Saipan

In 2006, the film Flags of our Fathers was released by Clint Eastwood, where it’s a diptych movie about the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945 following the American perspective during the war, and a few months later the Japanese perspective was released with letters of Iwo Jima. The film Flags, follows the life of the three surviving American flag-raisers in Joe Rosenthal’s famous photograph “Raising the flag on Iwo Jima” in 1945, where the scenes in the film shifts between the battle and home fronts in

Ever since humans stepped foot on this Earth we have been wired into believing what is right and what is wrong. Right and wrong originated with an opinion, therefore making the world we live in completely flawed. Everything we perceive to be the right thing to do, could have possibly been the opposite if someone had said so. Today, right and wrong is based off of the majority of society and what we believe affects what we chose to do. There is no right or wrong, not even morals, just actions. Humans

O’Brien truly displays what it is to live by the Army Values and the Warriors Ethos on June 21, 28 and July 7 of 1944. He displays leadership, personal courage, self-service, “I will always place the Mission first, I will never accept defeat”, “I will never quit”, “and I will never leave a fallen comrade” (“The Soldier's Creed and the Warrior Ethos”, 2016). O’Brien never quits, taking a chance with his life, watching over his men; giving them trust, and giving orders to his fellow soldiers and going

the four met, their relationships started out rocky and through the common grounds of music(Anderson and Whitehorse) and Catholic upbringings (Enders and Yahtzee), they start to grow fond of each other. In Whitehorse and Yahtzee's first combat in Saipan, we see the significance of the Navajo code talkers. Yahzee’s radio is destroyed by the American artillery which leaves him and Enders acting as a Japanese soldier and American prisoners. They fool and eliminate the Japanese soldiers so they can use

War literature derives much of its impact from the fact that many readers will never have (and are never likely to) experienced the subject matter themselves. It has been postulated that poets such as Ciardi have been damaged psychologically by what they have seen and felt. In his case much of the evidence for this lies in his abandonment of his war diary, leaving it unfinished. Readers derive meaning from the unwritten words and see it as evidence of the concept that war is an exclusive experience

Japan joined the Axis Powers in 1940,which consisted of Germany, Japan, and Italy. They believed that they were the superior race of the world and would win the war with the alliance of the Axis Powers. Japan had held resentment towards the United States after an embargo was placed on Japan for taking over northern French Indochina. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, they wanted to defeat the U.S. Navy so that they could advance to Malaysia. However, Japan attacked the base knowing that Japan is closer

Growing up in a close-knit family molded me into the person I am today. My parents played a significant role in our household as they never failed in being there for me and my siblings. As the eldest and only daughter, I enjoyed the feeling of security and comfort of their presence. On more than one occasion, I felt confident that I would be able to survive without my parents around because I figured I was not a “kid” anymore. They will be happy to learn that that was not the case when I travelled

he Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest and fiercest battles of the Second World War in which the US Armed Forces captured the Iwo Jima Island from the Japanese. More than 6800 American servicemen lost their lives in the battle and thus the battle has come to known as the deadliest battle in Marine Corps history. Iwo Jima was an island strategically positioned and highly fortified as its three airfields were used to stage attacks on the US at the Pacific War. It was therefore Americas target

History sucks. I do not mean the events that have taken place. I mean the gibberish one often has to sort through to get to the truth about an event. The internet is useful for research, and often provides instant access to necessary information. Considering how vast the internet is however, and the questionable relevance of the information it contains, it just might be wise to proceed at your own risk. Approaching internet sources, and any source for that matter, can be summarized with this:

The first commissioned aircraft carrier, the USS Langley, made its debut in 1922 (Petty, The Carriers). From then after, navies across the world continued to improve and add these platforms to their fleets. With 19 aircraft carriers from nine countries steaming across the world, carriers are a prominent representation of a county’s naval power (Mizokami). The United States Navy (USN) alone boasts 10 Nimitz Class supercarriers propelled by twin nuclear reactors, allowing each carrier to steam across