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In Roald Dahl’s short story, Beware of the Dog, a pilot wakes up in a hospital in France. Prior to this, Peter Williamson, the pilot, gets shot down and hesitates asking for help because he is delirious. He then ejects from the plane going unconscious and waking up in the hospital, not remembering what had happened. A nurse then comes in and tells Peter that he is in Brighton, England and tells him how he got to the hospital. Not long after the nurse left she came back, but holding the door for…

mysterious disappearances that our history has to offer. The first mystery to discuss is the disappearance of Flight 19. Flight-19 is the codename for five Avenger bombers that took off from the naval base at Florida at 2:10 P.M. on December 5th,1945, but never returned.Flight-19 was a training flight with five TBM Avenger (torpedo bombers) led by one Commander Charles Taylor. These planes were three seaters, ahead of their time and very robust, safe and the U.S. Navy’s best way to sink enemy…

replacement contract value is $85 billion US dollars. The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit model will undergoing an upgrade to the service’s bat winged, nuclear capable bomber to be in the operation past 2050. It will be equipped with avionics computer processors and with digital nuclear weapons; the new radar warning receivers that will allow the bomber to receive messages in the event of the nuclear detonation. The value of the contract is $9.9 billion US dollars. The cost of the each B-2 is $2.2…

Admiral Stark and Major Wedemeyer shared similar views on the design question of how to change their environment from its existing state to their desired end state. They both strove for victory over totalitarian powers in Europe and the Pacific. Both men advocated an alliance with Great Britain and prosecution of an allied strategy to defeat the Axis powers. Stark envisioned a pursuing an allied strategy with Britain across multiple theaters. Wedemeyer initially planned for war in the…

Thesis Statement: Although Germany played a minor role in escalating the World War 1 by developing technologies that caused massive destruction and casualties, to a great extent, Germany should not be blamed for expanding the war because they had no intentions in involving others countries into the war as countries entered with their own motives and Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare was simply a precautious and a final attempt to attack the British naval blockade and stop its supplies…

On December 7, 1941, it will be a day that will always be remembered as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorated as “the date which will live in infamy”1. This was a day when the Japanese unexpectedly attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This was an attack that caused many American causalities, and American citizens really became furious. The hatred that filled the hearts of many Americans could be shown through President Roosevelt’s appeal to Congress to…

Tuskegee have highest rate of escorting bombers safely (“Tuskegee,” HistoryNet). The Air Force of today is very different from the Air Force of the mid 1900’s. Segregation was still a major factor. Racial separation required legislation to give people of color the opportunities for training as airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black aviators in the US military forces. Before then they were not allowed to fly in the military becuase of segregation in America. Black people were in the…

December 7, 1941 is a day that will forever live in infamy in the eyes of Americans. The attack was detrimental to the US Navy, leaving much of their equipment destroyed or damaged. Nearly two thousand five hundred military members were killed during the attack, provoking the United States entry into World War Two. A total of eighteen Navy ships were damaged beyond use and had to be sent into dry dock to be repaired. Although we seemed to be fighting an uphill battle, the US would not let a…

Survival Is A Must Despair, hope and the struggle to survive; he has endured all of these. A famous olympic athlete, he dedicated his life to running. That is, until the war, where he was forced to join the army to fight against Japan. His plane crashed and him with his friend survived, only to end up in the grasps of the enemy. Optimistic and resourceful, This is Louie Zamperini, from one of Lauren Hillenbrand’s best selling books, unbroken. First off, Louie is forgiving, “They’d be rescued…

attack was for battleships and ship facilities. At 8:10 am, 1,800-pound bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona, causing the battleship USS Arizona to explode. The Japanese planes were approaching from a direction very close to the bombers, and while the operators had never seen such a large formation on radar. In the first attack, thirteen of the forty torpedoes hit battleships, and four torpedoes…