650 miles from Tokyo‚ Japan’s capitol. For America‚ it could be used as an emergency landing site for damaged bombers. For Japan‚ it could be used as an airbase for zeroes to intercept American bombing raids heading for Japan (iwojima.com). The battle for Iwo Jima may be the biggest battle in World War 2. America’s strategy for Iwo Jima was more brute force than tactical. American bombers bombed the volcanic island for 74 days. After 2 months‚ the destroyers opened fire. The destroyer’s cannons
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The USA employed planes such as B52 bombers to bombard the Ho Chi Minh trail in an attempt to obliterate all industrial and major transportation targets as fast as possible‚ with the hope that this would sink the morale of the Viet Cong and make the people afraid of the Americans; in turn disheartening them. However‚ although it managed to disrupt the flow of supplies‚ extensive aerial bombing did not prevent the North Vietnamese from moving hundreds of tons of war supplies per day down the Ho Chi
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Intro Have you ever wished that candy will fall out the sky? This happened to a group of german kids in 1948 on the other side of the berlin wall. gail halvorsen made these german kids happy and he symbolized hope for the children. Halvorsen thinked that‚ “what then of the future? I think you will agree with me that our children are our future. not just our children‚ but everyone’s children” said Halvorsen Gail Halvorsen’s Piloting Career Gail Halvorsen grew up on an small farm in Garland‚ Utah
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When you think of World War ll‚ what comes to your mind? Concentration camps‚ millions of dead soldiers and innocent people‚ or country turning against country? We like to forget about this terrible war which lasted from 1939-1945 and all the horrific consequences it had on the world. But do you ever take the time to think about how this war really ended? It obviously had to have taken a very powerful army or leader‚ but that wasn’t the case. What really caused this national turmoil to come to an
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USS Oklahoma‚ and the USS Utah – suffered irreparable damage. American submarine bases also survived the morning‚ as well as important fuel supplies and maintenance facilities. In the end‚ Nagumo was too conservative for canceling the third wave of bombers and refusing to search for the aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers. Hos fear of an American counterstrike allowed the American Pacific Fleet to
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bombs were used. Though he debated on whether to use the nuclear bombs‚ he had found out that the Axis Powers were developing nuclear weapons as well. Saving American lives was a main priority of Harry S. Truman. On August 6‚ 1945 an American B-29 bomber‚ the Enola Gay‚ lifted off from its airfield in the Marianas and headed toward the city of Hiroshima. The bomb killed thousands of people living in that area. A few days later another bomb exploded over the city of Nagasaki. These events were made
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What I Learned Since I Stopped Worrying and Studied the Movie: A Teaching Guide to Stanley Kubrick ’s Dr. Strangelove Dan Lindley‚ University of Notre Dame ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dan Lindley is assistant professor in international relations and security studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lindley worked for several arms control and research organizations in Washington‚ D.C. before receiving a Ph.D. from MIT. Lindley has published and spoken on U.N. peacekeeping‚ internal conflict‚ the Cyprus
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The Use of Criminal Profiling Criminal Profiling is a method of identifying the perpetrator of a crime based on an analysis of the nature of the offense and the manner in which it was committed. It most notably can be traced back to work done in the later part of the last century‚ and possibly even earlier in a variety of forms. There has been a definite growth since this early work‚ with many individuals doing a great deal of both research and practical work in criminal profiling. The investigative
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Principle of Double Effect An action that is good in itself that has two effects--an intended and otherwise not reasonably attainable good effect‚ and an unintended yet foreseen evil effect--is licit‚ provided there is a due proportion between the intended good and the permitted evil. When there is a clash between the two universal norms of "do good" and "avoid evil‚" the question arises as to whether the obligation to avoid evil requires one to abstain from a good action in order to prevent a
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Military Technology Technology in the military has greatly increased strength and eased the ranking among world powers and effected the development of new military weapons. The term "Survival of the fittest" means that the strong will succeed but the meek will not‚ this is the case with military technology. The U.S. has the best technology in the world‚ therefore we are the highest military power. Technology is a very important part of warfare. Technology is driven by the military. The army’s
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