9/11 2001 affected Americans because it was is the most tragic day in American history. Members of Al Qaudea, hijacked American Air Line’s airplanes, and crashed them into many buildings such as the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and were possibly going toward the White House. September 11 showed America that we’re not invincible and we need to expect the unexpected, to prepare for the future, and to be ready for anything. Also, fire fighters lost their lives do to the terrorist attack by saving others. Finally, it helped Americans come together and realize that every person in America was affected by the attack.
“The Japanese had more than 2,000,000 troops in the home lands, and were training millions of irregulars” pg. 168 Readings in United States History. President Truman was determined to find a way to have Japan surrender from the war. Truman held a conference on June 18, 1945 where he would be discussing with the chiefs to take a look at different views of approaching the Japanese. After multiple ideas along with deep thought, Truman along with the chiefs decided the most efficient, least costly and less bloody approach would to be dropping the atomic bombs on the Japanese home land.
The passengers were unable to get into the cockpit so they tried using the food cart to open the cockpit door. When the remaining hijackers realized that they were gonna be overthrown they went with the tip of the plane into the ground. One of the passengers aboard who knew how to fly a plane made an attempt which failed to bring the plane back up the 40 passengers and the 4 hijackers were all dead after the crash. The movie United 93 was very accurate on what actually went on with Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. Some of the actors in the film were American Airlines employees.
Zeppelins in World War I Zeppelins in World War I Sophie Bartlett World History 3/20/12 Sophie Bartlett World History 3/20/12 et Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin Who Created the First Zeppelin? Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a retired German army general. He came up with a genius idea for an airship that can swiftly drop bombs over enemy lines while terrorizing the citizens of enemy countries with shadows big enough to cast shadows over cities. This fearsomely large shadow was cast by a 420 foot long Zeppelin. Von Zeppelin started constructing his first airship, the LZ-1, in June 1898.
It was exactly as was projected. Right through the northern pass and hitting Wheeler Airfield and taking out the airplanes there. They also hit Hickman Airfield on the run into Pearl Harbor crippling more planes as they started their attack from the skies on the fleet in the waters. The backside of the island at Kaneohe Bay was also hit on a second run. During these attacks the use of the shallow running torpedoes took the sailors by surprise for sure and the Battleships began to take damage the horror of the day just seemed to get more vivid.
“12 O’Clock High” is a perfect example of how important these different types of leadership traits are used in the most stressful types of work environments. “Twelve O'Clock High” is an American motion picture film about a United States Army Air Crew which flew bombing missions against Nazi Germany during the beginning of American involvement in World War II. The film starts when Major Harvey Stovall begins to have flashbacks of his involvement in the 918th Bomb Group during the Second World War. Colonel Keith Davenport is the commanding officer of the bomb group that is suffering massive casualties, 918th, and in turn has a very low morale. A stressed Colonel Davenport starts to become an ineffective leader and General Patrick Pritchard, the ranking General, notices this during a conversation at the beginning of the film.
The Kamikaze were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible. Kamikaze pilots would attempt to crash their aircraft into enemy ships—planes often laden with explosives, bombs, torpedoes and full fuel tanks. The aircraft's normal functions (to deliver torpedoes or bombs or shoot down other aircraft) were put aside, and the planes were converted to what were essentially manned missiles in an attempt to reap the benefits of greatly increased accuracy and payload over that of normal bombs. The goal of crippling as many Allied ships as possible, particularly aircraft carriers, was considered critical enough to warrant the combined sacrifice of pilots and aircraft. These attacks, which began in October 1944, followed several
We kept going east to Honolulu. As we closed in, enemy antiaircraft fire began to concentrate on us. With dark, black clouds blew up next to us we dove down and dropped 2 bombs. As they fell I laid on the cockpit floor watching them until I saw 2 clouds of smoke come up from the carrier. I yelled “Hit!” to my other members.
One of the exciting aspects of WW1 was the use of different types of weapons, the main weapon that every soldier had, another weapon was the gases, poison gas which caused blindness and death by choking, mustard gas which killed you instantly if breathed, they stopped using mustard gas though as a lot of soldiers died from it as if they threw it and the wind went the opposite direction they mostly killed themselves! The zeppelin was a airship which was used by the Germans in bombing raids, but were not used as were easily shot in sky. The aircraft was then made to drop bombs and
Giao Tran Mr. Frey English 4 AP/Period 4 17 May 2011 The Matrix Films on the Nature of Humanity Neo crouches down, getting ready to launch himself into the black crying sky. His thick, graceful cloak dances violently behind him as Neo propels himself at the speed of a jet plane through the rain. Then suddenly, time slows down. With one arm outstretched in front of him and one arm bent at his side, his human flesh pounds each water droplet after water droplet, creating a force so strong that his fist leaves a path of waterless air wherever it travels. (The Matrix Revolutions) At the moment of its release, audiences were stunned by the Wachowski brothers’ visually mesmerizing presentation of computer graphics of the Matrix trilogy.