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    “The Origins of Commitment” by Deborah Larson is an article looking into the Berlin Blockade, The U.S Airlift, and the reason why the U.S, specifically Harry Truman decided to stay in West Berlin. The main argument or ideas of Larson’s article, are that many people believed that after the Soviet Blockade the U.S would no longer stay in West Berlin, due to West Berlin’s recently established government. Also, Larson claims that the U.S was hesitant to stay in West Berlin as a result of the Soviets…

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    Ball Turret Gunner Essay

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    (There are 3 messages to “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” The Reason for the ball turret, young people are the victims, no neutral thought.) The ball turret gunner is one of the most important gunner, that was on a bomber. The bomber was a big jumbo like plane. That was able to carry stuff and drop bombs on its targets. The biggest problem with these type of planes are that they are too big and too slow. Which made it easier for the enemy fighter jets to take them down. The germans came…

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    States entered the war in 1917. Trench and chemical warfare was at their peek. A mere two years after the Wright brothers flew at Kittyhawk, the first war to involve the airplane was in swing. Aviators dropping grenades from planes, bomber pilots before bomber planes. Troops on all sides dug trenches, in what would become their home for the following hours, home was where the shovel lay. These veterans 13 and older were the first veterans to lose the glamour of war. They were the first…

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    Polina Gelman Essay

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    Sometimes, the best of heroes do not always fight on the ground. One of these heroes was Polina Gelman, a pilot in the all-female 588th regiment of the Soviet Union Night-Bombers, more commonly known as the Night Witches. She received the highest honors during WWI, a Gold Star of a Hero of the USSR for acting courageously. Her service helped lead Germany to its demise. Gelman was born to a Jewish family in the Ukrainian town of Berdichev in 1919. Her father was killed in the Russian Civil War.…

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    Al Qaida Research Paper

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    In some cases suicide bombers have been used without the suicide bomber being aware of their impending death. In Iraq a man was hired to drive a commercial truck transporting goods, upon arrival of the predetermined destination the truck exploded throwing the driver out of the front window of the truck and somehow survived. The man was arrested and imprisoned until it was determined he had no prior connections to Al-Qaida. Many of Al-Qaida’s suicide bombers willingly go to their deaths…

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    the destruction of anti-aircraft guns and airfields during the landings. The aircraft was equipped with incendiary bombs for these purposes. The Wildcat acted as a dive bomber to provide increased accuracy for the bombs (Wardell). With the Wildcats destroying anti-aircraft guns and Axis controlled airports the 12th Air Force bomber could…

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    was this ideology that suicide bombers emerged from people with political motives, and these motives can be a combination of religious fundamentalism resulting from an extreme indoctrination or psychological predisposition that might drive individuals to have a tendency to inflict harm on others, and to finally reclaim major territorial space the bombers sees as their homeland. Even though pape made mention of some indisputable facts about the harm suicide bombers causes to others and…

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    Introduction Ten years ago, four suicide bombers with rucksacks full of explosives attacked central London, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds more. The bombings left three different London underground trains in ruins. This was the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil. The attack cost England dearly economically. It also changed many lives, both Muslims and none Muslim lives. Main part On 7 July 2005, a huge incident happened in London. London bombings (often referred to as 7/7)…

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    The P-51 was a war-changing weapon and a blessing to the allied bombers over Germany. World War II started in 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland. Just like the war before it, there were many different kinds of warfare. For example, air combat, naval combat, land combat, and infantry combat were the main kinds of combat. The U.S was supplying resources to countries already in the war, the U.S did not start fighting until the Attack on Pearl Harbor on the early morning of December 7, 1941, by the…

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    became deputy group commander. He flew the lead plane in the first American daylight heavy bomber mission against Occupied Europe on 17 August 1942, and the first American raid of more than 100 bombers in Europe on 9 October 1942. Tibbets was chosen to fly Major General Mark W. Clark and Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Gibraltar. After flying 43 combat missions, he became the assistant for bomber operations on the staff of the Twelfth Air Force.…

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