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On December 7th, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor (Prados, 2009). This attack on the United States was devastating and to this day many American’s still recognize and remember the loss and fury we experienced due to this attack some 70 years ago. The next day following the attack the United States entered WWII declaring war on Japan (Prados, 2009). Six months after declaring war on Japan, Americans fought in one of the most decisive naval…

Blue Men”, is a story about a woman who struggles to face and accept her past while trying not to let it consume her. May, our main character, her son has been executed for the murder of a deputy and his drug dog, and is left to care for his son, Bomber. May is all alone, aside from her grandson, and these photos and postcards she carries with her in her purse. She is gradually becoming unseen to everyone around her, even herself. One night, on her way home, her purse was stolen from her, but…

them applied different tactics, and decided to use bombers to strike supply lines and airfields behind enemy lines, maybe they would prevail in the battle, and ensured quicker victory. Finally, Russians put the air offensive concept into operational practice during the Orel and Kharkov battle. Striking the Germans supply lines and airfields Russians denied the Germans critical reinforcement capability. Russian effort in using its airpower and bombers in offensive mode of attack achieved the…

bombs on to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The plane that dropped these two bombs is the B-29 Superfortress. This plane was best suited at the time to carry and drop the atomic bombs because it had the best radar and navigation system out of all of the U.S. bomber planes. The B-29…

even better pilots, during which the bomber crews started to praise the pilots for how great of a job they were doing, unlike some of the white escort divisions which had followed Nazi pilots and had gotten many bomber crews killed. Unlike the units that had left the bombers, the Tuskegee Airman had always remembered to stay with the bombers and wait for the Nazi pilots to attack before engaging, which saved countless lives, and gave them great respect to the bomber pilots. During one mission in…

Sunday Mass was about to end. President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi said at the state funeral for the victims attended by hundreds of mourners that a suicide bomber carried out the attack. He identified the bomber as a 22-year-old man who wore an explosive vest which he detonated in the chapel. The Interior Ministry released a picture of the alleged suicide bomber. Sissi said that four other suspects in the attack have been arrested. A three days of mourning has been declared in the country. Coptic…

The B-17, “Flying Fortress”, is a U.S. built heavy bomber that was used in World War II. There were around 12,700 of these B-17 bomber planes that were produced. The B-17, “Flying Fortress”, was built by the Boeing Aircraft Company. The B-17, “Flying Fortress”, was built to aide the U.S. in World War II. The B-17, “Flying Fortress” specs were; a top speed of a whopping 287 MPH, a cruising speed of 182 MPH, it was about 19 feet and 1 inches tall and had a wingspan of 103 feet and 9 inches, a…

75 foot towers with transmitters and receivers and conducted tests. They found the wavelengths went out as far as 15 miles. If the towers were taller and spread out a certain distance, this system would be effective for early warning against Nazi bombers. In 1937, Radar warning sites were built 20 miles apart along the English coastline from Lands End to north of…

There was not a single incident of sabotage, spying, or treason, but the American government did this to keep the security threat as low as they possibly could. Finally, in December of 1944, the United States Supreme Court declared that the exclusion of a particular group could not detain citizens who think are loyal to the country. By early 1945, the government began to release any of the Japanese that were detained throughout the duration of the war. The Japanese were not the only group that…

World War II was a destructive and horrible war. Britain was the main target of the Germans at the beginning of the war. The Germans focused much of their air force at Britain. Air Warfare was an important tool they used to cripple Britain. London got attacked quite often in particular by German aircraft. London and its surrounding cities were targeted often to destroy Britain’s defenses and morale during the blitzkriegs. Blitz was taken from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning lightning war.…