B-24 Liberator

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propaganda tool by the Japanese, a scenario that likely saved him from execution. For months Zamperini lived in daily fear of the man he came to regard as an inhuman monster. But late in 1944 Watanabe was posted to another camp. In March 1945, with American B-29 bombers raining incendiaries over Tokyo, Zamperini and a group of fellow prisoners were moved to a camp known as 4B at Naoetsu, an industrial village on Japan’s west coast. On arrival Zamperini was dismayed to find that Watanabe, too, had been transferred

The United States Air Force This paper deals with the contributions of the United States Air Force to the eventual victory of the Allies in Europe during World War II. The Allied powers had no idea how important a strong air force would be against the Axis powers during World War II. The fact that Hitler moved east in 1941 and had planned to do so since 1940, had important implications for the British war effort. Though still powerless to prevent German initiatives

world war two pilot. His plane was a b-24 liberator “the super man” it was a very buggy plane ;the bomb hatch door wouldn't always close and the engines were so sensitive that if a leaf went in the engine it would explode. One of the men would call it a flying coffin. As cramped as it was it had a nose gunner, a ball turret gunner on the bottom , a tail gunner, two waist gunners on each side and a bomb bay in the middle. Malfunctions were the worst enemy of the b-24’s. The super man had recorded some

Louie Zamperini Louie Zamperini wasn’t the brightest kid in his neighborhood, nor the smartest, but he was the fastest. Bent on making it to the olympics, and there forth breaking the four minute mile; there is nothing in the world that can stop him. Except World War 2. Enlisted as a bombardier, he finds himself in the middle of the ocean. Hundreds of miles from land, he has to endure the unbearable. His determination, persistence, and strive for life is the real runner inside of him that never

Fighting for Freedom: Through the Decades “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” -G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton’s quote relates to every war that the United States has ever fought; from the Revolutionary War all the way up through the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Most wars are not fought out of hatred, but because soldiers are protecting civilians throughout their country. Soldiers stand as a guard and create a barrier

On July 28, 1935, the first porotype of the B-17 or also known as the B-299 took off from Boeing Field in south Seattle on its first ever test flight (Boeing “B-17”). Seattle Times reporter Richard Smith dubbed the new plane, with its many .30 caliber machine-guns, the “Flying Fortress,” (qtd.in Boeing). A name that Boeing quickly adopted and trademarked for the gigantic bomber (Boeing “B-17”). The U.S. Army Air Corps designated the plane as the B-17. Boeing created the plane in response to the

What makes a good leader? Political skill, toughness, honesty? Toussaint Louverture had all of the following abilities. Toussaint Louverture was born, sometime during the 1740s and was a slave for the first few years of his life working as a herder, then a coachmen, and finally as an overseer of his fellow slaves in plantations. By 1793, he commanded a rebel army against French forces on the island of Hispaniola. However, Napoleon Bonaparte had risen to power in France and was planning to bring

B-17 and B-24 in World War II The model B-17 and B-24 airplanes are widely known as the most iconic American bomber planes that were used in World War II. The airplanes were manufactured by separate companies, and both produced over a ten year period with several thousands of each manufactured. Without the introduction of these airplanes, the aerial combat of World War II would have changed drastically and could potentially have changed the outcome of the war. The B-17 was manufactured by Boeing

was generally comparable to the B-17, but for one major advantage. Thanks to auxiliary fuel tanks and slender, ultraefficient Davis wings, it could fly literally all day, a decisive asset in the sprawling World War II theaters. Flat-faced, rectangular, and brooding, the B-24 had looks only a myopic mother could love. Crewmen gave it a host of nicknames, among them “the Flying Brick,” “the Flying Boxcar,” and “the Constipated Lumberer,” a play on Consolidated Liberator. The cockpit was oppressively