Harbor was led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida. Wave one consisted of 183 fighters such as bombers and torpedo bombers. The attack started at 7:55 a.m. wave number two consisted of 170 planes an attacked Pearl Harbor at 8:54 a.m. during the 2 waves submarines were also attacking Pearl Harbor. The Japanese fighters took off from aircraft carries Akaga‚ Kaga‚ Hiryu‚ Soryu‚ Zuikaku and Shokaku. Why was Pearl Harbor a significant part of the
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Empire‚ and Bulgaria. In WWI‚ the Germans used unrestricted submarine warfare‚ they declared the location between British isles was a war zone‚ in turn they attacked any merchant ships or naval ships‚ this is the ultimate reasoning for the Convoy System. The Convoy System did not wholly begin until May 10‚ 1917 a Convoy System sailed to Great Britain from Gibraltar with no losses. The Convoy System saved many U.S.
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THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY (VERSION – 1) INTRODUCTION 1. By any ordinary standard‚ they were hopelessly outclassed. They had no battleships‚ the enemy eleven. They had eight cruisers‚ the enemy twenty-three. They had three carriers (one of them crippled)‚ the enemy had eight. Their shore defences included guns from the turn of the century. They knew little of war. None of the Navy pilots on one of the carriers had ever been in combat‚ nor had any of the army fliers of the marines. Seventeen
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because trade became close to impossible after the British navy blockaded Germany and cut the cable between the Germany and the United States. Germany came back from this with a new weapon called the submarine‚ launching surprise attacks to disturb trade between Britain and the United States. This submarine warfare soon created bad blood in the German–American
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to be carrying weapons and ammo. However‚ the fact of whether or not they were carrying weapons is still debatable today. German officials ordered that the Lusitania be shot down. Although the captain of the ship was warned that there were German submarines in the area‚ he assured everyone that there would be no danger. When a second warning followed and was commanded to take action‚ he simply stopped the boat. A torpedo was shot from the German vessel‚ hitting the Lusitania. About 126 Americans died
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There are twenty men trapped at the bottom of the sea in a submarine. Help will not arrive for a week. There is only enough oxygen left for about three days‚ but the oxygen will last five men for a week. What should the captain decide‚ and how? Five men were picked to live and the rest were killed without knowing. Considering all the facts‚ Lieutenant-Commander Oram should be innocent. The men were in the submarine when the explosion went off‚ and damaged the ship. The explosion
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The American Civil War began April 12‚ 1861‚ and did not end until a gruesome four years later‚ on May 9‚ 1865. This war divided America into two groups: the Union and the Confederacy. During this time period‚ many new concepts and ideas from both sides were thought of and brought to life. Some examples of these new concepts were in an area such as naval and ground warfare‚ medicine‚ weaponry‚ transportation‚ and photography. Technology played a very important role in the American Civil War
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into the role as the acting Commanding Officer (A/CO) of a submarine. The submarine has been the victim of a torpedo attack and the engineering compartment is filling with water. Three of the crew attempted to stop the flood and are stuck inside. If the water tight hatch to the engineering compartment does not get closed‚ resulting in trapping the three men‚ then the submarine will sink to such a level that the pressure will crush the submarine and kill all on board. If they close the hatch then the
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unchecked aggression and unrestricted submarine warfare threatened the United States‚ which gave sufficient reason to declare war on Germany. Speculation exists on whether the United States entered the war on such a noble premise‚ instead many suggest that the motives were economic. In the years of America’s neutrality‚ Germany had angered the United States with over aggressive war tactics. Two ships carrying American passengers were sunk by German submarines‚ the Lusitania and the Sussex. After
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statement and the close my paper. Section B - Summary of Evidence For more than a week eighty two ships of the United States Navy steamed through the blue waters of the South pacific. Planes from three aircraft carriers scouted for Japanese submarines hoping to spot the
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