Landing

Landing of Columbus Painted By John Vanderlyn The painting Landing of Columbus was first commissioned by congress in 1836 to hang in the Capitol Rotunda. The painting was finally put on display in the January 1847 at the Capitol Rotunda. This painting depicts Christopher Columbus and members of his crew shown on a beach in the West Indies, the first landfall of their expedition to find a westward route from Europe to China, Japan and perhaps unknown lands. On October 12, 1492, they reached this…

it with the United Stares. What the U.S didn’t know was that all of it was faked. Many Americans can debate for or against the first moon landing being a hoax. “Bill Kaysing has claimed that the chance of a successful landing on the moon was calculated to be 0.0017% (1 in 60,000).” (Braeunig) Bill Kaysing is a writer who wrote about all the Apollo landings being hoaxes and basically started the whole theory. From the facts that are out there, the shuttle…

One Small Step Leads to Many Big Reactions The moon landing of the space mission Apollo 11 in 1969 was one of humanity’s most prodigious achievements. This event affected every single person in the world, from the children watching on their black and white televisions, imagining a galactic future, to the presidents watching on secure channels, postponing an atomic war. Four media outlets handled the event in different ways. The Times of London, in an un-credited news article, focuses on the…

world, the ones surrounding the NASA landings, just aren’t well thought out. To the average person, the photographs showing an astronaut stand out compared to the present background to the shadows not being parallel. These arguments may seem legitimate, but conspiracy theorists lack the advanced understanding how light differs on the moon compared to Earth. Another argument which can absolutely no be argued…

film 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…

Knot’s Landing had many protagonists throughout its 14 year run, and the episode in question had at least 12 protagonists. That may seem like a lot of protagonists to follow, but the show does a good job of simplifying this, by making the characters already related…

began unloading and got stuck so we had to embark. That was as far as we could be taken so we got off. We were 275 yards from the beach. I had to swim and get to shore. Someone was yelling on shore and he wanted ropes taken out and hooked on the landing craft. I saw guys coming in on the ropes. Later i wondered how many men couldn’t swim. Some got hit and many died. I heard “help me, help me” everywhere i turned. Bulldozers were pushing men aside to make a path for the machines. I had to go out…

France. After the liberation of France, The allies continued their campaign towards Germany. D-Day is the greatest amphibious assault in history. Six allie divisions landed on the multiple beaches of Normandy that day. During the invasion, miss landings on the beaches left Allie soldiers open to German machine guns and artillery which led to heavy casualties. The success of D-Day led to the conclusion of the European theatre. D-Day is considered the “Greatest amphibious assault in…

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…

One of the most important battles in World War II, D-Day, can often be recognized as Operation Overlord or Operation Neptune, when people refer to D-Day, they often think of storming the beaches of Normandy and forget about the other tactics involved in the invasion. Many often ask what the “D” in D-Day stands for. “In military terms, D-Day and H-Hour are sometimes used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.” Most times they are used when a date has…