warfare was introduced‚ such ships as the corvette were popular‚ and the corvette was mostly used for shipping ammunition to Europe from North America. Also‚ submarines proved deadly as they were out of radar and carried deadly bombs such as the torpedo. <br> <br>New techniques had to be used in WW2 because of the updated technology. Techniques such as ’mouseholing’ and lightning warfare’ were some of the new techniques used. Mouseholing is when the soldiers would blow a hole in the wall of a building
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prey. "These owls don ’t just pounce‚ the plunge" (Warren‚ p.78). First‚ they locate their prey with the help of their large facial disk that funnels sound to their ears. Then‚ they tuck their extremely sharp hooked-shaped claws under their chin and torpedo headfirst towards the ground to snatch their next meal. In winter‚ when there is snow on the ground‚ the owl plunges into the snow. After a successful dive‚ it wiggles out from below the surface of the snow and takes its food to a safe spot to eat
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Here the submarine was loaded with a state-of-the-art Kaiten torpedo‚ which was contained 3‚200 pounds of explosives‚ had an underwater speed of 30 knots‚ and most uniquely carried a man‚ its was essentially a suicide bomb. When Hashimoto left Hirao he and crew roamed the Philippine Sea for a week searching for an
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Modern History Essay Area of Study: Pearl Harbor Question: Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor and what were the consequences that Japan faced? On the dawn of the 7th of December 1941‚ the unfolding of the strategic surprise attack on Pearl Harbor which had been planned in secrecy several months in advance by the empire of Japan took place and was known and remembered by many as the day of infamy (Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ December 7th 1941). The surprise attack executed by the Japanese military
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were terrified that little Jack was going to die. When he was in college he went to harvard. Second‚ he was in the navy and he became a lieutenant. When john f. Kennedy was in the navy he was assigned to the south pacific as commander of a patrol torpedo boat‚ the PT-109. Lt. Kennedy had a crew of twelve men whose mission was to stop japanese ships from delivering supplies to their soldiers. On the night of August 2‚ 1943 Kennedy and his crew were patrolling the waters looking for a enemy ships to
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Do you know the incredible creature that can smell blood in the water up to 3 miles away! It is the Great White Shark. In this paper I will be discussing 3 major topics about Great White Sharks. The topics are hunting‚ characteristics‚ and survival. These topics not only tie together why Great White Sharks are such fierce and intelligent predator‚ but more importantly why they are the ruler of the ocean. In this paragraph I will be discussing skills that Great Whites uses while hunting. What they
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Discuss the key symbols in the film (like the white whale); what do they represent? Does the film deal with class issues? In watching the movie 2010:Moby Dick‚ I found a lot of religious symbolism surrounding Moby Dick ‚ the colors black and white‚ and the depths and shallows of the ocean. Moby Dick‚ the white whale‚ appears to represent the unknown‚ specifically in spirituality. He is the epitome of an unknowable God to everyone in the movie‚ with the exception of Ahab‚ who quotes that “…he’s
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was developed to redesign the Navy’s budget‚ allowing the United States to provide increased protection for their new markets. The new naval budget entailed new construction for an array of war supplies such as: gunboats‚ battleships‚ cruisers‚ and torpedo boats. Creating this new and improved navy allowed the United States to effectively fight their enemies at
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Japanese would be in the pacific. Macarthur did not have the resource to build a force capable of holding off the Japanese. The breaking point of Macarthur’s army in the Philippines was the attack on Pearl Harbor. Under cover of night‚ a U.S. Navy torpedo boat spirited Macarthur and his family from Corregidor to the southern Philippines.
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In 1963‚ the US supported a military coup‚ which murdered Diem and put a military government in South Vietnam. In August 1964‚ sailors on the American warship USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin claimed they had been attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution‚ allowing the American President Lyndon B. Johnson to take direct military action in retaliation. In February 1965‚ the Vietcong attacked American air bases and killed American soldiers
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