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World War Ii Viet Minh
1,680 wordsThe Vietnam conflict began in the late 19 th Century. France forcefully took ownership of the islands and made the Vietnamese islands a protectorate of France. The Viet Minh, or the League Of Independence was formed sometime around 1940. They were a group of people seeking independence from France. The French Government opposed this action and decided to try and stop the Viet Minh from advancing their political ideals into the rest of Vietnam. In the city of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Minh surround...
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Knocked Unconscious Barbed Wire
1,285 wordsJuly 1 st 2001 Sweat poured down my rugged unshaved face, bathed in my camouflage, and dripped on my MP 5 sub-machine gun. As I ran for my God-forsaken life I spit out my fresh chew and screamed at my division sniping in the nearby trench, GET THE HELL OUT! ITS GONNA BLOW! ! Once I gained their attention it was too late. BAWOOSH! I tried to glance at my four other companions but I only caught a glimpse their distraught visages a split second before debris covered my sight and I was luckily blown...
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A War America Could Have Won
1,727 wordsThe First American combat troops in Vietnam landed at Da Nang in 8 March 1965 to defend the air base. With the exception of the nuclear weapon, every piece of equipment in America's mighty arsenal was used in the war. The USA President Lyndon Johnson said "Our goal was to deter and diminish the strength of the North Vietnamese aggressors and try to convince them to leave South Vietnam alone"#. Johnson limited the conflict to an air war at first, hoping to pound away and push the Viet Cong into g...
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Air Force Base Court Martial
1,473 wordsKelly Flinn, author of Proud to Be: My Life, The Air Force, The Controversy, was born on December 23, 1970, in St. Louis, Missouri. When she was 12, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from high school in 1989. On June 29, 1989, she entered the United States Air Force Academy and began her active-duty career in the U. S. Air Force. She graduated form the Academy on June 2, 1993, and then went on the Undergraduate Pilot Training at Columbus Air Force Base. In September 1995 she was the D...
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World War Ii U S Soldiers
2,507 wordsThe Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation, but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better weapons usage, better tactics, and better support from their home country. Before the War Even years before the war, Vietnam was a hotly disputed t...
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Francis Ford Coppola Point Of View
1,656 wordsBeginning roughly with the release of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Bomb in 1964, and continuing for about the next decade, the Sixties era of filmmaking made many lasting impressions on the motion picture industry. Although editing and pacing styles varied greatly from Martin Scorcesses hyperactive pace, to Kubrick's slow methodical pace, there were many uniform contributions made by some of the eras seminal directors. In particular, the Sixties saw ...
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Mise En Scene Stanley Kubrick
1,417 wordsStanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a satirical black comedy about Americas paranoia over the threat of nuclear warfare from the Soviet Union. General Jack D. Ripper is convinced he has discovered a secret communist conspiracy to rob Americans of their precious bodily fluids and is determined to stop the Soviets at all costs. Activating nuclear safety provisions in the form of the ominous Plan R without the consent of President Muf...
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