Posts Tagged ‘world war ii’

Pearl Harbor day

During the second world war Japan wanted to extened their empire and the Us wanted to stay neutral in the conflict, it all ended on the 7th of December 1940 when Japan attacked USA at Pearl Harbor.

It was a peacefull Sunday morning, 7 December 1941, the U.S. Pacific Fleet crews still in their beds and sleeping on the naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, when their sleep is beeing interrupted by the numerous explosions.

Several waves of Japanese airplanes has descended upon the camp and released their bombs and torpedos and turns the site to a graveyard in just a few hours.

Over 2,500 Americans lost their lifes in the attack, which was meant to prevent US to interfeer in Japans plans to conquer an empire in Asia.

The battle lasted for over three years but the Japanese soon found themself in trouble since they had underestimated their opponent.

Disapering history : Ancient Pompeii structures collapses

Now another structure has collapsed in Pompeii which has started to raise fears about the state of the ancient Roman town that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79.

Its a 25-foot long garden wall which was surrounding one of the citys best known houses, the house of the Moralist that have collapsed.

The building lies along the Via dell’Abbondanza, some 65 feet from the ruins of the frescoed House of Gladiators, which fall down in to a pile of rubble earlier this year.

The wall was completely reconstructed after a World War II bombing destroyed the original structure.

says the superintendency of Pompeii, and continues

Luckly, no major damage seems to have occurred to the house of the Moralist

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