The Battle of Britain The Battle of Britain was one of the main events that occurred in WW2. The battle began when France had surrendered to the Nazis. Because France had surrendered, Britain was the last unconquered territory in West Europe. The Nazi’s were on the French coast waiting to invade Britain. They hoped the Luftwaffe (the German air force) could smash morale, radar installations and air power before they could sail there troops across the channel to gain control.
Source one provides evidence of the tremendous damage caused by the bombing of Darwin. “In the first attack, which began just before 10.00 am, heavy bombers pattern-bombed the harbour and town; dive bombers escorted by Zero fighters then attacked shipping in the harbour, the military and civil aerodromes, and the hospital at Berrimah. The attack ceased after about 40 minutes. The second attack, which began an hour later, involved high altitude bombing of the Royal Australian Air Force base at Parap which lasted for 20–25 minutes. The two raids killed at least 243 people and between 300 and 400 were wounded.
Todd Moy. I learned that 66 of these African American airmen were killed in action and 33 were kept as (POW) prisoners of war. It was made clear throughout the book that the Tuskegee airmen made it possible for African Americans of today to fly in combat. It was obvious that the airmen faced racial discriminations both at home and overseas. While researching I learned 104 African American airmen were arrested for protesting while denied rights to used military facilities.
This was not the first time they had tried to attack the world trade centre. In 1993 February 26th a truck bomb exploded in a parking garage below the world trade centre. Six people were killed and more than 1000 people where injured. A Pakistani was eventually captured and convicted for the bombing as were several Egyptians. The FBI believe that these terrorists plan was too explode one of the towers and make it lean and fall onto the other tower to destroy them both to try and kill and total of 250,000 civilian deaths.
It happened on an 8 square mile island that took the mane, Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima, par 1). American troops were told that their goal was to take the airfield of Iwo Jima for the future bombing of Tokyo. The Japanese were assigned to kill ten American soldiers before they had the right to die. The battle lasted from February 19, 1945 to March 26, 1945, which was a little over a month,. In thirty-six days there were nearly twenty-six thousand US casualties, almost seven thousand American troops were KIA (Hama, Erksine and Williams 98).
base in northern Afghanistan. The mission, approved by President Obama on Friday, had been set for early Sunday local time but had to be delayed because of poor weather. Unlike 1980's doomed mission to rescue the American diplomats held hostage in Iran, by all accounts, the strike on bin Laden's fortress in Abbott bad went smoothly. Navy Seal Team 6 which reportedly played the key role in the assault was created following the disaster that left eight Americans dead at Desert One. About two dozen Seals and CIA enablers swooped down on the compound in a pair of choppers, leaving the second pair lurking nearby in case they were needed.
September 11, 2001, is a date in which will be remembered in the minds of Americans forever. Four commercial airlines were hijacked. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the building, and also killing an estimated 343 firefighters. The hijackers also crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after some of its passengers and flight crew were said to attempt to retake control of the plane.
(Rolfsen, 2013). They faced an Iraqi air force of 750 combat planes, and 200 transports spread across 54 airfields. Protecting Iraqi targets were more than 9,000 anti-aircraft sites (Rolfsen, 2013). Top priority in the air war went to destroying Iraq's air force, anti-aircraft and command and communication capabilities, as well as other military targets in Iraq and Kuwait (Miles, 2010). The Coalition needed the
The incident happened around 2 A.M. when three of the steamship’s four broilers exploded; the Sultana could legally carry 376 people, but due to bribery from army officers the Sultana carried six times more than the legal limit. To this day the Sultana lay at the bottom of the Mississippi river covered in mud and grime.
The Japanese spent many careful months planning the people, date, time and outline for the attack on Pearl Harbor. On September 6th Japan made the decision to go to war with America “as needed” at the Imperial Conference in Tokyo (Rice Attack 19). Yamamoto, the Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet, was reluctant to launch an attack on America. He had gone to Harvard and served as a naval attaché in Washington D.C. and liked America. He had a great respect of the American industry and believed in its potential.