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Pas De Calais Ball Bearings
1,612 words... g the ultimate object of the bomber offensive. These conclusions, with their notes of pessimism, were not shared by the bomber commanders, and were echoes of a new problem of immense significance. Air power, and particularly the bomber, had introduce a new dimension into warfare. Despite results which were at best, inconclusive, and the continued growth of enemy fighter strength, the Commanders of the Allied Strategic Air Forces had reached the conclusion that they controlled the decisive in...
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June 5 1944 British And Americans Germans
1,182 wordsIn midsummer 1943, a year before the Anglo- American invasion of Normandy Adolf Hitler still occupied all the territory he had gained. He had a strong foothold in North Africa, and was ready to take over the world if possible. He controlled all of Europe except Spain Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. Without intervention by the Us Hitler could count on prolonging his military reign for many years, there was no one else who could match him. Since 1942, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was pressing fo...
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Machine Gun Fire North Africa
1,700 words... division of X Armoured Corps from breaking through the bridgehead and into the enemy's communications before dawn. The failure to penetrate the minefields lost an exceptional opportunity because dawn on 24 October saw the German forces without direction as the barrage had dislocated their communications and the German commander, General Summer, was missing and was later found to have died of a heart attack. Furthermore, the German armour was dispersed across the desert and the German command...
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All American Girls Professional Baseball League
1,289 wordsThe All-American Girls Professional Baseball League operated from 1943 to 1954 and represents one of the most unique periods in baseball history. The league went through a full life cycle in its eleven years of existence and ended up being a predecessor for other womens leagues to come. The All American Girls Professional Baseball League had many successes that surprised a lot of people but also faced many failures, which resulted in its death as a womens professional baseball league. The league...
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Prisoners Of War Extermination Camps
1,405 wordsIs taking a persons life because of religious persuasion justified? Hitler thought so; he had a dream of ruling the world and those who didnt fit his plans were disposed of. Hitlers plan was to make a world of blonde-haired blue-eyed Germans. He started building concentration camps throughout Germany and the Reich during the late nineteen thirties. At first concentration camps were for the political prisoners, criminals, and security risks. He began to abolish the Jewish majority and others that...
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Strategic Bombing During World War 2
2,251 wordsWorld War 2 was a war fought in two distinct phases. The first was the last war of a new generation. The second was emphatically the first of a new era."The British strategic bomber campaign was of doubtful cost effectiveness." Bomber Command was by far the largest claimant on labour and factory space within the armed forces. Relative to their size they suffered more casualties than any other sector. The Anglo-American bomber force was divided in terms of strategy. Bomber Command believed it was...
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Role Of Women Italian Government
1,514 words... in late August and slowly took most of the city. Speaking to an assembly of war veterans in November 1942, Hitler told them, I wished to reach the Volga at a certain point, near a certain city. That city happens to bear the name of Stalin himself But Stalin ordered that the city be defended at all cost, the city which bore his name. Two very powerful Soviet armies were then assembled, one in the north and the other in the south of Stalingrad. As another Russian winter set in, Hitler was stil...
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Atlantic Charter United Nations
1,077 words... ower in favor of the Allies. The year 1942 saw the turn of the tide for the Allies. In June, Japanese naval airpower was decimated by the United States Navy in the Battle of Midway. Having been repulsed at Moscow, Hitler turned to the Caucasus, but the Germans were severely defeated and turned back at Stalingrad (now Volgograd) by the Russians in the closing months of the year. At the same time the British dealt the Germans and Italians a defeat at El Alamein that sent them reeling in retrea...
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Americans And British British And Americans
2,722 words... Roosevelt supported the British, and the American military succeeded only (several months later) in getting an agreement that no more troops would be put into the Mediterranean area than were already there, all others being assembled in England for a cross-channel attack in 1944. Roosevelt gave his military another shock when he announced that nothing short of unconditional surrender would be accepted from any of the Axis powers. The policy was meant to reassure the Russians, who would have ...
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Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Prisoners
1,413 wordsHolocaust Holocaust was by far one of the most hideous events that took place in the 20 th century. It is crucial that the remembrance, history and lessons of Holocaust are passed to the next generations, since that would ensure that terrible genocide like the one at issue would never happen again. The most important thing students and people at large can do to prevent this from happening again is to combat all the discrimination or prejudice that could possibly lead to another Holocaust. To do ...
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Rest Of His Life Silk Stockings
2,719 wordsAmerican composer Cole Porter (1891 - 1964) American composer &# 038; lyricist Biography Coles family Cole Porters name derives from the surnames of his parents, Kate Cole and Sam Porter. Kates father, James Omar (known as J. O. ), was an influential man both in the community and in Coles early life. J. O. started from humble beginnings as son of a shoemaker, but his business savvy and strong work ethic made him the richest man in Indiana. Despite J. O. s obsessive drive for making money, he too...
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Buster Keaton Warner Bros
4,657 wordsIn 1927 Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, a silent drama with sound sequences in which Al Jolson sang and spoke. The film was a hit, and within two years American cinema shifted irreversibly to talking films. At first everyone was planted around the microphone, but even as the technology improved, sound still slowed down the onscreen tempo because of the greater detail and realism which it brought to action. This change helped the dramatic players of silents, most of whom had equal or great...
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Pas De Calais German Air Force
3,348 wordsD-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the b...
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World War Ii Rolls Royce
4,505 wordsAbstract This paper deals with the contributions of the P- 51 Mustang to the eventual victory of the Allies in Europe during World War II. It describes the war scene in Europe before the P- 51 was introduced, traces the development of the fighter, its advantages, and the abilities it was able to contribute to the Allies arsenal. It concludes with the effect that the P- 51 had on German air superiority, and how it led the destruction of the Luftwaffe. The thesis is that: it was not until the adve...
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Prisoners Of War Extermination Camps
1,428 wordsIs taking a person? s life because of religious persuasion justified? Hitler thought so; he had a dream of ruling the world and those who didn? t fit his plans were disposed of. Hitler? s plan was to make a world of blonde-haired blue-eyed Germans. He started building concentration camps throughout Germany and the Reich during the late nineteen thirties. At first concentration camps were for the political prisoners, criminals, and security risks. He began to abolish the Jewish majority and other...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Third Army
5,080 wordsWorld War Patton Patton World War II was the most destructive war in history. It began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and a British and French alliance, but eventually included most of the nations of the world. Most of the war was fought with the same types of weapons used in World War I. The greatest advances were in aircraft and tanks. Patton was the first soldier in the tank corps. He created the training procedures, the regulations and the methods of instruction. At that time...
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Bombing Raids Unconditional Surrender
4,605 wordsWorld War 2 was a war fought in two distinct phases. The first was the last war of a new generation. The second was emphatically the first of a new era. The British strategic bomber campaign was of doubtful cost effectiveness. Bomber Command was by far the largest claimant on labour and factory space within the armed forces. Relative to their size they suffered more casualties than any other sector. The Anglo-American bomber force was divided in terms of strategy. Bomber Command believed it was ...
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