1944

The United States is undoubtedly a very proud nation. Their successful war efforts are often broadcast and paraded and many of their victories have been exaggerated over time. However one fight that America can take credit for without amplification is the Second World War. The United States joined the Allied force officially in December of 1941 and after four years of fighting the Allies won. The United States led the Allied Forces to victory during the Second World War by their participation in…

Night is an autobiography written by Elie Weisel about his experiences that occurred during World War II. The novel follows Eliezer and his father through the treacherous hells of Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1944-1945. It explores the dehumanization process and atrocities committed by Nazi Germany to the Jews in Europe. This process of dehumanization reduced the Jews into nothing more than insignificant pests. The dehumanization process begins rather abruptly…

During the fifth year of the Second World War (1944), the Allied forces were planning the blueprints for the largest naval, air, and infantry invasion in the history of the world. This offensive was deemed the codename “Operation Overlord,” better known to the public as The Battle of Normandy. There were three major Allied countries involved in the invasion of D-day: The United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States of America. The invasion would begin with a heavy bombardment of German-held…

Third Reich. By 1944 the Americans were well and truly involved in the war and were coming at the Luftwaffe at full force. Göring’s reputation was diminishing with his men dying faster than being replenished. Allied wins in 1944 almost assured a certain victory in the not so distant future. The German people despised Göring, blaming him for the poor defence of their homeland. He was excluded from conferences and lost the trust of his Führer. This only increased when on D-Day, 6 June 1944,…

When the US entered World War II, It turned the tides of the entire war for the Allied Forces. After the bombing of Pearl Harbour, the Nazi forces and their allies were pushed back, and several countries and concentration camps were liberated almost immediately. Ohrdruf was the very first concentration camp that was liberated by the US. It wasn’t until then that the US realized exactly how bad things were for the jews. When soldiers liberated the camp, they were met with piles of bodies. Those…

interest in the history of the holocaust. So having the opportunity to read a book written by a holocaust survivor i didn't hesitate on taking the opportunity. This book is based in the years 1941 through 1945 during World War 2 in Poland and Hungary. In 1944 Elie and…

McColskey hard labor. The weak were quickly killed or died of starvation. People would be led into the gas chambers in large groups only to be killed with poison gas. The concentration camps were horrible places" ("World War Il: The Holocaust" 2). Before the Jews were taken to concentration camps, and after the Nazis had taken over a city, "most Jews were first concentrated in ghettos" (Lace 18). Ghettos were certain areas of a city where the Nazis forced the Jews to live. They provided very…

Medical support in the army air forces was essential in WW2. Inventions such as the G-suit countered the effects of physiological effects of G-forces that are experienced during high speed maneuvers.” From 1941 to 1943, most volunteer doctors in the AAF worked as aviation medical examiners, giving physical and mental examinations to candidates for skilled flying jobs as pilots, navigators, bombardiers, and aerial gunners” (Nanney,pg.7) ‘The first large scale aeromedical evacuation consisted of…

Vassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, writer, teacher, art theorist and the father of abstract art. Being a trained musician, he used music in his approach to color which he made sing from the canvas. A major turning point in his style of art came after he viewed Claude Monet’s “Haystack at Giverny” at a Moscow exhibition. Over the years he perfected his style of abstract art. He inspired other artists, wrote books on his theories, worked with museums, and ballet’s, experienced his work…

Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Germany, on March 23, 1912. Young von Braun took an interest in the science fiction of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but it wasn't until he read the writings of the father of German rocketry, Hermann Oberth, that he applied himself to physics and mathematics, subjects he had previously struggled with in school. He enrolled at the Berlin Institute of Technology, where he would go on to earn a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering. As a student, he…