US in WW2

7 Victoria crosses were awarded at Gallipoli.

The first navy pilot was LT Theodore Ellyson

Lindley Miller Garrison was Secretary of War during World War 1. He was in office from March of 1913 to February 1916. Newton D. Baker was Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921.

The Oak Leaf Cluster is not a medal. It is a small pin in the shape of an oak leaf that is issued for the 2nd (and 3rd and 4th) time you receive a medal. If you earned a Purple Heart Medal for being wounded, then the second time you would be issued "an oak leaf to the Purple Heart Medal".

Campaign Medals were issued for service in a region for a specific time. Then if you continued serving and were in another campaign, you would receive a 2nd Oak Leaf to the Campaign Medal. Thus the Normandy landing was one campaign. Then if you fought into Germany there was one for that.

In total, the US lost 418,500 people. This includes 416,800 soldiers and 1,700 civilians, which were killed during WW2.

Soldiers would go through a period of basic training before being sent in to battle. Some soldiers would spend months or years training in specialist skills whereas other might be committed to battle without any training in some exceptional circumstances.

Soldiers would join the Army either voluntarily or were given no choice and were conscripted. Either way, Recruits would learn the basics of his trade: how to fire a gun, dig a trench, march in step and how to fight as a team.

After this the recruit would be sent to a battle zone with the other recruits to fight as a new unit or serve individually as replacements in units that had taken casualties.

Soldiers were expected to serve for a number of years or until the war was won but they would not be continually committed to battle for this entire time. Ideally, the units soldiers were in would be rotated between the front line and reserve or resting positions were they would not be in imminent danger. This allowed the soldiers to rest and recuperate as best they could before being recommitted to the battle.

Depending on the fercocity of the fighting and the availability of reserves, whole units could remain in close combat for weeks and suffer a steady stream of casualties. Replacements would be drafted in to keep the unit in fighting condition but as it's strength stemmed from operating as a team, the longer a unit stayed in battle, the more casualties it took and the more replcaements received, diminished its fighting power.

Soldier fought until they were relieved by reserve until or unable to function through death, non-fatal wounds, illness or desertion. The middle two causes accounted for the majority of casualties sustained by the armies of WW2. Military hospitals were established to heal the sick and wounded and return the men to the fight. Soldiers would sustain wounds that caused them to be unfit for further soldiering were either transfered to non-combat units or were discharged from the Army and given a disability pension.

Desertion was a serious problem for Armies, especially when whole countries were on the verge of defeat or when soldiers had been exposed to the horrors of war. Deserters became fugitives from the law and were hunted by Military Police. If caught they could expect to be harshly treated and even sentenced to prison or execution. However, the majority of desertions took place away from the battle field when soldiers tried to get away from the discipline of the army.

The most Purple Hearts received by one person is eight. Four Army soldiers share that distinction: •Richard J. Buck - Four Purple Hearts for his actions during the Korean War and four during

the Vietnam War. •Robert T. Frederick - Eight Purple Hearts in World War II. •David H. Hackworth - Four Purple Hearts in the Korean War and four in the Vietnam War. •Robert L. Howard - Eight Purple Hearts in the Vietnam This off of military.com website

Falmouth and certainly several locations on the other side of the Tamar opposite Devonport Dockyard. Also many bombs just dumped randomly by 'lost' German aircraft .

What did industrialization and the factory system have on the u.s

There were sixteen million Americans in uniform during WWII. This was ten per cent of the population. Over half, more than eight million, were soldiers in the US Army. Another three million served in the US Army Air Force (the Air Force did not become an independent service until after the war - during WWII it was still part of the army). The rest were sailors and Marines.

Not all these men were sent overseas, and of the men overseas nowhere near all saw combat, and of those who did actually fight, some jobs were much more dangerous than others. Well under 5% of the WWII US servicemen were riflemen in infantry units, but this was who had to do the actual close fighting of the enemy. Over half of the US men killed were from this category though.

by that time when they threw the atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki it was unnecessary. Japan was already losing the war and was going to surrender.

After japan lost the war it impacted there culture they believed there emperor was part god so they believed what he said. He told them they were going to win the war, but after the atomic bomb was dropped they started to question there beliefs.

Yes there is a bomber plane that is called a B-17 they also used small bomber planes like a dive bomber and so did Germans/Nazis. There is one plane that drop bombs that is called a stuka. To like bomb ships and even ground troops like American tanks ground troops .Navy and they sometimes even drop bombs on submarines as they were diving but they were not fast enough American b17 was a flying fortress Americans use it to bomb Nazi warehouses airfields and even factories.

No. Army Regulation 670-1 forbids it. They are in the same class of awards.

The war in the Pacific had no similarity to the war in Europe. The Pacific war was largely a matter of 'Island hopping' -of large numbers of US troops and Marines fighting on beaches and to occupy islands, and of large naval battles involving aircraft carriers. -The war in Europe was a an air war in the beginning, and after D-Day a series of major land battles.

The war in the Pacific had no similarity to the war in Europe. The Pacific war was largely a matter of 'Island hopping' -of large numbers of US troops and Marines fighting on beaches and to occupy islands, and of large naval battles involving aircraft carriers. -The war in Europe was a an air war in the beginning, and after D-Day a series of major land battles.

Patton's middle name was Smith. Though known as a junior, he was actually the third George S. Patton, after his father and grandfather. The grandfather of the WWII general, the original George Smith Patton, was killed in 1864 while serving as colonel of the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment in the Confederate Army.

Even though this was disputed and viewed as racism, all Japaneese peoples (citizen & non-citizen) were put into relocation towns (similar to prisons) because they were thought of as still having loyalty toward the Imperial Japaneese Empire and spys.

The American & British air forces bombed hundreds of enemy targets in Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Norway, etc. Most of the targets of American bombers were transportation (bridges, rail lines & stations, river barges), electrical power, steel, chemical, ball bearings, military production (aircraft, aircraft engines, ships, ammunition, tanks, artillery, trucks, etc.), oil refinery & production, U-Boat Pens, and naval & air bases. The British night bombing targeted entire cities.

Federal programs stabilized the banks and pumped money into new government jobs. Threats of war stimulated the defense industries and major changes occurred after 500,000 men were taken into the military. Women were put to work in their old jobs and the making armaments became the main interest of industry. The military-industrial complex dominated the economy for many years afterward and the number of federal employees was never reduced to former levels.

Hello Becky,

My Dad (Arthur E. Metzler) was in the 472nd QM Truck Company "C" in India during World War II.

If you want, you can contact me at my e-mail address: CBI4345AM@aol.com

It would be an honor to help you any way that I can.

If anyone else would like to contact me, please do so by all means.

I have a lot of material that my Dad brought back from the war.

I also have a 1944 Christmas Menu from the 472nd QM Company while in India with everyones names on the back.

To see my Dad's web page and photo, go to the W W II National Memorial Web Site.

Go to the National W W II Memorial Web site at www.wwiimemorial.com

Click on the link that says - W W II Registry

Click on - Search The Registry

Add my Dad's Last name - Metzler

Add my Dad's First name - Arthur

Add State - Ney York

Then click on Submit

Regards,

Arthur Metzler jr. (Feb. 26, 2008)

My father, Bill Goodall (85 yrs old), is sitting here beside me as I type. SSgt Bill Goodall ("Dad") was in the 472nd QM Trucking Company "I" at Camp Sutton in Monroe, NC, and states he landed in Bombay, India in early 1943. Later they left to the Himalayan mountains near the Leado (sp?) Road. He continues we left there in late 1944 and went to Karachi (today Pakistan) where Company I left to come back to the US and landed in New York City on Dec 23, 1944. From the names mentioned previously, he recognizes Colonel Ireland. He also has a photograph of Company I at Camp Sutton, NC. (by Jeff Goodall, son of Will E. Goodall; 01/02/2005).

My father was in 472nd QM truck Co. E. We are trying to locate information, pictures, and anyone who served with him. Thank you. Donna

The Germans occupied Norway to secure the flow of iron ore. The Germans were dependent on this iron ore to make steel for their tanks and guns, submarines and artillery shells, all their munitions of war. The iron ore came from mines in the far north of Sweden. From there, it went by train west to the coast of Norway, where it was loaded on ships. By ship the ore traveled south down the coast of Norway to the end of the Scandinavian peninsula, then east into the Baltic Sea, and on to ports in the north of Germany. Germany absolutely had to have this raw material, or it would soon lose the war.

Sweden, like Norway, was trying to remain neutral, but both had to cooperate with the Germans, or the Germans would certainly invade their countries and take what they needed.

The British realized the complete dependency of Germany on this Swedish iron ore, and saw the vulnerability of the long supply line by which the ore reached Germany via Norway. The British actually invaded Norway first, for the purpose of interrupting the flow of the vital ore. Hitler's troops soon followed the British into Norway, and ejected the British forces. The Germans remained to insure that the iron ore would continue to flow without interference.

Fissionable material sufficient to fission if it comes together, a lab safe enough to handle such material, and mechanisms sufficient to bring the pieces of fissionable material together in what is called "critical mass".

Bare bones, you'd have a very large - and hard to transport - atomic bomb, of WWII size.

If you are wondering - given how easy that would be nowadays - why everyone doesn't have one, it's due to them being valueless without proper means of delivery. Which means they have to be small and yet still powerful, and be mounted on a very long range missile with a sophisticated guidance system.

According to the link provided below, there is about 50 in this category.

In Canada, it is believed they have found one at the bottom of Churchill River in Newfoundland.

The attack by Japanese dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighter aircraft on Pearl Harbor clearly demonstrated the superiority of aircraft over surface ships. It follows that the American carriers, with their large number of attack planes, posed a significant threat to the Japanese fleet.

Failing to destroy the American carriers (because they were not present at the US base) meant that the major US strike force was untouched in the attack. Had the carriers been sunk, the Japanese could easily have attacked the west coast of the USA.