Wednesday, January 23, 2008

World War 2

One of the days, Miss Sim shared with us a book about World War 2. During the war, the Japanese attacked Singapore and Singapore lost to the Japanese in a week which is 7 days. At that time, Japanese planes which were the Zero fighter planes were much faster then British warplanes. There were also two warships in the Naval Base in Singapore which were The Repulse and The Prince of Wales but they were destroyed by the Japanese. One of the reasons Singapore lost to Japan was because Japan was much bigger than Singapore.

It was a sad story but after the battle , the Japanese had to pay the price, in 1945, the Americans captured two Japanese islands Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Then USA bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On 15 August 1945, the Japanese surrendered to the Allied Forces at the end of World War 2. The POWs (prisoners or war) in Singapore had finally ended but there is still one question that cannot be answered but only in the future ' will there be any World War 3? '

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