Commanders of World War II

Casablanca is a movie set in December 1941 in Casablanca, Morocco before the United States was involved in World War II. The characters were fictional but the events display the role of Europe during this time frame. Casablanca was an important city as people wanted to escape Europe for America. Casablanca centers around Rick Blaine who owned the popular night club where refugees would purchase their letters of transit to travel freely in Europe and eventually freedom to America. The film…

I saw the 11/30 showing of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”. It was a play about two World War II veterans named Bob Wallace and Phil Davis who meet sisters Betty and Judy Haynes. The four go to rural Vermont where they run into Bob and Phil’s former commander in WWII, General Waverly, who owns an inn but is struggling financially. The four aim to help the General. The show was at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, a Proscenium theatre. The stagecraft of the play was like most plays I’ve…

During a war, there are different rankings of soldiers in the army. There are the soldiers such as generals in the back who are high up in the ranks that make all the orders and then there are the soldiers up front who execute those orders. After World War II ended in 1945, Bill Mauldin, a military journalist and cartoonist for Stars and Stripes published a nonfiction narrative with several of his cartoons called, Up Front. In the book, Mauldin focuses on the infantry soldiers on the frontline…

Perception and War War is a difficult subject to think about. Images of it are hard to look at and described as gruesome or gory. It seems strange that disagreements between countries are solved by sending people from each state involved in the dispute to fight each other and “die for their country.” Huge amounts of money have been spent to find new and better ways to kill people – maybe a single person, as is often the aim of an unmanned drone strike, or a large number of people, with more…

General Curtis LeMay’s role as the commander of the XXI Bomber Command influenced the victory against Japan by his ultimate success in the areas of strategic, operational and tactical levels of warfare. Without LeMay’s innovation and gallantry the United States’ air warfare tactics would have continued to be ineffective against the Japanese homeland. LeMay’s focus on the Pacific theater of operation while commanding led to the largest and most effective air raid of the war. By adapting when,…

But, in 1943, the the Zionist leaders in Budapest were a lot tougher than the ones in his past. The commander was merciless to the Jews and the weather conditions were inferior. Schindler decides to make a list of Jews, he and others wish to save in 1944.”Schindler compiles a list of 1200 Jews that he then protects from the hands of the Nazis. By bribing…

water or sea. The Amphibious Engineer has been utilized in major conflicts throughout history. The linage of the modern amphibious engineer, can be traced from the Revolutionary War until today’s Modern Engineer. The Amphibious Engineer contributed to the turning of the Revolutionary War in December 1776. The Commander in Chief, George Washington, was encamped on the shore of the Delaware River. He had approximately 6,000 Soldiers under his command which was stretched over 80 miles of the…

labels as sociopaths or psychopaths to separate and classify those that are different. Browning’s Ordinary Men, however, sheds light on a group of men that willingly participated in the systematic executions and deportations of Jews in Poland during World War II. Men that, when given a choice, decided to follow orders instead of withdraw. Reserve Police Battalion 101 comprised of middle-aged, working-class…

this, the U.S had no choice but to join the war. On December 8, 1941 Franklin asked congress to declare war on Japan. On December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor, a U.S navy base near the Hawaiian island of Oahu, was attacked by the Japanese. One of the very few who knew about this plan was Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a Japanese leader. The Japanese had to keep it secret so that the U.S had no time to prepare. In the end, the Japanese thought that while the war was starting, the U.S would be…

Cyberwarfare is defined as a new generation of war that uses computers and software to attack networks and acquire data or damage important infrastructures to get advantage in a military campaign. Nowadays, cyber espionage to obtain access to data bases is common. By using viruses or spyware hackers can invade military or governmental networks to get classified information in order to gain intelligence. An example was the cyber spy GhostNet supposedly used by China in 2009. According to the…