An Analysis Of Pete Nelson's Left For Dead

on its maiden voyage in 1912 the British ocean liner titanic sank after ramming an iceberg in the north atlantic ocean. the nearest ship the California did not get the SOS message because the radio operator had gone to bed and turned off his radio. the titanics captain Edward j smith knew that there were only enough lifeboats for half the 2100 people on board in the panic even those were not filled. seventeen year old jack Thayer from Philadelphia was not lucky enough to get into a lifeboat but as the titanic slid into the water, he dived from its deck into the ice waters coming upon an overturned lifeboat he hung on until the carpathian came to his rescue at dawn more than 1500 other people were not so

the sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those who were still alive were gravely ill. They were

lives were ended as a result of this unnatural disaster, most of them civilian. The people

Ford Island had been hit bomb and torpedoes. One of the ships the USS Arizona was

In the thirty-eight years of the United States Naval Submarine Service no United States submarine had ever sunk an enemy vessel. With the ignition of the Second World War the poorly equipped and poorly trained Silent Service, nicknamed for the limited access of the media to the actions and achievements of the submarines, would be thrust into the position American submariners had longed for. The attack on Pearl Harbor left the United States Navy with few options for retribution. The three remaining aircraft carriers were to be “the last line of defense.” Commander Stuart S. Murray made the precarious situation clear to his skippers, captains, upon sending them on their first war patrol. He stressed the importance of smart sailing by

The USS Indianapolis sink July 30, 1945. Many sailors dead. The people know how they died,

The sinking caused many problems. As a result of the sinking, a lot of sailors died. The men were in the water for way too long. They were exposed to a lot of things while they were in the middle of the ocean. They were exposed to sharks, seawater, oil, sun rays, and even cannibalism. All of those things played a major role in a lot of the men dying. Maybe not as many of them would have died if help would have came faster. What took the help so long to get there?

command. Although lives were lost in both tragedies, the incidents that occurred on the USS

submarine. The ship sank in twelve minutes. Over the course of five days and four nights many

The battleships, primary targets in the attack, remained anchored along an area referred to as “Battleship Row”. Within minutes after the assault began the USS Arizona sunk to the bottom of the bay taking 1,177 lives with her

It was all so incredible, than they were told of the ships off the coast, one was an aircraft carrier, which the Soldiers found hard to believe. The civilians told them

“We were losing three or four each night and day,” said Loel Dean Cox, a survivor of the USS Indianapolis tragedy. The USS Indianapolis was a Naval cruiser that was hit with a torpedo and sunk in the Philippine Sea on July 30, 1945. The ship had over 1,200 men on board, with 800 made it into the water, and only 316 survived after being rescued. The men spent four days in the shark infested waters, now the USS Indianapolis tragedy is called the worst shark attack in history. The USS Indianapolis tragedy could have been avoided if Captain McVay’s request for a destroyer escort was approved, the ship was informed of the nearby Japanese submarines before the accident, and if the mission was not as secret, Naval Base Guam could have realized something

Multiple simultaneous complex attacks destroyed vital friendly crew-served and indirect fire weapons systems during the initial attack. Enemy forces then started to advance on the platoon’s defensive positions.

Soon after, torpedoes pierced the USS Oklahoma. The Oklahoma lost balance, rolled onto it’s side and slipped underwater along with 400 sailors on board. By the time the attack was over, every battleship in Pearl Harbor had sustained significant damage, but could be not be repaired (All but USS Arizona and USS Utah were eventually salvaged and repaired.) These included the USS Oklahoma, USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Maryland, USS Pennsylvania, USS Tennessee and the USS Nevada. This attack lasted only two hours, but the destruction was devastating. The Japanese managed to destroy almost 20 American naval vessels along with eight enormous battleships, and over three hundred airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and 1,000 were wounded. Almost half of the casualties occurred on on the naval battleship USS Arizona, which was hit with four times by Japanese bombers. Twenty-three sets of brothers died aboard the ship. There were 37 pairs or trios of brothers aboard the USS Arizona the day of the attack. Of these 77 men, 63 died, and 23 sets of brothers died. Only one full set of brothers survived the

They did not die,they were still alive, according to the story.But there is another side to the story to make people think that they died trying.