Do you know why World War 2 occurred? This is how it all began… Pearl Harbor was the devastating attack on December 7th‚ 1941. This battle was the importance of the Americans in World War 2.The attack on Pearl Harbor‚ also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor‚ the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters‚ and Operation Z during planning‚ was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. To start
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15 feet (4.6 meters) in length‚ though specimens exceeding 20 feet (6 meters). - Great White Shark meat is not recommended for human consumption because it has very high mercury levels. - Great White Sharks are streamlined swimmers. They have a torpedo shaped body with a pointed snout. - Great White Sharks try to avoid fighting for food. When there is only enough food for one‚ they have a tail-slapping contest. The sharks swim past each other‚ each slapping the surface of the water with their tails
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Extra Credit for Accounting II By: Grace Lindley ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room is the story of one of history’s greatest business scandals‚ in which top executives of America’s seventh largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. Based on the best-selling book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Fortune reporters Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind‚ and featuring insider accounts and
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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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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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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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effort to survive the attack exponentially more arduous. Because the navy hastened the ship off to sea‚ the abundance of emergency equipment such as water‚ lifeboats‚ and life jackets were not provided. Such items are essential for situations like torpedo attacks. The lack of responsibility‚ by the navy‚ for such undemanding things contributed greatly to the deaths of hundreds of
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