It was 40 years until the United States was introduced to the naval vessel known as the destroyer. It began in 1866 when Captain Giovanni Luppis of the Austrian Navy had invented the self-propelled torpedo which changed sea warfare forever. With the invention of these torpedoes combined with small cheap speed boats known as torpedo boats caused real trouble for the larger combat vessels known as battleships. Torpedo boats did this by either overwhelming them with their sheer numbers combined…
I picked an interview with Sumner Clayton he served in the US Navy from 1960 until 1980. The reason I picked this interview is because Sumner served as a part of a mine interdiction division. Sumner was originally put into the fleet sonar school in Key West but after accidentally electrocuting himself with 440 DC of electricity refused to go back stating he would rather "pick up the paint scraper". He claims leaving the school was the biggest mistake of his life as he spent the next 19 years on…
Private would go on to become one of the most decorated Marines in the Corps’ history. Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller spent the better part of 37 years dedicated to the Marine Corps and his Marines. Puller’s numerous battlefield accomplishments and 5 Navy Crosses make him a legend among Marines. Chesty was the epitome of selfless service placing our nation, the Marine Corps and every Marine that served under him ahead of his own personal needs and interests. Matthew and Martha Puller gave…
book “The Temple” by H.P. Lovecraft are Karl Heinrich Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein and Lieutenant Klienze. There are other characters involved in the story but none that go into detail. Altberg-Ehrenstein is the “Lieutenant-Commander in the Imperial German Navy and in charge of the submarine U-29” (Lovecraft, 27). Lieutenant Klenze was the fellow-officer on board. Amongst the rest of the submarine were sailors with poor attitudes and a knack for causing…
things. The Blue Angels are people in jets that do tricks and other things such as flips and rolls with jets. “The Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, ordered the establishment of the team on April 24, 1946, as a recruiting tool for the Navy.” The name Blue Angels came from a New York magazine and it had the Blue Angel nightclub on it. The closest the jets have ever been together while flying was 18 inches. We set up a date and time to go and help them and we needed to see how…
twenty-five, Stephen Decatur was the youngest person ever to become a captain in the U.S. Navy. Heroism, devotion, and his leadership abilities made him an iconic officer in the growing U.S. Navy. Along with leading a victorious campaign against Tripoli and successful endeavors in the War of 1812, he coined the phrase, “Our country, right or wrong.” Ultimately Stephen Decatur’s actions throughout his time in the navy generated a long-lasting legend of courage and patriotism and an ideal…
Some key reasons why this team was created was because it would allow Japanese-American’s to defend the United States, it would help make the case that Japanese-American’s were loyal to America and the people who were prejudice towards them could have a second opinion, it would counter the propaganda that America was involved in a “race war” in the Far East. This…
Manzanar is a book about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. The book focuses on the experiences of a Japanese American family who was taken to the Manzanar internment camp in 1942. The story narrates the family’s struggles to survive the hostile world filled with racial tensions outside and inside the internment camp. Also, the book describes the life of a seven-year-old Japanese American child who grow up behind…
000 Japanese Americans were removed, with force if necessary, from their homes and placed in internment camps. Further research to view both views of both the Japanese Americans and the Americans revealed much. Even with nothing more than a simple google search and 10 minutes one can find numerous articles about how to justify the internment camps, however difficulty rises as you seek articles that have the audacity to argue the topic…
Henry Lee, a Chinese adolescent, and Keiko Okabe, a Japanese adolescent, two lovers that are under extenuating circumstances that are preventing them from being together. Henry’s father is a Chinese nationalist, and because of World War II being fought in the story’s timeframe, he completely rejects any Japanese person, let alone a Japanese person with his only son. On the other hand, Keiko is forced into an internment camp because of her Japanese nationality, and this prevents Henry and Keiko…