Luftwaffe

justification of bombing the Heinkel factory for the killing of 1,000 civilians and the destruction of 70 percent of the city. He continues to argue that it is these actions and the lack of remorse by the allies provided Germany incentive into launching Luftwaffe raids into England, specifically the London core. The bombing of the civilian population by the Germans would lead to larger RAF…

Falcon Field, This historic part of Arizona was built in Mesa in 1941 with many factors contributing to its construction (Arizona Aircraft Wrecks). The Construction of Falcon Field started with Mesa’s Major George N. Goodman talking with local military officers and saying that construction of this airfield would cost the city of Mesa $50000 dollars to build (BREAK GROUND). While at Falcon Field there would be a large building housing the kitchen and the mess hall, and to the right of it was the…

Ride the Lightning: The brilliance and brutality of the Blitzkrieg Immediately after Hitler became the German Leader, he worked at a furious pace to reach the objectives he specified in Mein Kampf. First he rebuked the terms of the Versailles Treaty and then worked to Remilitarize the German war machine. Hitler had the foresight to surround himself with other like-minded individuals that helped him quickly realize his goals. Bound by the restraints of the Versailles Treaty, The German…

The invasion of Normandy was one of, if not the most important victory the allies ever had during World War II. With this victory, the United States, British and Canadian forces began pushing inland towards Germany to suffocate Hitler and his forces from the West while Stalin and his troops attacked from the East. Without this victory in Northern France, Europe and the rest of the world could look much differently than it does today. The plan for an offensive to attack Germany by crossing the…

the Mengele experiments, fewer than 200 individuals survived.” ( Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) 17 Nov. 2007: Newspaper Source.EBSCO. 12 Mar. 2016.) “Holocaust survivor Susan Vigorito found the use of the word "data" a sterile term. She was 3½ when she and her twin sister, Hannah, arrived at Auschwitz. They were housed for an entire year in Mengele's private lab in a wooden cage a yard and a half wide. Without anesthetic, Mengele would repeatedly scrape at the bone tissue of one of her legs. Her…

dust and bodies still in their nightwear, looking so peaceful, the worst part was seeing the children. This was not looking like a heaven in my opinion. The street was hell. My lungs start to take on so much dust that I start to cough and wheeze. A Luftwaffe Sondereinheit (LSE), one of the Air Raid Special Unit officers approached me and told me I needed to leave, I started to explain about the girl and started to describe her and where she lived, he stopped me, he said she was the only…

At the beginning of the Second World War, Winston Churchill was viewed as a gifted politician who had changed parties twice, an impulsive man with impractical enthusiasms and a Conservative member who opposed the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Within six years, this reputation of Churchill had turned around completely as he became the Prime Minister, a hard-nosed war leader, and a powerful speaker, constantly encouraging the British people to stay courageous. Churchill was unique in his…

“I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing.” This was a common phrase used by a Sergeant in the television show Hogan’s Heroes. This was a comedic series that was set in Germany during World War II, specifically in a Luftwaffe (German Air Force) prisoner-of-war camp. The prisoners at this camp were not like any other prisoners, their mission was to sabotage the German war effort, smuggle escaped prisoners to England, and make their commandant’s life as annoying as possible. Some people…

Since the beginning of history, art has been used as a way to express the feelings a nation faces during one of society’s biggest tragedies: war. When the city of Guernica in Spain was mercilessly bombed by the Luftwaffe, Pablo Picasso began working on his painting titled Guernica to show the Spaniard’s disdain for the war. Similarly, Bernie Boston captured his photograph titled Flower Power during a protest for the Vietnam War. These two works of art share many differences, both obvious and…

The historical museum I choose to visit was the Palm Springs Air Museum which has been opened since 1996 and is a non-profit organization. I visited this museum on the 17 of November. The Museum boast thirty-eight aircrafts all from small fighter jets to massive bombers. As well as groups, people, and weapons that were significant in war times during World War Two. While their taking in all the different types of airplanes and how each one was used to help in the war, there was one airplane that…