Admiral

In the cold reaches of Norway sat the largest naval vessel of Nazi Germany’s war machine. It lie in wait for allied shipping convoys bound for Russia from Britain. The sister ship to the legendary Bismarck, the Tirpitz was a 52,600 ton thorn in the side of naval operations in the North. From January of 1942 until November of 1944 it was exactly that. All the while, Prime Minister Churchill was emphasizing the importance of removing the Tirpitz from the arctic battlefield. They even went as far…

It is hard to imagine a young woman who used to be an Australian Convict becoming one of the wealthiest women in Australia in the eighteenth century. Mary Reibey had quite an interesting journey to her success. Her voyage leaving England to Australia, becoming a servant and marrying a businesswoman really did impact Mary’s future. Her story started off as a young girl who was born on 12th May, 1777 in Bury, Lancashire England. When her parent died, Mary’s grandmother raised her and sent her off…

World War II: The Four Freedoms Because the United States had been supporting isolationism and were creating and supporting non-interventionist groups, such as the America First Committee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt it was time for a change in America's stance on the involvement of war. To do so, he delivered the Four Freedoms Speech on January 6, 1941. The Four Freedom Speech had been addressed to Congress in effort to move the nation away from the foreign policy of neutrality.…

more pervasive. Admiralty courts maintained the authority to try offenders for “all Treasons, Felonies, Robberies, Murthers and Confederacies hereafter to be committed in or upon the Sea, or in any other Haven, River, Creek or Place where the Admiral or Admirals have or pretend to have Power, Authority or Jursidiction…” This open-ended and vague language gave England’s High Admiralty jurisdiction to try any crime committed on water, through the issuing of special commissions, regardless of the…

John Steinbeck was a member of two intelligence organizations that were the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The director asked Steinbeck to write a work of propaganda against the Nazi aggression in Europe. As a result, Steinbeck wrote The Moon is Down. This book argued the need for people to stand up against the Nazi invaders and to not surrender and appease them. Many people throughout Europe were able to read this book including people who receive smuggled copies of this…

Interceptor but no Tie Bombers for some reason. “Captain Jevan, did our plan work?” They planned this? “Yes that’s the Grand Admiral's Star Destroyer,” the Ties stop firing, then a hologram of a woman aparted on the command deck. “This is Grand Admiral Aily of the Imperial Navy, If you surrender now and give up the two Jedi we will let you live. Refuse and we will board and kill you all,” her voice has emotionless and cold. “Thanks for the offer, but as captain of this ship I decline,” Jevan…

of the men on the field would have been of thetes class, the poorer citizens of the city. They would have typically only been armed with a bow, sling or javelins. The remaining six hundred nobles of the landowning class were primarily generals and admirals, with very few actually fighting on the…

It was Sunday, and children were running about with their mothers in tow, and the mailmen were relaxing in their homes because of their one, rare day off that had been gifted to them on that fine summer day in July. And there was a certain group of persons, wizened from old age that had a grasp on their colt 's tooth, (1) watching the youngins gallop and hunt after each other, 'round and 'round they went- like a lost puppy chasing its tail. And it was on this fateful Sunday morning that a…

surrender was unethical by dropping leaflets from places instead of using formal demands. Documents of atomic bomb survivors, including that of Yoshitaka Kawamoto, describe horrific sceneries of dead bodies and despair in a raw form (Document 4). Admiral Leahy also noted that the U.S. had “Adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages” (Document 12). Despite the clashing political and ethical views that arises from every national decision, it is irrefutable that the…

time for Japan to seize the resource areas it needed and fortify them to the point that retaking them would cost more lives than the imperial High Command thought Americans would be willing to pay. The whole Pearl Harbor attack plan was conceived by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who actually had studied in the United States, commander in chief of the IJN.…