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    same day, that the Allies, “secured the Italian island of Pantelleria.”(“Davis leads the 99th into Combat”). It continues, stating,” The unit scored its first aerial victory against the Luftwaffe on July 2 when Lt. Charles B. Hall shot down a Focke Wulf Fw 190 on his eighth

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    P-51 Mustang: A Fighter and an Escort changes the course of World War II Theodore M. Aarstad Jr. United States Army Aviation Warrant Officer Career College Abstract [The abstract should be one paragraph of between 150 and 250 words. It is not indented. Section titles, such as the word Abstract above, are not considered headings so they don’t use bold heading format. Instead, use the Section Title style. This style automatically starts your section on a new page, so you don’t have to add page breaks

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    Bob Hoover History

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    aircraft in a spitfire. Sadly, Hoover would eventually meet his match. On his 59 nth in 1944 attempt in a dogfight, he was shot down by a german Focke-Wulf Fw 190. After being shot down, he was taken as a P.O.W. However, the germans forgot what a skilled pilot Hoover was as one day, 16 months after his capturing, Hoover spotted another Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and made a successful escape in the same aircraft that he was shot down with. Hoover did not stop there. After he escaped, he was stationed at Wright

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    Throughout American history, it is evident that racism controls socioeconomic classes up until the Civil Rights movement. Racism caused a separation between white people and people of color in which non-whites were seen as inferior to white people; this caused events, as slavery, to occur and when slavery ended, segregation began. From 1896 to 1964 black people faced segregation; they were separated from whites in restaurants, schools, and in the military and no black people served in the Air Corps

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    AJ Jefferson Ms. Taylor Language Arts/ Social Studies March 11, 2015 Aircraft, Machinery, and Submarines of WWII World War II was one of the biggest epidemics in the history of humanity. From Hitler to Franklin D. Roosevelt there were problems world wide.(submarine) These problems eventually led up to the outbreak of war, this war wasn’t any ordinary war either. It was brutal to say the least, with over twenty million deaths worldwide it nearly killed off one percent of the world population (Sheehan)

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    Weapons In The Odyssey

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    The way that weapons were depicted in the book is that they were a destructive force to be reckoned with. They were portrayed as something bad people, aka the Japs, Nazis, and Italians, used. Airplanes, on the other hand, were given a good rep at the beginning of the book when they went out and did destructive damage for the Allies. But when they were used to shoot at the Allies, they were thought to be the weapons of Satan himself. Resolving at the end of the book though, they were finally thought

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    Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in total war, deployed with the goal of defeating the enemy, by destroying their morale or their economic ability to produce and transport material to the theatres of military operations. The four areas in which the significance of Allied strategic bombing will be assessed are: economic, diplomacy, morale and the effect it had on the fighting fronts in Europe. The First area of strategic bombing to be assessed is the effect it had on scattering the

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