Dive bomber

Laura Hillenbrand uses vivid sensory details in the preface of Unbroken to create suspense. The preface starts out describing how Louie and his crew were adrift at sea and how the Japanese captured them. She describes and restates multiple times how far out in the ocean they are and how long they’ve been adrift, “All he could see, in every direction, was water.”, "Endless expanse of ocean.", "Adrift for 27 days", "At least 1,000 miles deep into Japanese controlled waters.", "They were alone in…

First, the characters like Aki and Danny never existed, as stated by the author and i quote”the books i wrote are based off of historical events but my characters are fictional” Next, they used about 20 different jets and bombers like,b-18s,a-34 dive bombers,T.I.T.A.N.S,ext. last, there was actually a german U boat found but it was found 42 years earlier in 1899. That is the 3 reasons that we found that support why this book is historical fiction. Overall i found that the book i survived…

Japanese warships southwest of the Islands. At 9:25 a.m., another US pilot sighted the same ship, which he identified as their main fleet. Upon learning the information from the pilots, the US Navy sent 9 Boeing B-17 Bombers to the warships. This plan ended up failing, as the B-17 bombers missed all their shots and were shot down by the Japanese before any major damage occurred to their fleet. The next day, June 4th, 1942, at 5:45 a.m. a Catalina pilot successfully decoded a message that was…

tactics if the mission were to be a success. As a result, they started intense training approximately 6-months before the raid. To illustrates, the pilots where training 10-12 hours a day, the Horizontal bombers, flying Nakajima B5N2 Type 97s, raised their accuracy at 10-15,000 feet by 40%. Their dive bombers, known as Aichi D3A1 Type 99s, increased their accuracy by nearly…

can be drawn from the dive site: Direction: From shore Depth: The Hemmoor Kreidesee has a depth of 200 feet (61m) Visibility: Visible up to 100 feet Cave: No Night dive: No Free: No, base license fee applies Fish and Animals: Crayfish, Trout and latter Temperature: 12-13 Degrees Celsius (58 degrees Fahrenheit) What to see: Ruins of the mining facility, wrecks of boats, Industrial equipment and Aeroplanes.…

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sustain themselves with provisions left in the raft. After a few days, a search plane flies over them but does not see them and they are unable to get its attention. Soon, they learn how to fish and eat raw fish. Later, they are shot at by a nip dive bomber. Louis prays to God and vows that if he survives all of this, he will dedicate his life to God when he returns back to America. Mac dies on the 46th day, on the 47th Louis and Phil become prisoners of war. While at the camp, the inmates are…

With the aggression of the dictators in Europe the Democratic European leaders wanted to find a solution to the growing problem. Hitler and Mussolini violated the Treaty of Versailles and built up their armies to invade other countries. Italy invaded Ethiopia to start another Italian empire. Germany built up its army, created a new air force, the Luftwaffe, and sent troops into the Rhineland. Japan left the League of Nations and invaded Manchuria. By the time European leaders wanted to take…

Fighter and Bomber Aircraft of WWII During World War II, aviation firmly established itself as an important part of warfare. Countries taking part in WWII quickly learned that dominating the air meant winning the war. Before WWII, most of the strategies for air warfare were mainly theoretical, since WWI had little effective air warfare, and most air to air combat at the time was primitive. Fighter aircraft are military aircraft which are designed mostly for air to air combat against other…

heavily damaged at the first attack, but never sunk. It took the Japanese a second air attack to finally sink the Yorktown. The second time they thought they sunk the Enterprise was in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands hit twice by dive bombs by Japanese dive bombers which caused the ship to be serious damaged to the point that the ship almost sank that day (Swopes). Luckily, the US Navy was able to tow the ship back to Pearl Harbor for repair. The third time was in April 11, 1944 in the…