Torpedo

the signal bridge and rained live ordnance and flaming debris onto, and through, the flight deck below." "As the last group of the bombers dove down, the torpedo aircraft closed in from multiple directions." Two torpedoes had struck the hull on the starboard side. Three more bombs exploded at various levels within the ship, and a burning torpedo aircraft made a suicide crash into the forward hull on the port…

periscope, observed a submarine. At the same moment, a seaman viewed an enormous bubble advancing towards the ship (p. 384). The missile was fired from the German U-20 commanded by Schweiger. Survivors reported of two explosions, the explosion of the torpedo striking the ship, and a second more violent explosion. Undoubtedly sending the Lusitania to the depths of the Atlantic in a brief time of just eighteen…

the beginning of the war the american citizens supported the the war as the Vietnamese sunk a american ship at the Gulf Of Tonkin on the 2 of August 1964 a destroyer USS Maddox was doing intelligence patrols when reportedly 3 North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats attacked these incidents escalated the war in Vietnam but when the government brought back Conscription there support began to decline and then the Tet Offensive is when they began to oppose the war.In January 1968 the Vietcong and the…

beginning Boeing focused receiving government contracts. One example is when, “The enterprise [Boeing] built ‘flying boats’ for the Navy during World War 1 and in the 1920s and ‘30s it successfully sold its trainers, pursuit planes, observation craft, torpedo planes, and patrol bombers to the U.S. military” (Weiss and Amir). The company developed the planes when Westervelt was relocated to the East Coast in preparation for World War I and sent a letter to Bill Boeing asking for training planes…

got fully clothed to bed. A particular passenger, “A young english man at our table had been served with his ice cream and was waiting for the steward to bring him a spoon to eat it with. He looked ruefully at it and said he would hate to have a torpedo get to him before he ate it”(234). Lucky he made it alive. Another case was when the American ambassador wrote, “The blowing up of a liner with American passengers may be the prelude […] I almost expect such a thing.’ He added, ‘If a British…

1. (250 words max.) Heraclitus says the following: “Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending” (KRS fr. 194). What is this “logos” that is so incomprehensible for human beings? The logos describes the persisting constitution of the cosmos. Heraclitus claims the logos is “common” and perceivable, and although everything passes in accordance to the logos, many fail to comprehend it (Heraclitus, Fragment 2, 55). Heraclitus claims that to understand the cosmos,…

might happen. Later that day the air-raid sirens started to go off! The japanese were inbound with over 100 planes! Everyone on all the ships were frantically going to battle stations but the Japanese were well to prepared. They flew in dropping torpedos and bombs towards the ships. They…

Hedy Lamarr was born in Vienna. She left America to get away from her husband who was selling weapons to the Nazis. Her excuse was she had an acting career. She did have an acting career I mean she was a good actor and a beautiful woman. She tried acting in many places but she got homesick and returned to Vienna. Where she continued acting and was seen by many producers. Hedy Lamar invented the Secret Communications System which changed radio frequencies at irregular intervals between…

On December 7, 1941, 2,403 lives were lost during the attack on Pearl Harbor. ‘’2,008 naval men, 109 Marines, 218 army men., and 68 civilians also lost their lives that day, which isn’t concluding the Japanese deaths’’(visitpearlharbor.org). ‘’Wounded came to 1,143 with 710 navy, 69 marines, and 364 army men, as well as 103 civilians. Also along with a total of 55 Japanese men’’(pearlharbormemorial.com). ‘’1,177 were from the USS Arizona and were on board or in the water when they…

Military leaders do not necessarily have to come from combat or even been in the military. They just needed to have made a change in the way that warfare is done and made a difference to the men, and later women, in the military. One such man was John P. Holland. He is widely considered the Father of the Modern Submarine and I consider him influential because he made a major impact on the way that battles at sea are fought. Holland was born in Ireland where he grew up and worked as a teacher,…