Dive bomber

Long cold days slowly fade into short hot summer days. We pass the time enjoying the last few months of the school year. Before we know it time flies by quick and school is out for the summer. Summertime is always full of memories, some good and some bad. Last summer memories consist of heartbreak, laughs, work, friends, and love. I went threw it all, the begging of summer i was already over it and ready to graduate and be out of pawnee. As the days past on i found myself wishing time would stop…

For my photoethnography project, I decided to observe local dive bar Frank & Marlee’s in Oxford, Mississippi. Frank and Marlee’s hosts a special every Tuesday called “Taco Tuesday” and offers dollar tacos, as well as eight-dollar margarita pitchers. Many students and residents frequent this tavern to enjoy drinks and food everyday. However even though many people find Frank & Marlee’s accepting and inviting, I discovered many attributes often don’t represent that notion. Todd Lynch and his…

On December 7th, 1941 hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor (Prados, 2009). This attack on the United States was devastating and to this day many American’s still recognize and remember the loss and fury we experienced due to this attack some 70 years ago. The next day following the attack the United States entered WWII declaring war on Japan (Prados, 2009). Six months after declaring war on Japan, Americans fought in one of the most decisive naval…

attack was called Pearl Harbor. The first wave of Japanese pilots came in at around 7:50 am. The Japanese pilots were called torpedo bombers. Torpedo bombers dropped bombs that had propellers on the back of the bomb which would then push the torpedo into the desired target. Around 7:53a.m, more pilots from the first wave came in and the pilots were called dive bombers, these pilots had to swoop down and then drop their bombs on the desired location. Several U.S. aircraft were shot down as the…

waves of bombers from Midway but no bombs or torpedos hit and many of the US aircraft were shot down. The following attack was later that day where a squadron of dive bombers was launched from US carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. The dive bombers were able to do quite severe damage to three of Japan’s four carriers but the remaining carrier Hiyru sent a squadron of torpedo bombers to attack Yorktown twice and it withstood both attacks. Not long after, Hiyru was damaged by US dive bombers. On…

The Enterprise task group had sailed into a slight rain squall, in consequence of that, they did not see the Japanese air groups.¨ All the anger was concentrated in the Hornet. At 10:12 am, the ¨Val¨ dive bombers opened up the assault. ¨ (USS HORNET) The Captain, Captain Manson kept her sailing at a high speed. Twisting, turning, to try and avoid and dodge all the bombs raining from the sky. One scored a hit and hit at the end the Hornet’s flight deck.…

returned. Despite this immense loss of men and aircraft, it reaped the beneficial results of forcing the Japanese carriers to maneuver so that they could not launch their bombers and forcing the Japanese to concentrate their fighters on the low-flying aircraft, preventing them from being in a position to interfere when American dive bombers…

Leading up to the attack of Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto planned sticking the U.S. with fighters, dive-bombers, and torpedoes because he wanted the U.S. to surrender before the war started. Midget submarines were the perfect choice for this mission because they were hard too see in the water and quick.Admiral Yamamoto's attack was two-fisted because striking the initial blow would be fighter, dive-bomber, and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers -- at the time, the greatest…

wasn't used to bomb the death camps because the camps were at least 2000 KM in Germany territory and “Douglas SBD Dauntless” has a maximum of 1795KM. This means the plane will crash before it gets to the Death camps. (“ Douglas SBD Dauntless, Best Dive Bomber of…

developing versus the rate at which aviation weapons systems were developing. This became a problem when the actual aircraft were very advanced but the weapons systems were sub-par and weren’t using aviation for what it was capable of – at least until bombers were developed. However, during the time period where aircraft were still using machine guns as their weapons system, aircraft could only be effective against other planes and were essentially useless to naval warfare . After that, it took…