Battleship

fights. They were a vital part of the weaponry during WWII because of their ability to sink battleships, aircraft carriers, and cargo ships. During WWII, submarines sank around 5 million tons of battleships in all. They were able to do this because of their ability to quickly move around the slower battleships. Also, they were mostly underwater and hard to spot. Both US and Japan lost a lot of battleships to each other…

designs from the Carthaginians when they stumbled upon one of their ship wrecks. 2. Which civilization(s) did your subject come from? The ide of a battleship originated and was implemented first by the Egyptians. However, in terms of the Romans they got the idea from the Carthaginians. 3. What are the dates of the civilization…

surrounding land being the United States Navy deep-water naval base and headquarters for the United States Pacific Fleet made the attack easy because all the battleships were docked together at the same harbour. Japan attacked the United States because they drastically reduced their ongoing oil…

three aircraft carriers, Enterprise, Lexington and Saratoga, were all at sea at the time. The following day, Franklin D. Roosevelt and united US Congress declared war on Japan. Almost half of the casualties at Pearl Harbor occurred on the naval battleship, USS Arizona, which was hit four times by Japanese bombers. Japan lost 29 of their aircrafts in the December 7 attack, compared with the 2,403 U.S. soldiers who died. No Japanese remains have been found at…

On December 7, 1941, 2,403 lives were lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor. ‘’2,008 naval men, 109 Marines, 218 army men., and 68 civilians also lost their lives that day, which isn’t concluding the Japanese deaths’’(visitpearlharbor.org). ‘’Wounded came to 1,143 with 710 navy, 69 marines, and 364 army men, as well as 103 civilians. Also along with a total of 55 Japanese men’’(pearlharbormemorial.com). ‘’1,177 were from the USS Arizona and were on board or in the water when they…

1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland but the Allied nations issued an ultimatum that Germany must remove her troops under the threat of war. Germany did not give in to the Allied ultimatum and invaded Poland but Britain and France guaranteed Poland, independence and were going to defend her so on the 3rd of September 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany and that was the start of World War II. World War II was fought by two alliances of countries, which was the Axis Powers,…

times are bound to have dissimilar effects of their audiences. Despite being made forty years apart, Pigs and Battleships (Imamura, 1961) and Y Tu Mamá También (Cuarón, 2001) both deal with similar subject matter. The political turmoil in their respective countries at the time of production are depicted in very different ways, and even in surprisingly different genres. Pigs and Battleships uses the lower class world in Japan to show what life was like for the people having to live in Japan…

The USS Maine was the first massive battleship to join the US navy fleet. It weighed more than 6,000 tons and cost more than $4 million to build. In a friendly manner, it was sent to Cuba to protect American concerns about US citizens and US interests. Later on, a fight between the Americans and Spanish broke out, beginning in Havana, in January 1898. “An explosion sunk the ship killing 260 Americans on board the vessel. A U.S naval court ruled that the sinking of the ship was caused by a sea…

class of Battleships arrived; fast battleships. These were very fast and also very powerful, example being the famous German Bismarck class. In 1938 USA, Britain and France invoked an escalator clause in the Second London Treaty to build ships around 45,000 tons. (Guðmundur Helgason) At the time nations has already started to build ships of around 35,000 tons, resulting in the US North Carolina and South Dakota ships, the 4 British King George V and French Richelieu ships. The Battleships during…

On December 7, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. There were three-hundred fifty-three Japanese planes. Japan’s attack was a surprise. The Japanese’s main target where the aircraft carriers, but they were not at base. They only attacked the ships and planes, but left places like oil storages unharmed. They also attacked on Sunday because they thought it would be a relaxed and less alert day. They were correct. It happened that the facilities at Pearl Harbor were undefended before and during the…