Indianapolis was deemed fit for duty She was call upon to carry out a secret mission that only the highest-ranking officers knew the details about. The Indianapolis sailed to California to pick up parts and enriched uranium that would be used to build “little boy”, the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. After a successful unloading at Tinian She was directed to join the battleship USS Idaho in the Philippines to prepare for the invasion of japan. On 10 July the Indianapolis was steaming towards Japan from the US base in Guam when just around midnight She was struck with two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine. With in twelve minuets she sank bow down listing to the starboard side.
Coffin ships were mostly filthy and disease ridden, The Star was no different, on the 5th day of the 20 week voyage 4 steerage passengers die of typhus. The majority of steerage passengers had dysenyary, scurvy or famine dropsy while about 15 had all three. Word goes around that there are things missing from the first class passengers and some one has sawed through the loser foredeck gate bars. The crew soon discovers that there is a hack saw missing from the kitchen, the saw was stolen by pius mulvey. The 6th chapter in this novel is a letter from the hisband of mary duane, a nanny to one of the first class
The first Japanese port to be opened to foreign trade in the 16th century, Nagasaki was devastated by the second atomic bomb used in World War II (August 9, 1945). Population: 452,000. 2.Define: Island- Hopping: Island hopping is a term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination. Kamikaze: Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission. Manhattan project: A United States project lasting from August 1942 to August 1946, which developed the atomic energy program, with special reference to the atomic bomb.
The Case of R v Dudley & Stephens 1) Briefly state what happened in R v Dudley & Stephens In the case of R v Dudley & Stephens there was a sailboat that was struck by a wave due to the wave the boat was sinking and there was 3 people on the lifeboat that people had to get on. Steven, Stephens and Parker. The 3 then went on to an island where they were basically stranded and had nowhere to go. They spent 20 days on the Island before coming to a decision that they wanted to perform a cannibalism act on Richard Parker the 17 year old. After 4 days the two then saw a rescue which was coming to get them, which was by a German sailing barque Montezuma which returned the men to Falmouth, Cornwall.
On the 6th of August 1945, the USA dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The atomic bomb, "Little Boy", was dropped from Enola Gay. On the first instant, 71,000 vanished immediately on the spot, and later on, another 49,000 died as a result of injuries and radiation. Three days later, on the 9th of August, the USA dropped a second bomb, "Fat Man", on Nagasaki. This time, 40,000 were killed instantly, and another 40,000 due to injuries and radiation.
“While being lifted onto an LST, he was almost dropped into the sea, having only been caught by the foot. After laying in the hold with hundreds of other wounded, he finally got a spot on the USS Samaritan.”(Standring Pg.5) Happily, the flag went up on Suribachi, just before Lucas was shipped off to Honolulu. Lucas went under the knife twenty two times before the doctors were finished. “Surprisingly, there are about 200 pieces of scrap iron still in him, some the size of .22-caliber bullets, which to this day, constantly set off airport metal detectors.”(Carpenter Pg.1) After close to seven months, Lucas was in good enough shape to be separated and put up for the Medal of Honor. At the time, the young man did not even know what it was, claimed “I went there to do one thing, and that was to
It was estimated that the A-bomb killed 70,000 people. Three days after the first bomb was dropped, The U.S. dropped a second and another 39,000 were killed. On August 14, Japan surrendered. On March 12, 1947 Truman Appointed congress to request 400 million in emergency aid for Turkey and Greece. In 1946 Truman had convinced the soviets planned to use Iran as the starting point for expansion into the Mediterranean B. Treaties and executive agreements he negotiated and/and or signed.
Was the U.S Justified in Bombing Japan? On December 7, 1941 the Japanese fighter pilots attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor(article 1). This surprise attack was done without a declaration of war. Pearl Harbor was hit by two waves of planes. The first wave, consisting of 134 bombers/fighters, was twenty-five minutes long and did much more damage than the second wave of flights.
Most hostages were held for ransom and released unharmed; but in 2010, at least 13 were injured and 8 were killed (Schranz, 2012, para 1) 4. ANALYSIS: Many innocent people have been put in danger over the last several years due to pirating. B. Body Paragraph Two: Armed robbery against ships in Gulf of Guinea needs to be stopped. 1.
In a matter of three hours the ship had split into two sections and had become complete submerged, slowing sinking to the bottom of the ocean, taking with it people, possessions and its unsinkable title. Seventy-three years later, in 1985, when Dr. Robert Ballard drove the research submarine ALVIN to the ocean floor the world finally was able to see the first photograph of the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean. Thus began the struggles of archaeology associated with the Titanic. Hundreds of people, archaeologists and enthusiasts alike, have taken the two and a half mile dive down to the ocean floor to view the Titanic. One of the main questions that has arisen from these visits and findings is whether or not the Titanic should be treated as an archaeological find or as a memorial site for the lives that were lost on April, 14, 1912.