Landing craft

Journal Entry 1: The GREEN HORNET has just gone down. I can't even fathom how it happened, something went wrong and Cuppernell and I were in switched positions. We couldn't save the plane, we're in the Pacific now. It's up to Louie, Mac, and me now. Louie and Mac sorted the supplies we have: -some coins -watches (that don't work) -flare gun -two canvas case air pumps -sea dye -half-pint tins of water -a brass mirror -set of pliers with a built-in screwdriver -spool of fishing line -set of…

“Houston, we have a problem.” said Jim Lovell, an astronaut of Apollo 13, when the oxygen tank explored in the Space in 1970. After the talk, this lunar exploration gained a worldwide concern. Three astronauts in the craft fought with numerous disastrous faults and eventually back to the earth. In 1995, this regrettable story was even recorded as a historical docudrama named Apollo 13. Such social repercussion brought up a perspective that Apollo 13, one of the most well-known explorations of…

who served the AFPU and how they could not record the battle nonstop, VK.3001 Panzer Drehturm 37mm guns decimating men besides one machine gunner, the use of U.S tanks and naval bombardments during the battle, the arrangement of men on the boarding crafts, and missing weaponry such as mortar teams and demolition squads with TNT satchels. Even though this film did not represent the Battle of Omaha precisely Spielberg was still able to get the point across that there is nothing glorious about war,…

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D-day D-day was the beginning of the allied liberation in Europe. It took years to prepare for and, was codenamed operation overlord. The invasion was the largest amphibious assault in history. The Normandy landings were the beginning of the end of the war in Europe. They knew there would be an invasion in northwest Europe. (History.com Staff "D-Day" 2009) Preparation for the war took over two years. D-day was planned for June 5, 1944. The Germans knew there would be a massive invasion in…

‘’Let's go ladies,’’ yells the captain of the landing craft that Logan Thomas was on. It was June 6, 1944 at 6:30. There was a slight matalic smell and was quite cool from the water sprays. Logan was a part of the 2nd battalion. He is just out of high school, Logan was a tall, very muscular boy. He was a part of the football and wrestling team. But, even he felt the fear of landing on Omaha Beach. Logan looks up at his fellow troops and sees many young boys shaking in fear with their M1’s in…

The Normandy landing was the operation that happened on Tuesday, June 6, 1944. Where the Allied troops invaded Normandy in "Operation Overlord" during World War II. Also known as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne attack in history and the most ambitious military assault (History). D-Day was the most important turning point during WWII, requiring much preparation by the US and Allies, excellent execution of the planned attack on D-Day itself, and through the effect it had helped the Allies gain…

Was the moon landing real or fake? On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 supposedly blasted off and landed two men on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. The first theory was that the moon landing was real. According to expert, Tom Kemnitz, Armstrong reported that they landed on the moon from the rocket ship sent into space. Armstrong says, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed” from the moon to NASA this supports that the…

directed by Steven Spielberg, Captain John Miller and other GIs approach Omaha beach in a landing craft. The scene begins with the soldiers all tightly cramped in the landing craft awaiting the landing on the beach. There is then a close-up of Captain Miller’s hand shaking and the camera then pans up towards his face and then slowly moves backwards to show the faces of the other soldiers in the landing craft. It shows some men throwing up and then there is a countdown of 30 seconds by a soldier…

The D-Day invasion was given the codename Operation Overlord. Operation Overlord was the result of over 2 years of planning. Before D-Day the allies did many things to make Germany think that the main invasion would be at other places in France. The things they did to trick them included fake radio transmissions, fake armies, and fake equipment. The allies used Operation Fortitude to trick the Germans into thinking the invasion would happen in an area that was the shortest distance between…