On April 23, 1980, the men took off in a high altitude plane from Langley, VA, but as they neared their jump point on April 24th, their pilot received a recall order stating Operation Eagle Claw was aborted and to return to base. So, the airplane with the men still aboard returned immediately to Langley, and they returned home to Montana with the hostages still in Iran. But, it wasn’t until April 26th while watching the evening news; they realized why the CIA canceled their mission because as the broadcast continued they discovered an RH-53 helicopter struck the vertical stabilizer of an EC-130’s with its main rotor and crashed into the plane’s wing and the ensuing explosion killed eight servicemen. As soldiers and proud citizens of the United…
The plan for operation Sea Lion started when Hitler’s occupation of Paris made him look ahead and set his eyes on the invasion of Britain. “Nazi Germany had already conquered Poland, Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France. In the latter part of 1940, Britain was the only nation still trying to stop the advancing Germans.” Operation Sea Lion was the plan for invading Britain through the English Channel.…
The historical non-fiction book D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II explains the planning and execution of D-Day. Ambrose used the stories of soldiers who witnessed it all to tell the account of D-Day. D-day was the allied invasion of German-occupied France, the allies invaded France to open up a second front in the war. By opening a second front this would relive pressure on the Soviet Union in the Western front.…
Operation Red Wings, also referred to as Operation Red Wing or OP Redwing, was planned and rehearsed as a small reconnaissance mission consisting of four Navy Special Warfare Operators (SEALS) in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan in late June, 2005. Lt. Michael Murphy, Petty Officer 2nd Class Danny Dietz, Sonar Technician 2nd Class Matthew Axelson, and Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Marcus Luttrell were the four team members assigned to this mission, with Murph being the ranking officer, and Luttrell assigned as team lead. What transpired in less than 24 hours was the largest death toll to Naval Special Warfare Soldiers since World War II. LT. Michael Murphy, with whom I had the pleasure of knowing personally, was the Officer in Charge of the…
Operation Barbarossa On June 22 1941 Russian troops heard rumbling in the distance within a few hours millions of Russian troops were on the run the biggest operation in World War 2 had just been launched. These words paint a clear picture of Operation Barbarossa. According to Historian Sid Moody theses words are as true as could be. Moody states that the lives lost were completely unnecessary to the Operation causing millions of deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Operation Barbarossa is one of the many massive code named battles during World War 2.…
Cooperation between the British and American armies was not as effective as it could have been. One of the problems was that on several occasions the generals from the two countries were more focused on outdoing each other than defeating the Germans. A good example of this is Operation Husky which involved the invasion of Sicily. Even before the operation took place there was tension over it. The Americans were growing increasingly impatient to launch an invasion of Northern France and felt that “they had been ‘led up the Mediterranean garden path’ by the British.”…
Assess the significance of allied strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War Introduction: The significance of allied strategic bombing was variable throughout the war. Bombing was made more significant due to late technological advancements, which meant that the impact on the morale was affected more. Bombing had a significant impact on the economy and the military, both which are linked, due to the change of tactics that were implemented. Due to the decline in the economy, military production also slowed having an effect on the war and increasing the consequences of allied bombing.…
Ilana Steinmetz Historiography Paper Mr. Deutsch When did the Nazis decide to commit genocide against the Jews and what influenced their decision? Hitler’s Nazi regime exterminated 6,000,000 Jews with unending effort until the close of the war. The execution of this mass murder required enormous manpower and large bureaucracies. However, was the idea of the Final Solution always envisioned? A major debate amongst historians was raised.…
Throughout his campaign Hitler exploited the shame brought to the German people by their defeat in World War I by alleging that the Jews had betrayed the country during the war and promised to exact revenge. However, as opposed to modern misconceptions, the mass killing of Jews wasn’t the main goal of the party during their rise and first few years in power. Instead the Nazis began instituting a gradual system of restricting the rights of Jews that was a form of improvisation, with higher up members of the party debating how to ultimately purge German territory of “undesirables”. For the initial part of the “Jewish Question” the priority was concentrating Jews into certain areas to be able to monitor and control them better. This is illustrated in “Instructions by Heydrich on Policy and Operations Concerning Jews in the Occupied Territories”, “For the time being, the first prerequisite for the final aim is the concentration of the Jews from the countryside into larger cities” (Arad).…
By 1941, the “Final Solution” had begun; this consisted of four mobile killing groups that went into every town and gathered all the Jews, stripped them of everything, lined them up, and shot them with automatic weapons. 30,000-35,000 Jews were killed in two days. Eventually the German government had a meeting and decided to initiate a system of mass murdering of the Jews. Immediately after the meeting, the plan of full scale, comprehensive extermination operation of the Jews began.…
Hatred causes wars. Hatred causes death. Hatred could explode when kept to oneself. Hatred is a critical factor of evilness in a human being, but everyone possesses some of it. The hatred felt in the heart of Adolf Hitler towards the Jewish faith was the main cause of the Jewish Holocaust.…
Events that Prove the Validity of the Holocaust Throughout the 1940s, Nazi Germany was capturing the Jewish population from all over Eastern Europe. Concentration camps were a major cause of death during the Holocaust. This topic is important for the general public to be educated about because it will help promote worldwide education. Without the world knowing the consequences of dehumanization and genocide, history will only repeat itself.…
In a hectic world, people of society look for things they can control to feel secure. Through control over one’s surroundings and peers, they can feel powerful. However, power can often go to one’s head if they are not responsible with it. An example of such is Reinhard Heydrich who played the role of a perpetrator in the Holocaust due to his influence and leadership positions pertaining to the Nazi Party, Final Solution, and Czechoslovakia. Reinhard Heydrich was a perpetrator of the Holocaust, because he took advantage of his authoritative positions in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), Gestapo, and Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) when he united them to strengthen the Nazi Party.…
The Holocaust is a very emotional topic for some people to discuss because of the number of Jews that were killed during World War 2 by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Since before Hitler rose to power, he had a dislike towards Jews. After he rose to power he made this dislike more well known in the country of Germany. According to Hitler, Jews were an inferior race and a threat to the German communities and the racial purity. The Holocaust is also known as Hitler’s final solution to solving issues of Jewish inferiority.…
Holocaust Ghettos Ghetto - A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships (Dictionary.com). Ghettos were just one of the things that made the Holocaust miserable for Jews. They were very important to the Nazis during the Holocaust. They helped them in many ways, and the Nazis probably couldn’t have succeeded; well, partly succeeded; without them. Discussing how and why they were created, the different types of ghettos, the ghetto leaders, and even the life people lived in the ghetto, are all important topics to discuss about ghettos .…