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Naval Operations During The Civil War
1,743 wordsAt the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, there was little reason to suspect that the United States Navy would play a very big role in the war. The Confederate Navy had absolutely no navy, nor did they have the ability to create one. The south did not contain a single plant that could create a marine engine. (Carrison, page # 17) The government of the Confederate States got underway in the spring of 1861, totally unprepared from a naval standpoint to uphold the independence it had declared. (Co...
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Pearl Harbor Attack Aircraft Carriers
1,189 wordsDecember 7 th, 1941, was the opening of World War 2, in the Pacific arena. In 1931, Japan invaded China's northern parts and then in 1937, Japan announced a full invasion of China. The United States couldn't just stand by and let Japan take over Asia's parts, so they moved their fleets to Pearl Harbor. The strongest ships were the battleships, which were named after the states of the union. U. S. Arizona was made in 1915 and then was Rebuilt and updated in 1930. The ship was surrounded with over...
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Pearl Harbor Attack World War Ii
1,302 wordsThe Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 Ships Present at Pearl Harbor, 0800 7 December 1941 Action Reports for commands and ships at Pearl Harbor Cryptologic Histories relating to the Pearl Harbor Attack Related Web Sites on the Pearl Harbor Attack The road to war between Japan and the United States began in the 1930 s when differences over China drove the two nations apart. In 1931 Japan conquered Manchuria, which until then had been part of China. In 1937 Japan began a long and ultimately uns...
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Good V Evil In Star Wars
1,633 wordsThe novel, Star Wars, by George Lucas, is a story about the classic struggle between Good and Evil. The story illustrates what the Evil will do to achieve its goals and how the Good will overcome many diversities to achieve justice. To get a good idea of the background and setting of Star Wars, the prologue to the movie Star Wars: A New Hope tell us, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is a period of civil war... Rebel spaceships... have won their first battle against the evil Galactic...
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Second World War First World War
2,303 wordsAmong the most significant aspects of twentieth century military affairs has been how naval and land-based air power have transformed maritime operations. Today, much of the maritime arena is controlled, monitored, or exploited by aerospace systems. The capital ships of the modern era are the aircraft carrier and the missile-armed submarine, both weapons of three-dimensional warfare. The worlds sea lanes are monitored by aircraft and helicopters flown from the decks of aircraft carriers and othe...
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Submarines In The Revolutionary And Civil Wars
1,020 words... ve the submarine. This was a great risk because the submarine could easily collide with the torpedo as it was surfacing. To rectify the problem, the engineers attached a twenty-two foot battling ram to the front of the ship along with the torpedo on the end. When the torpedo hit the enemy ship and detonated the Pioneer III and the men would theoretically be unharmed and would only have to suffer a slight jolt from the explosion. The Confederate navy was still desperate to break the Union blo...
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Captains Log Of Kptlt Otto Hersing
1,453 wordsH 2 >Captains Recovery Captains Log is about a Captain commanding a German submarine in World War I. He commands one of the most important and renowned naval vessels in the German fleet. Receiving a medal for two years in the sea, he became famous and hated by the allies. I received this amount as a combination of a Social Studies and English project. I had to write about something in World War I so I chose a naval vessel in the German Imperial Navy. The way I came up with this topic was ...
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World War One Declared War On Germany
1,344 wordsThe U-boat fleet all started in 1905, when the German government ordered for a new type of military submarine to be produced, and be called das Unterseebootein, which means undersea boat, and is abbreviated as U-boat. Within a short time, Krupps Germaniawerft plant designed the almost perfect submarine, except for one flaw, the use of petrol engines. Using gasoline was extremely dangerous, with the constant risk of explosions. So instead of petrol engines, they replaced them with diesel engines....
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Engine Room Men Died
710 wordsThe USS Indianapolis (CA- 35) was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1932. The ship served with honor from Pearl Harbor through the last campaign of World War II, sinking in action two weeks before the end of the war. On 30 July 1945, while sailing from Guam to Leyte, Indianapolis was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I- 58. The ship capsized and sank in twelve minutes. Survivors were spotted by a patrol aircraft on 2 August. All air and surface units capable of rescue opera...
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Time To Save Head Of Kinsale Lusitania
1,578 wordshopefully salvage the liner, sunk off the south-west coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915, killing 1, 198 people. 'The Lusitania is probably the most important shipwreck that hasn't been investigated in any detail so far, 's ays Gregg Bemis. And although there are striking similarities between the Lusitania and the Titanic, recently the subject of a major movie, Bemis believes that the Lusitania is 'a much more interesting and historical story - and you don't have to make up any phoney romance the wa...
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The Accidental Crusade Spanish American War Part 1
1,662 wordsThe accidental crusade: The Spanish American War The Spanish-American War was brief, but it became the beginning of the American overseas empire, formal and informal. For Several centuries Spain remained the World's empire and its colonies were spread worldwide. But by the end of the nineteenth century only few Spanish possessions remained in the Pacific, Africa and West India. Most part of the former Spanish possessions gained independence or fell into other hands. The remained colonies struggl...
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Tucker Preston Tucker Produce His Car People
593 wordsMovie: Tucker Preston Tucker Preston Tucker was a car-crazy kid who hung around auto speedways and grew up to create an automobile Tucker that was years ahead of its time. He was a man of pioneering spirit, ingenuity, and daring, who revolutionized Detroit in the 1940 s with his stunning car of tomorrow. It was streamlined, futuristic, and fast the car every American dreamed of owning, at a price most people could afford. When he wanted to start to produce the car he faces a lot of barriers, an ...
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Spanish Civil War Abraham Lincoln
3,698 wordsThousands of volunteers from North and South America were among those who volunteered to help defend the democratically elected Spanish government from a revolt of fascist army officers supplied by Hitler and Mussolini. Some of these volunteers died when the ship they were traveling onthe City of Barcelona was torpedoed off the Spanish coast. We present here a dossier that runs from the wartime accounts by Jack Freeman and Edwin Rolfe to a 1998 poem by Mart? n Espada. 1937 Letter from an America...
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Obi Wan Kenobi Good And Evil
1,693 wordsGood v. Evil The novel, Star Wars, by George Lucas, is a story about the classic struggle between Good and Evil. The story illustrates what the Evil will do to achieve its goals and how the Good will overcome many diversities to achieve justice. To get a good idea of the background and setting of Star Wars, the prologue to the movie? Star Wars: A New Hope? tell us, ? a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. ? ? It is a period of civil war. ? ? ... Rebel spaceships have won their first battle a...
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618 wordsIronclad ships were also a big part in the Civil War, two of the most famous ironclads were the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia a. k. a. Merrimack. The Monitor was built on Mar. 9, 1862 at Hamton Rds. VA. by John Ericsson they, for 4 hours the Monitor and the Merrimack battled. The Confederate ironclad was destroyed by its own crew to prevent it from being captured. The Confederates planned to build several ironclads that could challenge and defeat the wooden frigates and gunboats of the union....
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Aircraft Carriers Pearl Harbor
3,616 words? The key to national greatness is a strong industrial economy coupled with a powerful navy. ? Introduction It was 8 AM at in the Pacific on December 7, 1941, and a harbor filled with a few warships was being bombed. It wasn? t uncommon for a harbor bombing during the times of World War II. What was uncommon was the fact that the harbor belonged to the United States, a country that wasn? t involved in the war yet, and the country bombing it was Japan, a country that had come out of isolation jus...
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Nuclear Submarine Family Members
1,466 wordsThe Kursk, a Russian nuclear submarine, which sank on August 12 th is at the bottom of the Barents Sea, 150 km (90 miles) off Russias northwest coast. While performing a routine naval tactical exercise something undetermined went wrong sending the submarine to the sea s floor. One of the most advanced submarines of this modern era is now a casket of steel for all 118 crewmen that were aboard the vessel. President Vladimir Putin and his government s actions towards the disaster are both irrespons...
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Blue Riband X Blue Riband Ship
436 wordsThe Sinking of the Lusitania In the early part of the twentieth century there was one and only main way to travel through the Atlantic Ocean. The Lusitania was built to challenge some german vessels that had the |blue riband X. At this time the passengers of these vessels were not only looking for fast means of travels but stylish means of traveling. They were looking for luxury, from the food to the sleeping accomodations. The Lusitania weighed 31, 550 tons and was 785 feet long. In only its se...
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Attack On Pearl Harbor Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
1,481 wordsIn Perl Harbor In 1941, one of the largest American military defeats occurred. An entire naval fleet was destroyed, hundreds were killed, all before 09. 00 on a Sunday. The US did not have any knowledge of this attack, partially because of ignorance, partially because of the military strategies of their Japanese opponents. The Japanese attack on the US naval base of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a classic case of It will not happen to me! Although the US suspected Japanese actions, they ...
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U S Navy Ballistic Missile
2,579 wordsSUBMARINE ROLES AND MISSIONS The fundamental changes in the U. S. Submarine Force since the end of the Cold War involve major shifts in submarine warfighting concepts and doctrine, from the deterrence of global war to the support of U. S. national interests in regional crises and conflicts; from a primary Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) orientation against nuclear powered submarines to taking full advantage of the modern submarines multi-mission capabilities; from weapon loadout's of primarily MK 4...
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