We make it to the location and we are just hovering above it, and there is sand everywhere I can’t see anything. There are bullets flying everywhere and the pilot moves the plane a little too far and we are couple blocks away from our location, and I don’t know what to say when the pilot asks me what to do. I make a decision that I am not so sure of, and I say to just drop us off here, everyone starts to get off, and I am the last one to exit the plane. When I am going down I see a body and my heart sinks, I am thinking did someone die already? When i get on the ground I see it's the kid Blackburn…
Boom! The sound snaps us all to life, ensnaring our senses and shaking every fiber of our beings. In less than ten seconds we're all on our feet and almost in complete chaos. I snatch up my gun and the first few of us rush out of the barracks to find the colonel for orders. Boom! This time the blast is right behind us and our barracks bursts into a roaring wall of flames. The blast sends us falling face first to the ground. All of our fellow soldiers, our friends, were still inside and now the building is crumbling in a massive inferno. "We have to move!" Chris says, leaping to his feet, and the three of us run through camp and locate the colonel. "Grab a gun and form up on the coast line. We don't need to fight on two fronts." He orders us.…
picture you can see the movement of the people running, falling and the bombing sounds of gun shots.…
The allies were heading toward the enemy ready to attack on June 6, 1944. Most of the German general had the time off including General Erwin Rommel. General Rommel was one of the best German generals who was known as “ The Desert Fox”. Allies dropped bombs on the french cows killing food supply and the Americans landed on Omaha Beach. German defenses were dying and tactics were killing the Nazi Army. The whole operation had been perfectly planned for the allies. The Allied troops made it and on their way to Berlin making it a beginning to and…
On the night of August 18th, almost 240 ships left British ports, carrying Allied troops to a raid that was supposed to gather intelligence, destroy German-controlled coastal defences, and show that capturing a port was possible. The next morning, the attack started at 5:00AM. Things started going wrong from the beginning. Ships carrying the No. 3 Commando operation ran into a German convoy that alerted coastal defences of an attack, and ended up being scattered. Most of the troops from those ships never reached shore, but the few who did were almost immediately overwhelmed. Two kilometres east of Dieppe, troops from the Royal Regiment of Canada approached Puys, a small seaside village. Because they were behind schedule, they lost the advantages of the cover of night and the element of surprise. Most of the soldiers were shot coming out of the boats, and were killed before they even hit the water. The few who made it to the wired seawall were forced to surrender after a few hours of pointless resistance. There where three platoons of reinforcements from the “Black Watch”, or the Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, who suffered the greatest loss of life by a Canadian battalion in a single day in the entire war. 200 men were killed at the scene, 20 died later from their wounds, only 33 made it back to…
Once I completed the deployment line, I reached the holding area, unexpectedly the walls and ceiling started convulsing violently. A First Lieutenant endeavored to detain a large group of people confined to a small room; however, we decided to evacuate the building. Some people jumped out the windows; however, the…
The media has presented this story in many different ways such as on the internet it was very down to the point no pictures, just text. It was very complex online. Whereas in the newspaper it there was less to read and more pictures of what was happening. The pictures they used was the soldiers packing there belongings and returning home. The media showed this story differently…
Early in the morning 60% of the airborne soldiers were loaded into planes. 40% of the soldiers came on the 2 day but do to aircraft problems and also due to some being shot down not all the troops could get to the battle. They dropped in the daylight and most troops made to the ground. One solider from the 101st said that. When we hit the ground it was a mess but Captain Davis told got us into fire teams and we marched to our objective. When we got there we quickly overran the town and the captain took a house on the hill as a command post. When the captain was shot he said to the medic “Hurry up their gaining on us.”…
Standing for hours, watching more hangings, this all made me so sad. I haven’t seen my family since we got here. I hope they are safe. I hope their conditions are better than mine. We headed back to the barracks, where a man with a green triangle on his uniform made us do exercises before we could go…
I was running through a forest with the sounds of our country's foreign enemies at my tail. It was especially dangerous for me because I skipped the armor in battle preparation due to my purpose in combat. I was know as a…
It is harsh in the trenches there were many to many rats that ate the corpse that lay on the ground. When it's raining we go inside. We pass the time by playing cards we bet only couple cents when the rain passes we hear gunshots shells getting closer 50 yards 40 yards 30 yards 20 yard they get closer as we prepare to fight then a shell hits about 11 yards from me the recruits scramble out of the trench they get shot down sarg called them flies. 2 hours pass we get hit with mustard gas we are forced out of the trench as I put my gas mask on, sarg ordered us to fight as we see ahead a tank and men with flamethrowers…
When the war ended, I assumed I would be shipped back home to Sheffield. To think, I left as a boy and came back as a grown man. I felt as though I should have been excited to go home, but the war had gone on too long to imagine a life without it. The soldier life had been indoctrinated into us.…
It was December 24, 1918 in the trenches of France. I was looking around the trenches at my comrades. The desperation on each face was heart wrenching. We had not had meat in over a month. The snow was a foot thick blanketing the entire landscape. The trench look like it was on fire with the breath of smoke leaving each tired mans mouth.…
In the Academy it is imperative to learn from all of your peers in class. I learned becoming more proficient in briefing I will be able to communicate clear and concise to my audience. It is important to practice beforehand and talk about the key points instead of filler words to prolong the conversation. It is very important to communicate clearly both orally and written as a military Intelligence senior leader. I will continue to challenge others and myself to be the best at everything they do in the military.…
As the day went on and we remaining students were still in school, we were all terrified. I was very afraid for my father who worked on a local military installation. Finally, by 4th period I heard my name come over the speaker letting me know that I was being checked out and my father of all people was there to get me, it was such a relief. We went home to only do what everyone had been doing all day: to watch the news. The next month was very stressful for the entire country. People…