Other than the chance discovery, another factor that held back Fleming was government funding. After Fleming published his results, the government wasn’t interested in developing it because they thought there was no need for it so with no funding, Fleming decided abandon his research. After his discovery it took Florey and Chain another 10 years to read about it and start the research. At this time, WW2 had broke out which deprived the government of a lot of money as many factories and other places were being bombed, hence Florey and Chain also didn’t get any funding from the british government because penicillin required a range of equipment and people which the government couldn’t provide. Penicillin only came to Britain after it had been mass produced in USA which took another 3 years.
We have already acknowledged that Mr. Allison was not very well suited for the job. There were other issues that include technical, ethical, legal, contractual and other project management related issues. Technical Issue: The technical issue is simple, the project simply did not test well. STI simply required all components to operate effectively and efficiently between temperature ranges of -65 degrees F to 145 degrees F (The Orion Shield Project, 2003). SEC failed at this due to the fact that their product will not operate above 130 degrees F, and that the requirements would not be able to be met without different materials (The Orion Shield Project, 2003).
The troops also didn’t know about the vast expanse of tunnel systems under the island, because of these tunnels, combat between the Americans and Japanese would not be straightforward. Iwo Jima was claimed to be the most heavily defended island in WW II. When the Americans landed on the shore of Iwo Jima with their amphibious vehicles, there was complete silence, but as soon as they got fifty
It made no sense to send him all the way back, so they simply assigned him to a combat unit headed for Hawaii and future action in the Pacific. “While in Hawaii, during the spring of 1943, his age was discovered, but he managed to talk his way out of discharge. He was re-assigned to drive a truck at the base depot for the next eighteen months.”(Pace Pg.2) As time passed, Lucas became more and more frustrated, clearly seeing the end of the war in sight. The now sixteen year old Marine, went AWOL from this base as well and “on January 9, 1945, he climbed aboard a shuttle boat that was taking Marines returning from liberty back to their ships in the harbor. He boarded the USS Deuel, a troop ship, and became a stowaway.”(Pace
This war is infamous for its long artillery bombardment that eliminated any surprise but failed to destroy the German barbed wire. Many people call it the ‘bloodiest day in British military history’ but was it a complete disaster? When the battle began, the British army believed no man or barbed wire could have survived 1,750,000 shells being fired. However, as the British troops went forward in long lines, they were mown down by German machine guns that British artillery had failed to suppress. Even when this plan kept on failing, the commander-in-chief, Douglas Haig, refused to change his plan, which is what made the start of
This attempt to colonize in the new world was ruled a failed attempt because everyone died and got sick. But in the second attempt in 1586 Raleigh got smarter and sent John White as the leader of this future colony. Along with White, Raleigh sent 117 people including men, woman, and children to help with the natural population boom. Things were going great until a shortage of supplies became a problem. Since they were short of supplies John White goes back to London to get more supplies but gets caught up in a war for about 3 years.
If I had talked to the cops, nothing would have been wrong. Instead I ran, and I wasted the time of the cops when they could have been dealing with other serious things. I had the cops looking for me for around two hours, and they had no idea why I ran, so I am sure they were expecting the worst. I am lucky that the cops treated me the way they did. They had no idea who they were dealing with, but I imagine that they had to think it was someone dangerous because I ran.
They prepared to storm the island on April 1st, 1945. The Japanese were really quite underdressed; they had a lot of gap to try and cover to avoid being absolutely slaughtered by the Americans. The Japanese found a way to keep up with America and even inflict very heavy losses of American lives: the dehumanization of Japanese soldiers’ lives. “Once it crossed the rubicon of accepting state-organized suicides as a legitimate military tactic, the Japanese commanders learned that it might we regain some of it’s lost ability to strike the Americans and perhaps stave off unconditional surrender” (Hanson 36). With all regard for life being dismissed, it now became a simple task of killing as many American soldiers as possible.
Other then the fact that the British had an awful tactic, they did not have the right weaponry. Haig was a strong believer in Calvary, and was skeptical of the newer machinery. When the British walked across no mans land the Germans just mowed them down with their machine guns. At the end of this battle there was 400 000
The bombardment was to end and the invasions begin at the same time. The bombers finished on time, but the landing craft ran late, giving the Germans time to recuperate. When the British I and XXX Corps arrived on Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches at 0700, they met heavy resistance. At Gold Beach, the British 50th division also encountered heavy fire, but they made their way off the beach within a few hours. Offshore reefs caused many problems at Juno beach.