Colonel Beirne Lay's Impact: Destruction From The Air

It does so by portraying how the conflict in society vs. society. The societies in this book are the upper Western part of the world and the upper Western part of the world. It shows the conflict society vs. society by the United States going against and Allies going against Germany and its allies. After Hitler committed suicide the Germans started falling apart and eventually left the war. This book is based on building the first atomic bomb. If the bomb for someone to help he had to be trusted and that the person won't tell anyone. “Oppenheimer Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the most dangerous secret in the world, argued the FBI, because he might leak information to his communist friends, and from there, to the Soviet Union,”(49-50). The U.S. had manufactured it first. The only countries in the war left were the U.S. and Japan. Japan would not surrender knowing that the U.S. This kept going on and they did not surrender. The Americans thought “If the atomic bomb could shock Japan into giving up, it had to be used,”(189). The bomb, in the long run, was later dropped in Japan. They still did not surrender. Later another bomb was dropped and they gave up. After that, the war ended and everybody heard and was scared on the capabilities on what the bomb can do. The Bomb being dropped in Japan was then later spoken a lot and was really controversial. Many thought that it was ok that the U.S.

The Eighth bomber command was part of the Army Air Force and was re-designated as the 8th air force in February of 1944. The command took the headquarters to England in early 1942 once they were activated to conduct aerial bomb runs over Nazi-occupied Europe. During World War II the 8th AF became the greatest air armada in the history of the Army Air Force.1 It was commanded by great Generals such as Jimmy Doolitle and produced one of the most famous planes, The Memphis Belle.

The dropping of the Atomic Bomb changed not only warfare forever, but also all international relations. With that being said, the decision to do so was one of the biggest decisions made by any government in the history of time. Nuclear warfare was way more destructive and way faster than any other form of warfare preceding. With the United States seemingly always viewed to be “the good guys” it is puzzling that this country is the same one who killed hundreds of thousands of people all at once and essentially ruined not one but two entire cities within minutes of dropping two single bombs. This decision was not taken lightly, and with basically two schools of thought, liberalism vs. realism, insisting to do so or not to do so, and realism won out. Realism and the many counterparts that strengthen this school of thought is what drove the decision to go ahead and drop the atomic bomb.

Freeman frequently used Government documents to tell some stories of these men and sometimes interviews from various articlesto cross-reference the amazing heroic rescue stories of some of the 500 American air men, after most where shot down during the bombings of German petroleum Fields during Operation Air Bridge. For instance,in the beginning he tells Mike McKool’s story from the summery of the account he provided in Operation Air Bridge, along with newspapers articles from 1946(48). Than he goes on to tell the story of Thomas Oliver and how he “was flying a barrowed plain” from His summary of his account he provided in his unpublished manuscript (49). At the end of the book he gives notes to prove that his facts or sources are creditable. He does supply enough info to insure his facts are indeed respectable. The only down side to his sources is that he didn’t personally interview these men, due to the fact that many aren’t around now days.

For my first book report, I chose the novel Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin. This book, based on the title and from the works of the author, is an informative book, or a non-fiction novel. This can contribute to one reason I chose to read this book. There are many reasons as to why I chose this novel for my first report. One being, I was already in the middle of reading this book, so I chose to finish this book early and take my time for the writing of the report itself. It’s much more convenient that way. Another reason, one that relates to the book itself, it that the author, Steve Sheinkin, is well known for other books, one of which I read was Bomb: Race to Build and Steal the

The book uses maps and pictures. Maps and pictures are really helpful in visualizing what is being described, and they allow having and idea of how it was during this war.

Wars have always been events that I enjoy learning about, reading about and just discovering what went on. So when this project rolled around I had no problem choosing the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, which was written by Erich Maria Remarque. Erich had been a German soldier towards the end of WWI and had, first hand experienced the pure terror that is war. I had heard of this book through my father who is also a major war enthusiast. Him and I have had numerous conversations about both World War I and II, as he was the one that originally suggested I read this book. I have to say that it was a tremendous suggestion in that this novel to me seems to be one of the finest pieces of anti-war literature ever penned. The way the novel is able to portray the mindset of a soldier was beautifully done and shows the complete deterioration that occurs over time.

The American troops continued to fight against the strongest army and strongest navy on earth and had no intention to surrender. The battle of Baltimore was so inspirational because we stuck out against the strongest military in to world. We pushed and pushed until the British, the BEST, in the world surrendered. In the beginning, we had nothing and the fact that we continued and won one of the most important battles means everything. “The bombing of fort McHenry went on -and on- for 25 hours” This quote shows how fierce the battle was. Obviously, the British had superior cannons but the Americans did not give up. “(The British) commander Robert Ross was killed. The English soldiers were now rudderless.” This quote shows the English soldiers

The Wars, written by Timothy Findley, is a story about World War I, and consists of many shocking images passed over to the reader. Findley accomplishes to pull the reader into the narrative itself, so that the reader manages to feel an impact upon him/her-self about what is read. If it was not for this specific skill, or can also be seen as a specific genre, the novel would not have been as successful as it is now. Also, something that helps the book be so triumphant, there is the fact that Findley never overwhelms the reader with too many gruesome details about the World War I. Instead, he breaks the book down to help the reader calm down from everything that is happening. Throughout the essay, there is going to be some commenting on a

Dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified under the information they had at the time. When criticizing the actions of the Truman administration one needs to consider the effect of knowledge in hindsight. Truman was working under the knowledge that dropping the nuclear bombs would bring a short and fast victory to the Pacific front of the Second World War. As the war had already ended in Europe by this time, leaders were looking to end the campaign in the Pacific as quickly as possible. From a cost benefit perspective dropping the bombs on Japan meant that very few American lives were lost, and the cost of building the bombs compared to the cost of a minimum six month continuation of fighting.Additionally, there was no testing

But this book was different, it had pictures showing you what the writings meant some of the pictures were very difficult to understand but when I went back to the readings it came really clear. Some of the drawing did not make sense or maybe I just did not understand them, but the book is very informative it gives you a clear view and time line of the war, I like how on each paragraph there’s a number on the side that tells you what page you can see the cartoons. But one thing I did not like was the fact they did not show any cartoons of African American soldiers that fought in the war seems like their efforts were not recognized by the United States. Even though after the war the African American soldiers were not awarded the Medal of Honor for fighting in the war so maybe that’s why there were not included in his cartoons.

This was the time when the United States and the Japanese had an extreme rivalry between each other. After the Japanese attacked a US territory, killing 2,403 people, the US promptly declared war on Japan, entering themselves into a second world war after being significantly provoked. Germany and Italy declared war on the US after the US declared war on Japan. Later on, after defeating Germany, the USSR agreed to help the US defeat Japan ninety days after the Nazi surrender, so the US had a six month period before the USSR could come and help them defeat Japan. The US did not want to give up any territory to the USSR like they did with Europe, so the US had to attempt to end the war themselves prior to the ninety days. To end the war between the US and Japan prior to the agreed date by the USSR, J. Robert Oppenheimer invented something that would later murder 105,000 people and injure 94,000 more.

These attacks were not has accuracy as they hope it could be by dropping napalm on the entire area hoping to hit your targets. Many innocent civilians died during these attacks, which only helped to increase the resentment towards the military officers. Military strategies like Operation Rolling Thunder were implemented to try to limit the impact of guerilla warfare, where they bomb the region but at same time seriously limiting the United States chancing of win the war because it look like the United States was aggression and conquest nation. Its look like United States was more concerned with fighting the rebels than protecting the South Vietnamese people. Who they claimed to protect but at the same time three million people were killed and

Over the years, America has been involved in numerous conflicts. One of the most controversial has been the Vietnam War. Even though the United States Military failed in its efforts in the war against Vietnam, the military has learned valuable lessons about our forces during the conflict. Anti-Aircraft weapons were used during the Vietnam War, and their capabilities have increased over time to become what is now called Air Defense. Air Defense’s equipment, units, and personnel played a critical role especially during the ambush on Route 9 of the Vietnam War.

Though Hiroshima 's bombing was a terrible disaster, it undoubtedly brought the Japanese community together. The terror was undeniable, yet through the destruction people sacrificed themselves to save others. In the novel Hiroshima, written by John Hersey, even though many of the main characters are injured, they still stop to help others. The acknowledgement of others pain and suffering and developing empathy and sympathy for them, having the strength to give up your desires for a moment, having respect for yourself and others are qualities of humans that compel them to help others even if there is nothing to gain. It is only when we put faith in ourselves and others that we truly help others.