US in WW2

The Bataan Death march was a forced march of mostly American prisoners of war by the Japanese. Several thousand of the men died of exhaustion and thirst on the brutal trek in April of 1942.

During WW1, it was typical to use the artillery to destroy the enemy's fortifications and trenches. During WW2, the field artillery was more precise and could directly support an infantry unit. When the infantry came up against armor or a fortified enemy position, such as a machine gun bunker, they could call in precise coordinates and the artillery could be directed to destroy that target. Large artillery was used to fire at long ranges at targets behind the front lines and to destroy the enemy's artillery positions.

Probably the best known during the war was the Memphis Belle, a B-17 of the 91st Bomb Group, which operated from Bassingbourne England. The Belle and her crew were the first Americans to successfully complete a tour of duty, finishing the required 25 missions in May, 1943. At that stage of the war there were not yet fighter planes capable of escorting the bombers deep into enemy territory, and most crews were being shot down before they could finish their tour. The Belle and her crew were the subject of a documentary film by Hollywood director William Wyler which was shown in theaters across America. The film included actual combat footage and focused on their last mission. After that last mission the Belle was flown back to the states by her crew and they went on a tour around the country to promote buying War Bonds, visiting the hometown of each member of the crew and every major US city. The pilot, Robert Morgan of Asheville NC, died in May 2004. When the Belle visited Asheville in 1943 on the Bond Tour, upon leaving Morgan flew over the city, where the City Hall and Courthouse stand side by side, approximately fifteen stories tall. Morgan stood the Belle on one wing and flew the massive aircraft between them. The Belle stood in front of a National Guard Armory in Memphis for many years, where she was vandalized. Finally she was restored and a permanent home built for her on Mud Island, along the Memphis waterfront on the Mississippi. The Belle was named in honor of Morgan's girlfriend, who was from Memphis, but they never married.

The 91st Bomb Group was also the subject of a book, "12 O'Clock High", which was made into a movie starring Gregory Peck, and also a 60s television show by Quinn Martin. The group had four squadrons and a total bomber strength of 48-72 B-17s and lost 197 bombers destroyed during the war. Morgan also wrote a book, and there was at least one other book treating the 91st BG of WWII, "My Two Wars". There was also a movie made about 1990, with Matthew Modine and Harry Connick, Jr., "The Memphis Belle", focusing on the last mission, with more Hollywood than fact in it.

Today, probably the most famous WWII bomber in the Enola Gay, the B-29 which dropped the first Atomic Bomb on Japan. That was of course only days before the end of the war. During the war, the Belle was the best known US bomber.

If you mean the war with Iraq, this promise was not explicitly made, but I think it was generally understood that the US would benefit from lower oil prices from Iraq if Saddam was removed.

Because of their shapes. Fat Man used plutonium. A sphere of plutonium was surrounded by conventional explosives which were designed to send the force of their explosion inward to crush the sphere into a smaller shape (thus higher density) in order to trigger the nuclear reaction. Thus the bomb had a very rounded shape to it, suggestive of a fat man. In contrast the other bomb, which used uranium, had the nuclear reaction triggered by firing a small slug of uraniun down a track into a larger mass of the same element. Thus that bomb looked long and slender by comparison and so picked up the moniker Little Boy in contrast. Michael Montagne

Steve Largent was elected to Congress in 1994 and to the NFL Hall of Fame in 1995. Largent remained in Congress until 2002. Jack Kemp

The United States took a somewhat neutral stance during World War II, although they tended to side more with the British and French. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, therefore drawing the US into the fight.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both are in Japan.

The central portions of the cities underneath the explosions suffered almost complete destruction. The only surviving objects were the frames of a small number of strong reinforced concrete buildings which were not collapsed by the blast; most of these buildings suffered extensive damage from interior fires, had their windows, doors, and partitions knocked out, and all other fixtures which were not integral parts of the reinforced concrete frames burned or blown away; the casualties in such buildings near the center of explosion were almost 100%. In Hiroshima fires sprang up simultaneously all over the wide flat central area of the city; these fires soon combined in an immense "fire storm" (high winds blowing inwards toward the center of a large conflagration) similar to those caused by ordinary mass incendiary raids; the resulting terrific conflagration burned out almost everything which had not already been destroyed by the blast in a roughly circular area of 4.4 square miles around the point directly under the explosion (this point will hereafter in this report be referred to as X). Similar fires broke out in Nagasaki, but no devastating fire storm resulted as in Hiroshima because of the irregular shape of the city.

-The Manhattan Engineer District, June 29, 1946.-

They, with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed behind the invasion beaches, captured and held important bridges, road crossings and towns. The British Oxfordshire and Buckinghams, (Ox & Bucks) took the important bridge in the north sector, Pegasus Bridge. They were glider troops.

General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing was the commander of U.S. in Europe in World War 1.

Without the Allied invasion in June 1944 there would have been no liberation, so credit must go to the supreme commander of the Allied armies, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Commanders in the field, such as Montgomery, Bradley, Patton and others also deserve mention.

240. According to the US Army Center for Military History, there were 245 Medals of Honor awarded for the Vietnam War. Soldiers received 159, Sailors 16, Marines 57, Airmen 13. Additionally, Congress authorized the award for the Unknown Soldier from the Vietnam War, for a total of 246. Of these, 155 were awarded posthumously.

The attack on Normandy Beach and all the other beaches affected the outcome, because Normandy was another way to get in to Europe and the allies needed another way in. After D-Day Germany had to take troops from the Eastern and send them to the West and although the soviets probably would have won it would have lasted a lot longer 3-5 years even.

The main allies were France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. However, other countries helped as well, Canada for example participated in the Normandy invasion.

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India's first nuclear test on May 18, 1974, described by the Indian government as a "peaceful nuclear explosion." The first Nuclear Test in India was cnducted on 18 May , 1974 at Pokhran.

On December 7, 1941 local time at Pearl Harbor which is east of the international date line (Hawaii, North & South America, Europe & Africa), and December 8, 1941 west of this line (Japan, China, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, etc.).

Germanys main idea was to dominate Europe. After Italy joined Germany, they wanted to continue their empire further down and Italian troops were instucted to take over Northen Africa. Australian troops had been sent to the Middle East early in 1941. They were very successful in defeating Italian troops at Benghazi, and Vichy French forces in Syria. The biggest test came against the German troops who were trying to take the port of Tobruk, a strategically important area.

They did but they had decided to surrender before the bombs. August 6 1945, US drops the first bomb. Meanwhile Japan was hoping for Russia to help with the procedure but Russia declared war against Japan and invaded Manchuria making a mess of Japan's service men there. Japan did know to surrender to the United States than surrender to Russia.

The school day for the kids and teens during World War 2 did not change except for the fact that they actually prayed in school for the servicemen and women in the war.

They also recycled items that were used in the school for the war effort. They were taught geography. On maps they would put pins where the Armed Forces were as the war progressed. They would write letters to soldiers and families who lost their loved ones. Sometimes children would not come to class because they had lost a loved one. Most of the kids ate the school cafeteria food so they would not use up their rations for their home. They would buy booklets of tickets for the lunches for a very low price. The PTA planned events for the children so they could cope with the difficulties the war posed for the children. The phrase "latch key" kids came into being because they had to wear their house key on their neck and go home when their moms were still working at the factory making war goods. Many kids participated in war efforts with the school officials or after school. They watched films about the war in the school auditorium too. (I just had to add this too. They actually said the Pledge of Allegiance in school every morning. And they had show and tell.)

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