DAY IN AVIATION October 15
1958 — The North American Aviation X-15 research aircraft is unveiled.

22. Questions / Comments

23. October 2015 Mighty 8th Museum Chapter 5 Quiz 4 5 Chapter 4
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY 4 5
Chapter 4
US Enters War
Pearl Harbor 6
European Campaign
North Africa 7
Theories of Early Air Power 8
D-Day
Chap 4 Quiz 9
Mighty 8th Museum 10 11 12
Pacific Campaign 13
Island Hopping 14
Doolittle Raid
Atomic Bomb
Chap 4 Test
1st Quarter Ends
Grades Due 15
Lessons Learned 16
FLIGHTLINE 17 18 19
Chapter 5
Military Developments
Separate Air Force
Wartime Advances 20
Jet Propulsion
“Vengeance Weapons”
Helicopters 21
Berlin Airlift
Korean War 22
Korean War 23
Chapter 5 Quiz
HALF-DAY SCHOOL 24 25 26
Commercial Aviation
General Aviation 27
Aviation R & D 28
Vietnam War
Phase 1 and 2 29
Phase 3 and 4 30
Chap 5 Quiz 31

24. Questions / Comments

25. Chapter 4 – Air Power Goes to War

26. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

27. Video of the Day
Top 15 WWII War Planes

28. Lessons Learned
The flexibility of air power and the importance of it were prominently displayed during WWII.
From the combined actions of the Blitzkrieg to the island hopping campaign in the Pacific and the eventual atomic bombing of Japan

29. Lessons Learned
The aircraft became the dominant weapon and the aircraft carrier became the primary naval weapon.

30. Lessons Learned U.S. learned how best to utilize air power
North African campaign taught Allies to centralize assets
Air superiority was the number priority of the air campaign

31. Lessons Learned American initial bombing doctrine did NOT work
New technology (Norden bombsight)
New tactics – escorted bombers
Helped gain air superiority in Europe

32. Lessons Learned
Pacific campaign taught U.S. that aircraft carriers and new tactics would turn the tide.
New bombs and tactics – multi- layered attack
High altitude to low altitude night bombing

33. Lessons Learned
WWII was won by the technological and wartime production capabilities of the U.S.
U.S. more than any other nation combined manpower and materiel into greatest manufacturing effort in history

34. Lessons Learned WWII taught the futility of war in modern society.
Twenty million people were killed and at least sixty million were injured or permanently disabled.

40. Questions / Comments

41. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

42. Lessons Learned
The flexibility of air power and the importance of it were prominently displayed during WWII.
From the combined actions of the Blitzkrieg to the island hopping campaign in the Pacific and the eventual atomic bombing of Japan

43. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

44. Lessons Learned American initial bombing doctrine did NOT work
New technology (Norden bombsight)
New tactics – escorted bombers
Helped gain air superiority in Europe

45. Today’s Mission Requirements
Identify in writing air power’s role in the war.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the European Air Campaign.
Describe in writing the lessons learned in the Pacific Air Campaign.
EQ:
What were some of the aviation developments during the 5 year period of WWII that influenced the Aviation Industry for years to come?

46. Lessons Learned
Pacific campaign taught U.S. that aircraft carriers and new tactics would turn the tide.
New bombs and tactics – multi- layered attack
High altitude to low altitude night bombing

47. Questions / Comments

48. Lesson Closure - 3 – 2 - 1
2. List 2 things you have questions about today’s lesson.
3. List 3 things you learned today.
1. Create (1) quiz question with answer about today’s lesson.

49. Questions / Comments

50. SAFETY FIRST.
SAFETY ALWAYS.

51. Safety Rules – Safety Monitor Brief
Must Use Safety Glasses
Use of Cutting tools is Dangerous – AT ALL TIMES – knives only out when cutting
Must Use Cutting Mats
All Areas will remain clean and organized
Plane Captains will insure All Areas will be cleaned and all items put back in proper locations 10 minutes prior to class ending
Class safety monitor will insure areas are clean and safe at all times

52. SAFETY FIRST.
SAFETY ALWAYS.

53. Questions / Comments