To what extent was the Gulf of Tonkin the main reason why the US became involved in the Vietnam War between 1954 and 1964? Between 1954 and 1964 US involvement in Vietnam increased significantly about the time that the Gulf of Tonkin occurred and to an extent it can be seen that the Gulf of Tonkin was the main reason that the US got involved in Vietnam because shortly after the event happened‚ it lead to various battles between North and South Vietnam in which two élite battalions of South Vietnam
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Game of drones: A worldly Look into Unmanned Aerial Vehicles There have been over 800 women and children who have died in attacks from drone warfare. This is only a small fraction of the approximate 6000 total that has perished in the Middle East. These weapons are ones that are not only a regulating threat in the Pakistan areas‚ but also they are actually instilling fear in everyday civilians the live there. These men‚ women and children cannot even be seen in groups of five or more without
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Pearl Harbor On a sad day pearl harbor was attacked by the Japanese. Pearl harbor was located in Hawaii‚ december 7 1941(Arizona). The Japanese sent 33 ships and 350 planes and aircrafts. He sent the planes and aircraft north of oahu early in the morning(Pearl Harbor). The mission was to sink 8 battleships that were among 180 vessels anchored in pearl harbor. There was a ship named the Arizona and it was one of the 8 battleships. It was shot down by a 800 kilogram bomb(Arizona). This completely
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times higher than air) and is a viscous medium to move through. * The body of a fish is of a streamlined shape to move quickly in water. * The streamlined shape of a fish: * a) is long ellipse tapering to a point (shaped like a torpedo) in the direction of the flow of water. * b) reduces the drag (a drag is water resistance caused by friction between moving water and the body of the fish). * The general adaptive features in a fish for locomotion in water:
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Nobel ‚ and Andriette Nobel . Following various business failures‚ Nobel’s father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives. He invented modern plywood and started work on the "torpedo. The family factory produced armaments for the Crimean War but‚ had difficulty switching back to regular domestic production when the fighting ended and they became bankrupt. In 1859‚ Nobel’s father left his factory in the care of the second son
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and the Axis attempt to cut the flow of merchant shipping‚ which enabled Britain to keep fighting. The German’s wished to prevent the build-up of allied supplies in fear of being conquered in the part of Europe they occupied. Therefore‚ they used torpedos to sink convoys and merchant ships and then went under to water to ensure that there was no counter attack if the convoys were to be escorted by waships In order to find out the plans of the enemy‚ the British needed the wiring of the special naval
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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29‚ 1917 – November 22‚ 1963) was the 35th President of the United States‚ serving from 1961 until his death in 1963. After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II‚ Kennedy represented Massachusetts’ 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat. Thereafter‚ he served in the U.S. Senate. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S
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poisonous gas‚ as Katherine Wilson-Sammie recollects in Lights Out! A Canadian Nursing Sister’s Tale.[44] World War I was also the first war in which a clearly marked hospital ship evacuating the wounded was targeted and sunk by an enemy submarine or torpedo boat‚ an act that had previously been considered unthinkable‚ but which happened repeatedly (see
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World War II war hero Doris “Dorie” Miller was born in Waco‚ Texas on October 12‚ 1919‚ and played football at Waco’s A.J. Moore Academy. He dropped out of school at the age of 17 and enlisted in the US Navy in 1939 at the age of 20. He was a mess attendant‚ one of few positions available to African Americans at the time. Then he was eventually elevated to Cook‚ Third Class and was soldier of West Virginia at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii. He was working at the West Virginia on December 7‚ 1941‚ when
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grasp what was happening. In a tragic case of bad timing‚ the scheduled American B-17s and the U.S. enterprise arrived Pearl Harbor at the same time and were caught between enemy and friendly fire. Machine guns on Battleship Nevada opened fire on torpedo planes. High-level bombers began the run on battleship row and one of the easiest targets was the defenseless Oklahoma.8 The only thing people on board were expecting was sabotage. Amidst the frenzy American soldiers were still not sure who exactly
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