Iwo Jima

In his speech “We Shall Overcome,” Lyndon Baines Johnson addresses Congress on his proposed Civil Rights Bill, arguing against the deliberate oppression and denial of the most basic rights to African American citizens because of the color of their skin. Johnson unites his audience by appealing to American patriotism in order to create an image of a strong united group of people, himself included, that must fight for their common values. He creates a common hero of the oppressed African American…

Japanese are not going down without a fight. They continue to wage war against the U.S. even though we have won almost every battle with them. We have continuously fire bombed them with incendiaries(Mayo, Wayland)(Rauch, Jonathan) and have taken Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Their code is, “Victory or honorable death.”(Horie, Yoshitaka) The Japanese at that time thought they were the superior race to all others.…

The first interview was with Sammy L. Davis. He fought in the Vietnam War. He fought alongside his brother as well. The things he‘d done, the things he went through took a lot of courage and strength both mentally and physically. He took shrapnel to his legs and dozens of little bullets all running down his back, butt, and legs. Using a two ton broken machine, his back and a couple of ribs were broken when it had flipped over after firing. The second interview was with Tibor "Ted" Rubin. He…

As the Japanese already established their willingness to fight tooth and nail for Japan and the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa suggesting a substantial amount of loss of life and property for an invasion of Japan homeland. The atomic bombs were possibly the only alterative to what an invasion would hold, as author Bernstein defines with America’s potential Invasion…

– Two decades after the first world war, politically unstable Germany allowed the rise to power of a man that will forever be infamous. Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) took control of Germany. They rearmed the nation and signed treaties with Italy and Japan, He was going along with his desire of world authority. Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939 which force Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. This was the start of WWII. Over 45…

There are several reasons the atomic bomb was necessary to use against Japan towards the end of the Pacific War / World War II. The first most obvious reason was retaliation against Japan’s surprise attack on the United States Naval Base Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. The bombing of Pearl Harbor left the United States with over 2,400 military casualties and 20 destroyed or damaged ships. The attack on Pearl Harbor was one of the sole reasons the United States had declared war on Japan. With…

Electronics Technician Supervisor  Trained and mentored members to troubleshoot and perform preventative maintenance on electrical equipment to maintain message traffic and external communication equipment throughout USS Iwo Jima Test Equipment Manager  Coordinated and managed $1.3 million dollars in test equipment and provided over 406 pieces of electronic test equipment to 34 work centers while maintaining 100%…

Since the mid-1980s, Spielberg has increased his role as a film producer. He headed up the production team for several cartoons, including the Warner Bros. hits Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Toonsylvania, and Freakazoid!, for which he collaborated with Jean MacCurdy and Tom Ruegger. Due to his work on these series, in the official titles, most of them say, "Steven Spielberg presents" as well as making numerous cameos on the shows. Spielberg also produced the Don Bluth…

Atomic bombs have been a pretty big part of warfare for the last few wars. The first ever atomic bomb was made in July 16, 1945 in New Mexico. Lots of people don’t like bombs because of all of the bad events that can come from it, but it is very necessary for war it has helped the United States to win. Such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Atomic bombs might be dangerous by they are a key part of the United States warfare. Atomic bombs in wars have been very powerful, they can end the…

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:- During the last days of the second world war 2 atomic bombs were detonated on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the most terrific and destructive incident in the history of wars. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima which wiped out at least 90 percent of the city and killed 80,000 people in an instance, thousands of people more would die later because of the radiations of the explosion. Just after 3 days another atomic bomb was dropped on city of…