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President Franklin D Roosevelt World War Ii
1,104 wordsThe Tuskegee Airmen, the only African - American pilots to fight in World War II. In 1941, The pressure was put on President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take positive actions in the utilization of Negroes in the armed services. On March 7, 1942 the first five Negro cadets were commissioned as pilots of the United State Air Force. While assigned with the 324 th squadron, the 99 th received its first aerial victory and many more victories were to follow. The squadron earned the name "The Red Tail Ang...
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World War Ii Armed Forces
1,154 words... ch was stationed at Fard journal, under the command of Colonel William Money. On the morning of June 2, 1943, one of the most important combat missions of the 99 th Squadron was about to take place. The mission was a strafing mission against the heavily fortified Island of Pantelleria. They were to fly as winged for pilots of the 33 rd Fighter Group. The mission was successful but unexciting. Seven days passed before the group saw any enemy aircraft, on the eight day the Squadron was attacke...
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Allied Troops Pacific Islanders
1,169 words... ent all the more difficult. Unfortunately, malaria and yellow fever were not the only dangerous diseases that plagued the armies in the South Pacific. There were dysentery, scarlet fever, dengue fever and scrub typhus, another insect-borne disease. Yet there were thousands of native people who over the centuries had made the South Pacific their homes and seem to have made peace with its fierce nature and an unpredictable environment. They learned to get by with coconut milk when they were wi...
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Aviation Museum Canada National Aviation Museum Canada War
669 wordsFlying for the Allies in the First World War On 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany. Canada, as part of the great British Empire, was at war, a war in which the airplane changed forever the way nations do battle. The war brought new words to the aviation dictionary, among them: dogfight, ace, bomber, air raid. At first the airmen's main job was reconnaissance. They brought back birds-eye views of the enemy and later photographs. The pilots didnt want enclosed cockpits. They would have ...
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Saddam Hussein Saudi Arabia
1,221 words... ng the 1991 Gulf War and the crisis that led to it. Saddam Hussein's attack against oil-rich Kuwait proved just how vital the region was to not only the United States, but to the entire world. Oil is one of the main reasons we are in the Persian Gulf indefinitely. According to Hoagland, Saddam's threat to Saudi oil fields triggered the significant escalation of stationed American troops in the Gulf that has apparently enraged Saddam, Saudi domestic extremists or whoever set off that truck bo...
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Plastic Surgery Guinea Pigs
1,422 wordsI have chosen to do my biographical assignment on Dr. Ross Tilley. I became interested in him when I heard about him at the summer camp I worked at this year. He used to own the property of Camp Hollyburn until he sold the property to my boss' father, Ted Yard Sr. Before camp started we had to learn about the camp, and his name came up repeatedly, My boss talked about how he used to bring war burn victims up to the camp to discuss their struggle with being burned and to get away from the busynes...
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Agent Orange Vietnam Veterans
699 wordsDiabetes Strongly Associated With Vietnam Exposure to Pesticide U. S. Air Force planes spray the defoliant chemical Agent Orange over dense vegetation in South Vietnam in this 1966 photo. Dioxin is the component of Agent Orange linked to many health effects in laboratory animals. (AP PhotoN, March 29 An Air Force study released today confirmed a connection, long suspected by Vietnam veterans, between wartime exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange and diabetes. The Air Force said the link so far ...
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House Of Commons Mans Heart
1,618 wordsQuestion: ? The Lord of the Flies? by William Golding might be described as a novel that explores? The darkness of man? s heart? . Discuss. The question I have chosen to do this essay on is to discuss the way the novel is described; it is described as exploring? the darkness of man? s heart? . The novel is set in the not too distant future where war is waging between nuclear powers in the world. Because of these circumstances a large number children have been evacuated from their homes but befor...
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