...Myth & Legend—Texan Doris Miller Shot Down Numerous Japanese Planes During Pearl Harbor Raid- The story of Doris Miller has been glamorized in movies, but few know the genuine story of the Black cook who became a hero during the attack on Pearl Harbor. This myth is about Texan Doris Miller who was born on October 12, 1919 in Waco, Texas. When he was 20 years old he enlisted in the United States Navy in 1939. He served as a Mess Attendant, Third Class and became the ship’s cook when he was transferred to the USS West Virginia battleship. Doris Miller without intention joined the pantheon of legendary Texas military figures when, despite lacking formal gunning training because he was an African-American, he kept an eye on a deck firearm abroad the battleship West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and began firing away. The real number of planes that Doris demolished is a matter of guess. The confusion surrounding the certainties of the occurrence started ten days after the government finished a news power outage in Hawaii. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, during an inspection tour through disabled base make an effort to lift national assurance by making an unclear remark to announce he received stating that a sailor abroad one of the battleship docked at Pearl Harbor without any help impacted a Japanese torpedo plane out of the sky. Also, another unknown source later revealed that a mysterious African-American mess attendant bravely attempted to battle off the...
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...to go abroad when I was small and then, so, when she's away and whenever I see airplanes in the sky, people say I usually point to that plane and then I guess, probably that's why I wanted to become a pilot, to go to places because I can see pictures of her in other countries, nice places, probably that's why I wanted to become one. Q: What are the requirements to pilot school? A: Requirements. In the first place, I got mine when I joined the Air Force, so in my experience, I can say that in the Air Force, at first, you must be commissioned officer—that is a lieutenant—then you must be able to pass a competitive examination, then you must also pass a rigid medical exam, and after that you must finish the two-year flying training in the Airforce. In the civilian world, I think, the requirement in the cilivian world, you must have a four-year college degree, preferably something that is technical but...
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...Our project is about the invading and retaliation of countries during World War II. This fits well with this year's theme of “ Conflict and Compromise” because of the turmoil that happened during the invasion and after, and how the Allied Forces freed the countries in the end. We interviewed my grandparents, who were in The Netherlands during the five-year period they were under Nazi control. Savannah Pennington dug up an old interview from her Great Uncle, as well; Lt. Colonel Frank Bird, who served in the American airforce during World War II. We used a collection of ten WWII based books for our secondary sources, as well as other websites. We learned that my grandfather and grandmother hid Jewish people in specially designed compartments...
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...The Paris Peace Conference The Paris Peace Conference, convened to build a lasting peace after World War I, approved the proposal to create the League of Nations (French: Société des Nations, German: Völkerbund) on 25 January 1919.[24] The Covenant of the League of Nations was drafted by a special commission, and the League was established by Part I of the Treaty of Versailles. On 28 June 1919,[25][26] 44 states signed the Covenant, including 31 states which had taken part in the war on the side of the Triple Entente or joined it during the conflict. Despite Wilson's efforts to establish and promote the League, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1919,[27] the United States did not join the League. Opposition in the U.S. Senate, particularly from Republican politicians Henry Cabot Lodge and William E. Borah, together with Wilson's refusal to compromise, ensured that the United States would not ratify the Covenant." In other words it was created BECAUSE of WW1, to premote the peice and stop anything like that from happening again. "Germany expected a treaty based on these fourteen points. However, negotiations between the 'big four' Lloyd George of England, Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of America did not go smoothly. Wilson believed that his fourteen points was the only way to secure everlasting peace. The French however, wanted the defeated nations to be punished severely and believed Wilson's plan too lenient. Privately...
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... North American Aviation, immediately realizing an opportunity, made an extremely bold and seemingly impossible proposal; they would build a superior fighter to the P-40, and they would get it into the fight sooner (Pearcy 1996). Now take a minute and think about this chain of events. The British military leaders didn’t even consider looking to a new airframe initially. The need was so immediate, that they were willing to go with the best available option in the P-40, without ever considering that there could be something better! If not for the business savvy and quick thinking of North American, the Mustang may have never existed. Pre-War Doctrine and Why it Failed Early on in the war, bombing mission success was evident. The 8th Airforce had executed 26 bombing campaigns through 1942. While any loss of life was not desired, the missions had successfully maintained a 2% or less loss rate (Craven and Cate 1949, pp. 704–705) .Looking at it from that standpoint, the pre-war doctrine was working. It wasn’t until June of 1943, when bombing missions were really ramped up, that the loss rate began to climb, and climb rapidly. From a mere 2%, the loss rates for just two missions had eclipsed the 25% mark (Craven 1949). Bombers were flying deep into German held territory, leaving their escort fighters behind, and they were paying a very steep price. Like most desperate situations, leaders began to throw “noodles at the wall, to see what would stick”. The British military leaders...
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...| 2013 | | Donisha BrewerProfessor Stuart English 102 | [Junior rotc] | | Growing up I was never the person to be interested in joining the military. I actually frowned upon the idea. In my junior year of high school I was enrolled in the JROTC program. I didn’t last two week in the program before I had my mother come and withdraw me from the program and enroll me in P.E. At the time I didn’t know what ROTC and the benefits the program had to offer. As I have gotten older I have found out that there are many benefits for the students who are in the JROTC program. There is more than one branch of the JROTC. It has just as many branches as the United States Military. If I had had some prior knowledge on JROTC when I was in high school I may have giving it a chance. Junior ROTC is a part of a federal program that is sponsored by the United States Armed Forces. Junior ROTC is located within High Schools across America. Many students who enroll in the JROTC are more likely to enlist in part of the United States Military. The Reserve Officers Training Corps also known as ROTC began in 1916 on the campus of Yale University. Hundreds of thousands of cadets have trained there since then. Approximately 70,000 ROTC cadets train at over 300 campuses (Wissing 39). The latest branch was opened in 2011 when the secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus joined with Yale President Richard Levin to re-establish the ROTC on its campus. It had been 40 years since the last ROTC class graduated...
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...factories to produce weapons and supplies for the war. It also proves how the jobs that men left behind to fight in the military were only seen as for men and society was not familiar with women working the jobs that were only considered acceptable if men had took part in. Also during World War Ⅱ, a group of female pilots which then became known as the Women Airforce Service Pilots, was formed to solve the problem of the shortage of pilots when the United States faced in 1942. The solution was to train women to fly military aircraft and release male...
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...not have total control over his CJTF. This was a huge stepping stone in the process of the operation. With him not have access to the different branches as the commander he was unable to provide the right support for his troops on the battlefield. During the Operation itself, he notices if he had access to make the decision without having to call hire for the support it would be better for the troops on the ground. “General Hagenbeck and his ground commanders could only request airstrikes, not order them” (Kugler 2007). By getting the authority to give the commands for the battlefield from CFACC and CAOCC greatly reduced the time for airstrike support for the grounded Soldiers. This also built that Shared understanding between the Airforce the United States Army, SOF and the Afghan...
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...Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic were both imperative for the Allies during World War II. The victories from these battles gave the allied forces hope and more momentum during the war. Germany was a strong military force and had already captured Poland and was spreading throughout Europe. The Battles decisive victories put a halt to German operations and pushed pack the Germans from their original invasion plans. The Battle of Britain was definitely a turning point for the Second World War since it prevented Hitler from controlling Western Europe. Germany had already invaded France, Britain partner in the declaration of war, and if the British Isles had fallen, Germany might have won the war. However, as I will show in this article, Operation Sea lion, The Nazi plan for invasion of Britain, was not planned well, and would probably not have succeeded even if the RAF had not taken down the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. .A.F.'s victory in the Battle of Britain was the first nail the evil Nazi empire's coffin and ensured it's final defeat, it bought valuable time for Britain and the world. A free Britain slowly but surely built it's forces, worked hand in glove with the U.S.A., supplied the U.S.S.R. and brought the resources of it's vast Empire to bear on Herr Hitler and his Nazi hordes The Battle Of The Atlantic was the LONGEST battle of the entire war, and it ebbed and flowed for five...
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...of the Christ Lutheran Church, a Lutheran congregation of about 200 people, where he after a 30 year old membership was elected for president of the Congregation Council. As a child Dennis Rader joined the Boy Scouts as a youth, and were participating in church youth activities. All in all a good young boy. But there was a dark side of the little boy: By his own admission, he says he developed fantasies about bondage, control and torture from an early age, while still in grade school – This became a characteristics for Dennis as a criminal. According to several reports, as a child he also tortured animals. He later had a fetish for wearing womens underwear. He took the underwear from his victims. Later he spent some years in the U.S. airforce, stationed in a couple of American States, South Korea, Greece and Turkey. When he returned to American, he he moved to Park City, and worked in meat department alongside his mother. He married Paula Dietz 22 May 1971 and they got two children together; a boy and a girl. After this he earned an associate's degree in Electronic in 1973, and later a bachelor’s degree in Administration in Justice at Wichita State University. Then he worked for several companies, among others as an assembler at the Coleman Company, a camping gear firm, and ADT Security Service. It is believed that is was here he learned to shut off people’s burglar alarms....
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...Adolf Hitler was able to defeat France easily in 1940 because the French because the French Vichy government cooperated closely with the Germans, in regards to their belief that Germany would ultimately win and that the French wanted to be on the winning side. However, many French citizens were not Nazi Germany sympathizers and thought this cooperation was another example of government corruption. The air war against Britain was an utter failure because of three of factors. The first factor was that Great Britain surpassed Germany in war production. British factories kicked into overdrive mode to combat the rise of the German war machine. The second factor is that Germany deployed most of it airforce, the Luftwaffe, to fight in...
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...The Speech by Ronald Reagan on May 5, 1985, to the German war cemetery at Bitburg as requested by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, for a wreath-laying ceremony. This cemetery and the President's speech are historically significant because they marked the 40th Anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II. After where President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at an Airforce base in Germany to the service member, Germans, and Jewish survivors and remembers. President Ronald Reagan knew what he was walking into, and instead of the denning request, The President did the wreath laying and speech. With all intent to come out ahead, knowing he was up against a wall, where he was undoubtedly supposed to fail. Not only did Ronald Reagan, do the wreath laying and walk the German war cemetery but gave an outstanding speech that would honor him as a great speaker. How would President Ronald Reagan turn out with such criticism against him visiting this German war grave site were 48-SS soldiers wear also buried. Laying a wreath for the so-called enemy and turning a blind eye to what it...
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...From time imemorial it has been belived that the definition of manhood is the ability to protect and be strong for the nation and the family while women need to be able to take good care of homes and nurture children. It would be very difficult for the United states citizens to elect a female president since presidents are viewed as commanders in chief of the armed forces,whose main duty is to protect the nation which is traditionally not part of what defines womanhood. Furthermore, some of the instruments of power used by United States presidents such as the airforce one and the submarine are not designed to serve a female president. Also the military usually believe they cant take orders from a woman. Therefore, based on these factors hinder election of women presidents. In summary, according to me women need to be enlightened more on their voting rights while the media needs to avoid sexist approach when reporting women presidential candidates...
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...Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. Justin Morris 7th Grade English Language Arts Ben Davis was born to Benjamin Davis Sr. and Elnora Dickerson Davis. He wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and join the military. His father was the first black general in the United States. General Davis studied at the university of Chicago before entering the United States Military academy. He graduated top 30 in his class and went on to join the Airforce. He ranked up to Lieutenant Colonel and organized the 99th pursuit squadron.When he first joined, he led an all black squadron because of segregation. I found this information at biography.com. In 1943. Lieutenant Colonel Davis organized and commanded the 332nd Fighter group also known as the Tuskegee Airmen. He flew his squad into World War 2. Ben later got promoted to colonel for his amazing leadership. By the end of World War II, Lieutenant Davis had flown sixty combat missions. He later was promoted to Brigadier General after the Korean war. He finally ended his military career in 1970 at the rank of Lieutenant General. I found this information on...
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...The argument of whether or not to allow women in combat is not a new issue. Prior to the 1990’s, women were not even allowed to fly combat missions or allowed onto combat ships. In the United States military the term combat is defined as an armed conflict. The definition of combat is important to know because the argument is that women should not be allowed to serve in combat. Women not being allowed to serve in combat is a much different argument then the argument that women should not be allowed in the military. Women perform many important jobs in the United States armed forces and very few people are against women serving in the military. The United States armed forces consist of five branches, the Airforce, Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard. Currently women are allowed to serve in all five branches and are being integrated into the combat mission of all five branches. In December of 2010...
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