Commanders of World War II

Museum at Florida International University present “A Tribute to America’s WWII Veterans”. Having such a ceremony is yet a small gratitude compared to those brave men and women who found during World War II to prevent the spread of Nazism. The award is to honor those who fought alongside France during World War II. Six veterans received the Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur (Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honor). The Miami-Florida Jean Monnet Center of…

In My Reveries upon the Art of War, Maurice de Saxe argues that military commanders must understand the fundamentals of warfare before pursuing innovation. The greatest lesson that De Saxe’s text reveals is that human nature can be controlled through discipline. This is apparent when examining how human nature differs from military culture and by considering how the military uses discipline to control human nature. Adhering to the military culture is not ordinary to the nature of human beings.…

useful in heightened emergency situations and during crisis periods. The narrative in the film Twelve O’clock High could be described as one requiring that kind of leadership. The movie is about a U.S. flying squadron that is based in England during World War II. The soldiers are putting up a poor performance which is evidenced by planes getting destroyed and professional pilots meeting their death. The high command does an assessment of the situation and makes the conclusion that leadership…

During World War II, a lot of movie producers and directors made movies, skits, and plays about the war or they tied the war into it. Most of the time they had men while they were in combat and has the Nazi and Japanese that were making everything bad. Celebrities started to actually join the military. Most if them just did the bootcamp and recorded while they did it. Others, actually went overseas and fought in the war. An award winning actor joined the U.S air force and his purpose was a…

was marked by patent wars, testing plans and various demonstrations of technology but not a great deal of programming. On July 1, 1941, NBC became the first network to launch a commercially sponsored broadcast and was soon followed by CBS and others. But with the advent of World War II The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned the commercial production of TV equipment for the duration of war. People craved for TV especially after the Great Depression and World War II. The postwar…

Japan Paper: The Bombing of Pearl Harbor From the Japanese Perspective World War II was the result of many countries attempting to obtain what did not belong to them. Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi political party, was attempting to forge a massive German empire out of the German homeland and surrounding territories. The Japanese were attempting to create a massive empire that fanned out in all directions from the mainland islands. With these attempts at gain, massive amounts of…

This film is set during World War II, 1943. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. During this time many men, like Louis Zamperini, were taken as prisoners of war. This film opens with a flashback, of Louis when he was carefree, smoking cigarettes and drinking. Later on, Louis is caught drinking at an athletic event and runs across the field surprising everyone with his speed. His brother trains…

Park in Hut 8, he is accompanied by his fellow cryptologists and colleague Joan Clarke, who is played by Keira Knightley. 'Enigma ' was a highly complex device used by the Nazi Germans to send encrypted code messages throughout the world prior and during World War II. The device was so instrumental to Hitler 's early dominance because nobody except the Germans knew how to read and decipher the messages during the early folds of the…

Declares War on Japan Early morning of December 7th 1941, the first of nearly 200 Japanese aircrafts took off from carriers located of the Hawaiian Islands. Their destination being Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes had bombarded the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. The next day December 8th 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, asked congress to declare war against Japan in the speech he shared. The speech that was probably his most memorable speech. Soon after, the United States entered World War…

The book by Stephen E. Ambrose ‘D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II’ is about the planning and execution of D-Day mostly told in the viewpoint and words of soldiers who were there to witness it all. The book starts in the beginning of 1944 and ends on D-Day. Eisenhower the commander of the allies, and Rommel the commander for the Germans had much in common, but the major difference was Eisenhower could command anyway he wanted to. Rommel however had to get permission from…