Squadron

scenarios. The command and control method is useful in heightened emergency situations and during crisis periods. The narrative in the film Twelve O’clock High could be described as one requiring that kind of leadership. The movie is about a U.S. flying squadron that is based in England during World War II. The soldiers are putting up a poor performance which is evidenced by planes getting destroyed and professional pilots meeting their death. The high command does an assessment of the situation…

The United States have been using Air Defense Tactics dating back to World War II. What started out as 50. Caliber machine guns firing into the sky has developed into missile to missile interception. Although the transition has been rather short, there has been multiple steps leading up to the systems that we use today. During the late 1960s, the US Military was faced with obstacles that we have never faced before during the Vietnam War. One of our systems proved not only to be combat effective…

The invasion of Normandy was a scene of carnage as the United States-led soldiers stormed the beach to gain a foothold in Nazi-held territory. Against an entrenched and battle-hardened force, the soldiers assaulted, wave after wave, against the beachhead. Man and machine were working as one to oppose the forces of a dictator of unspeakable horror. The first few moments, a bloodbath that ensued from men being thrown into the meat grinder that was the Nazi stronghold, was the defining moment of…

As can be seen both in literature and in life, Humans naturally gravitate towards lies that are convenient to whatever narrative they want to believe. Contemporarily, Facebook has faced accusations of creating “information bubbles” which surround people with content that reinforces their political opinions. These “information bubbles” facilitated the proliferation of fake news and strongly influenced the outcome of the 2016 election. Shakespeare’s Othello uses characters to illustrate the…

My grandpa, Onas L. Mays, was born Jan 23rd, 1919, at 3:30 in the morning. Instead of being delivered in a hospital, Onas was born inside his log home in Howe, Idaho. He was welcomed to his family by loving parents, James and Anna Mays, along with his older siblings, Wilma, Emlen, and Carl. He was raised on a sheep and cattle ranch. This influenced him to grow up as a farmer later in his life. Onas learned to work hard at a young age. He didn’t grow up with tractors to help him with his chores…

interest in purchasing Cuba had begun long before 1898. Following the Ten Years War, American sugar interests bought up large tracts of land in Cuba. Alterations in the U.S. sugar tariff favoring home-grown beet sugar helped foment the rekindling of revolutionary fervor in 1895. By that time the U.S. had spent more than fifty thousand dollars in Cuba and trade, mainly in sugar, was worth twice that much. War was becoming intense and had been growing in the United States, despite President…

position with the DPRK. The reason is of course due all the way back in the Korean war. When the US and Canada and other UN nations got involved, it became an extremely deadly war. Canada sent 27,000 soldiers, as well as eight naval vessels and a squadron of transport aircrafts, while losing 516 Canadians and wounding 1,200. Canadian Korean war veteran Don Hibbs says “There’s dirt, there’s dust. There’s people hollering, there’s people dying on both sides, you can hear them. It was terrifying.”.…

Why did Hitler wait to invade Dunkirk? Hitler waited to invade Dunkirk for all the following reasons; he was being “sporting” to the British, his forces were worn out from the Blitzkrieg, and fear of a counter-attack from the British, but the main reason was he had misplaced faith in the Luftwaffe. First off, there were numerous failed counter attacks that were terribly unsuccessful, but each one did manage to slow down the German advance and cause casualties and damages to vehicles and other…

Louis Zamperini was a olympian who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and was scheduled to compete in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics was cancelled due to WWII. Zamperini due to the cancellation of the Olympic enrolled in the Army Air Corps. He was later captured by the Chinese and sent into one of their slave camps. Although Louis Zamperini had a very good childhood his life would later be changed, and do the event of him being captured, placed in a slave camp, and surviving, he was…

On the surface, satire may seem meaningless, but is actually thought provoking proven by Catch 22. The novel itself is composed in mockery of World War II. This novel is centered on the compact island of Pianosa in the Mediterranean sea, immediately upon Germany no longer being a threat to the United States. It evolves around the endeavors of one man, Yossarian, to carry through the everlasting war. Throughout this novel Yossarian is trying to escape the war, and in order to do so he does…