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    Knuckle Knife with Scabbard Description This silver knife is made of steel. It has a handle that has four holes for the fingers. The blade is sharp on both side and meets at a point. The brown, leather scabbard with a security strap to securely hold the knife in place, has two cuts so the owner can attach the blade to a belt. There are no marks that shows who made these two artefact, but it has ‘93-2214’ engraved in black ink on it. Purpose and Use (197) These types of knuckle knives were…

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    Flying Tigers In this essay I am going talk about what were Flying Tigers. I will talk about there disbanded date and who made up this group. What were same of the missions of the Flying Tigers. All of this information take about how the Flying tigers started, and how the Flying Tigers end. So all this information will be included in this essay. So just set back and relax and just read this essay. The Flying Tigers are a volunteer group (AVG). A unit of american fighter pilots during World War 2…

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    The purpose of this paper is to identify how the British Admiralty’s COMINT failures during the Battle of Jutland prevented them from destroying the German High Seas Fleet. The battle is re-imagined with a much better-trained and coordinated intelligence section. The British Admiralty’s intelligence failures prevented Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s Grand Fleet from winning a decisive victory against Scheer’s High Seas Fleet. Because the Admiralty’s COMINT section did not maintain control over their…

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    Hacksaw Ridge Facts

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    during World War II . Okinawa is a big island by Japan that had underground tunnels and trenches so the Japanese soldiers could get around so they could sneak up on the American soldiers. America wanted control over Japan because they bombed Pearl Harbor. f America got control of Hacksaw Ridge it might change the tide of the war and it might make Japan stop helping the Nazi’s with suplies and recources. America wanted Japan to sign a peace treaty before the battle for hacksaw ridge started.…

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    Source C and Source D contain several similarities. For example, Source C states “[Japan] must continue to study and make use of Western methods” while Source D explains that “Japan had learned to emulate the West”. Both utilize remarks on the nation’s implementations of Western ideas as ways to improve their military strength. Furthermore, both Source C and Source D indicate the West’s disregard for Japan’s strength and their intentions to take advantage of this. Source C implies that “the…

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    The first modern Olympic which have been cancelled is in 1916, Berlin Olympics. This Olympic has been cancelled because of WWⅠ that started in 1914 and ended in 1918. At the first, Olympic organization had been prepared for the games even after the war had outbroken because nobody could guess that the war had continued so long. The game venue had been constructed 1912 to 1913, but the game was cancelled in the end. Tokyo Olympic in 1940 was also cancelled due to the influence of another war,…

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    The Grand Alliance

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    This embargo blocked the sale of scrape Iron, Aviation Oil and Oil. Japan therefore responded by retaliating with plans to attack USA. In 1942-1943, there was the time that is termed as the turning point of ar. This is marked by the grand Alliance. The Grand Alliance was composed of the USA, Great Britain, USSR who were termed as the Big Three. The war in Asia was witnesses…

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    To begin with, the way China and Japan responded to the West’s increasing pressure to open to trade was very diverse. In the 19th century, after a long period of seclusion, China and then Japan was pressured from the West to open to foreign trade and relations. The Industrial Revolution in Europe had fashioned a vast gap between Japan, China, and the West, consequently, leaving the two Asian nations falling behind in military brute force strength as well as technological advancements. During…

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    General Hideki Tojo was born in Tokyo, in the Kōjimachi district on December 30, 1884. He was the eldest son of a samurai descent. In 1899, Tojo entered a military school to follow his father’s footsteps of a Japanese military man. In 1909, he married a woman, Katsuko Ito. Together they had three sons and four daughters. Tojo graduated in 1915 with honors, then he went to Europe and studied there for three years. In 1922, when Tojo had returned, he became an instructor at a war college for…

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    USS Cole Bombing

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    one step above the lowest condition. Intelligence reports at that time indicated a significant threat to U.S. interests however there were no specific threat streams to indicate an imminent attack in Aden. The ships small boat typically used for force protection was not being utilized at the time of the attack. Rules of Engagement (ROE) were restrictive in nature limiting self-defense measures. Those members assigned to force protection watches were either not provided ammunition, limited…

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