In the company photograph of the 130th Chemical Company the three friends are sitting together shoulder to shoulder‚ just as they joined the Army together‚ trained together‚ and then stationed together in London‚ where on July 3‚ 1944‚ died together. Close friends while living in Portland‚ Robert H. Cook‚ Philip J. Conley‚ and Chester R. Peterson‚ joined the Army and left for training together in January‚ 1943. They were assigned to the 130th Chemical Company and sent to Camp Sibert‚ Alabama
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The Japanese officers had sat down to eat when they realized one of their own was gone. One of them left in search for “Gandhi”. He was found sitting‚ shirtless‚ in a dark room‚ planning on how to destroy Pearl Harbor using planes and torpedoes. I do believe this person‚ along with his role‚ existed. He was portrayed as slightly insane in the movie‚ but extremely smart. Yamamoto Isoroku was the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. Before the declaration of war‚ he did not feel as though
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The Greatest Country in the world? Growing up in the United States‚ Americans are always told that the red‚ white‚ and blue is the greatest nation in the world. Americans beam with pride‚ at every sporting event from little kids baseball to professional football‚ as the national anthem is played. In 2011 a survey reported that 80% of Americans think it’s the greatest country in the world. Is America the greatest country in the world (American Exceptionalism)? Was it ever the greatest country? To
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Pompeii Essay In the year 79 CE Mt. Vesuvius of Pompeii erupted. The eruption was so catastrophic that it destroyed cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Pompeii‚ which is also known as “The Garden of the Fugitives”‚ is an important part of Ancient Roman history‚ because it has shown historians a vision of the Ancient Roman society. Historians now believe that the people of Pompeii died by an explosion of gas and hot mud brutally eliminated the residents. Before this‚ people believed that everyone died
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Robert Oppenheimer was a physics professor at the University of California‚ Berkeley. Oppenheimer was a key part of the Manhattan project. Oppenheimer was expressing his regret. Oppenheimer decided to try and change the subject to international cooperation. But Truman changed it back to talking about the military building more atomic bombs. Robert Oppenheimer’s decision to express regret was a personal responsibility‚ national responsibility‚ and responsibility of other groups. By choosing to steer
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When talking about WW2 and Japan‚ something that comes to mind often is the atomic bomb. Some people say it was a good thing‚ as it ended one of the worst war in history. however‚ some say that it was wrong to drop a bomb of a country that was on the verge of surrender. Proof of this statement‚ this essay will tell you. The atomic bomb was something that helped America win the war. However‚ it wasn’t something that our country absolutely needed. The United States did an awful
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United States military dropped the first atomic bomb as an act of war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 3 days later‚ the second and last to date‚ atomic bomb was dropped onto Nagasaki‚ Japan. Under the direction of President Harry Truman‚ the atomic bombs were dropped in response to the disregarded ultimatum demanding the surrender of Japan in World War II. 150‚000 to 246‚000 people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki due to the blast and in the following months due to injury and radiation sickness
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suffering will be present. The poem ‘No More Hiroshimas’ focuses on the reminders and memorials of the atomic bomb while ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ describes what war is like for an ordinary soldier. These poems have a lot in common‚ but at the same time they have their differences. The use of diction by both poets allows readers to understand that war is a terrible experience for people‚ and just as painful for people who are remembering it. In ‘No More Hiroshimas’‚ James Kirkup writes about how the memorials
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The United States decided to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. This bombing created devastation and death that the world had never seen before. The use of the atomic bombs has been a topic of intense debate for years following the bombing. Several reasons for such outcry pertaining to the use of the atomic bomb were the moral dilemmas behind the bombing‚ the mass destruction caused by the bombing‚ the horrible physical and emotional effects on the citizens of Japan‚ and strained
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America was justified in dropping the first atomic bomb but not the second. The reasons as to why I believe this will be explored in this essay. Near the end of WW2‚ two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. The first on the 6th of August 1945 on Hiroshima and the second on the 9th August on Nagasaki. This was carried out under the order of Harry S. Truman‚ the American president at the time. In Europe the war was mainly over‚ but in Asia Japan still prevailed. America was contemplating a full scale
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