During the Pre-invasion of Okinawa on 24 March 1945 the Indianapolis bombarded the beach defenses for seven days. Raining down 8in shells opened the door to get troops on the ground. On the morning of 31 March a Japanese fighter was spotted in its way to the Indianapolis. Quickly the ships 20mm gun opened fire but by the time the enemy plane was shot down it was to late. The Japanese plane dropped a bomb that blew a hole in the keel flooding nine compartments.
| As the least experience officer on the plane, Sweeney’s decision without other’s knowledge could be unwise and led to mission failure. | 2. Sweeney should take some advice from other members, but not all of it. | More information is provided by experts, which can lead him to make better decisions. | Advice
Michael Squillacote 9/28/11 Professor Blum Business paper Challenger Shuttle The Challenger space shuttle was set off to launch on January 28th 1987. This turned into a tragic day for NASA and the United States. At 11:38 am Challenger took of from the launch pad. Everything was going smoothly until 73 seconds into the flight the shuttle disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean killing seven astronauts. There are a few different theories on what went wrong to the shuttle.
Henry Pickman 9th Grade English News Story U.S Troops storm the volcanic beaches of Iwo Jima! On February 19th, 1945, the USMC (United States Marine Corps) and the Navy Seals attacked the Japanese island Iwo Jima with over seventy thousand troops. These marines and Navy Seals consisted of the Third, Fourth and Fifth divisions. Many Marines stated that “this battle was going to be no sweat”, but had the Marines known about the American bombings on the island had not even come close to putting a dent in the defenses or lowering the morale of the troops, they would have thought very differently. 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.
Eric Dubin HIS-356 June 2015 You’re being watched On September 11, 2001, a shocking revelation surged throughout the United States of America: We are vulnerable to terrorist acts on our own soil. This sentiment had not been felt for some time, and arguable not at all in the same way. The last time in history Americans had been kill by an opposing military force on U.S. soil, had not been since the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese pilots on December 7, 1941. It was this attack on Pearl Harbor that led to the United States’ entry into World War II. Similarly, through provocation of the attack from Al Qaeda on September 11, 2001, the United States entered into the Afghanistan War in October 2001.
They are placed in the plane’s tail and are constructed to be very durable- they can withstand 1800-degree heat for up to 30 minutes, which is far more than what they would have been through in the World Trade Center crashes. All of the devices from Flight 77 and Flight 93 were recovered. On Flight 77 only the data recorder was salvaged and the voice recorder was too damaged to retrieve information from. Flight 93’s voice recorder survived and the data recorder was damaged beyond recovery. The FBI reported to the Commission that none of the devices were recovered from the two planes that hit the World Trade Center.
I would recommend it to anyone that would want to get a glimpse of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism and the events that led to the 9/11 attacks. I would not recommend it to anyone that was directly affected by 9/11 they might be still emotional. I found myself crying while reading his story about that day and I only had an indirect connection to that day. I think the purpose of this book was not to point out the inadequacies of law enforcement but to show that even though they were doing their jobs they had difficulties beyond their control that prevented them for from doing what they needed to do to do their job to the best of their abilities. This book is also an eye opener for anyone that did not live through or old enough to remember the attacks discussed.
The group identified themselves as a part of the Palestinian Organization, Black September. Black September was a Palestinian terrorist group that emerged after the Jordanian Civil War. Black September had carried out other missions, including the assassination of Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tall in Cairo, November 1971, however the incident in Munich was by far the most dramatic. The terrorists informed the authorities of their requests. They wanted 234 Palestinians released from an Israeli jail, and they wanted safe passage to Egypt.
Airports were not security-free but at the same time they did not feel like entrances to maximum security prisons. Just to put things in the right perspective, in the United States, before 2001, there was no dedicated organization or government agency that looked after and managed security for air travel. I found this hard to believe as I had never realized that airport security was a relatively low-priority issue. It was not until September 11, 2001, that the Transportation Security Administration was created. This change brought TSA officers, highly advanced metal detecting equipment, sniffer dogs and sometimes
In 2010 is was found that a North Korean torpedo had been fired (on purpose) at a South Korean naval ship. Only eight months later North Korea fired 170 artillery shells and rockets at Yeonpyeong Island, where the South Korean military was stationed, then South Korea sent fighter jets to fight back(it is only human nature to get revenge). Around 15 people were killed and 50 were wounded. This is an example of an on-going grudge that only leads to more violence. Sometimes you do not need violence to get something done.