Andrew Jackson Higgins opened Higgins Industries on September 26, 1930 to begin selling his new designs of shallow draft watercraft. ... Higgins" boats were by far the best boat tested despite four minor imperfections. ... To solve problems such as this, the military agreed with Higgins" idea to open a school to teach enlisted and officers proper operating techniques. In July of 1941, Higgins Boat Operators and Marine Engine Maintenance School was opened. ... If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach. ...

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The first victory that came to the German U-boats was over the British liner Athenia (Pitt, 8). ... The most important import that Britain was receiving was their oil that was critical to the running of any war machines that Britain had, without oil that was being ship through thousands of miles of open sea, Britain would not be a threat in the war (Pitt, 17). ... By the time the first and second fleets of U-boats had arrived in Cape Hatteras, 46 United States ships had been sunk and only one U-boat had been lost (Jordan, 107). ... Technology and air support also helped in the reduction of the...

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HE IS STANDING ON THE ROOF OF THE BOAT NOW. ... CAME WITHIN 200YRD OF THE UPTURNED BOAT. WHEN THE RESCUE TEAM ARRIVED AT THE BOAT THE FIRST THINGS THEY DID WAS BANG ON THE BOAT WITH A HAMMER. ... TONY DID NOT WAIT FOR THE TEAM TO CUT OPEN THE BOAT. ... HE DIVED UNDER THE WATER, KICKED THE DOOR OPEN & TRIED TO NOT GET CAUGHT UP IN LOOSE ROPES. ...

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The new weapons were machine guns, mortars, poison gases, tanks, airplanes, and u-boats. ... Other new machines were tanks, airplanes, and u-boats. ... U-boats were under water boats that were mostly used for suicide missions. ... The U-boats also fired torpedoes that destroyed other ships. ... For infantry to attack across open ground against trenches defended by plentiful machine guns was simply mass suicide. ...

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The Germans cause to attack the liner was that it was secretly carrying weapons therefore it was a reasonable target for the Germans to attack, however, their unrestricted U-boat warfare in 1915 (ended after U.S declare it is an "infringement of the freedom of the seas" 1916) was going to cost them dearly when in 1917 they restarted this campaign. The unrestricted U-boat campaign was a German declaration that said that allied ships would be sunk without warning, to America this seemed barbaric and directly violated the Monroe Doctrine. ... The Germans were anxious not to alienate America and n...

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Americans had been concerned about the Open Door policy toward China and the possession of the Philippine Islands. ... The U-Boat threat was also an issue because American ships went down as a result of it. ... Wilson's decision was ultimately changed when Germany began its plan for U-boats to sink on sight all ships. ...

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So when he opened up again - the Germans, when they fire, they fire fast, they don't fire like we did, because they change the barrels of their machine guns in seconds. ... He went so far as to assemble a fleet of barges along the French coast, planning to use them as assault boats. ... This was that the built-up seaports, like Dieppe, were too well fortified to be attacked successfully, and that the great assault should aim for open beaches. ... The men in the first boat sections observed the results of many actions they had heard practically nothing about. ... The men in the landing boa...

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The Allies began landing on the eastern coast of Italy attempting to open the road to Rome. ... By spring 1944 Allied bombers were pounding Germany and the German U-Boats were no longer a threat. ... Prior to May of 1943 the Germans were used their U-Boat threat to help maintain several weather stations throughout the Atlantic. After May of 1943 with the lose of their U-Boat threat the Germans were largely ignorant of the weather patterns. ...

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In response, Roosevelt ordered the Navy to shoot back at the German boats and submarines. ... The war led to prosperity as more industries came up, employment opportunities rose, and most importantly, the gates to higher learning were opened....

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Ships and u-boats played a huge role in all of World War II. ... This ship was used for fighting, carrying troops, and could even serve as a dock for smaller boats. ... U-boats or submarines had been invented years earlier, but did not have the firepower to sink any large vessels. ... These torpedoes could be fired from most all u-boats, and could sink even the largest of ships. ... "Opened fire on their own aircraft, an not uncommon practice in Normandy, when suffering at the hands of their own pilots" (Fussel 181). ...

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The Two Ocean War by Samuel E. Morison is a extraordinary masterpiece on the history of U.S navel operations in World War II. The Book is illustrated with 35 Photographs and 54 charts and maps of key engagements. The novel has precise records Of the battle from Pearl Harbor to the war of attrition...

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Women got to like work and were hoping for this avenue to stay open for them even after the war had ended. ... The boat they were in sunk causing 12 of them to drown, the others made it to shore and spent two days on an island. ... The Japanese took them down the beach and opened fire! ...

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He worked semi-officially, through the US Embassy in Cuba patrolling the seas searching for German submarines on his own boat the Pilar. ... Congress, controlled by the Democrats was very open to FDR's ideas and accepted nearly everything put forward by the President. ...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing could happen is to go back to where it all started. At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. ...

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Septimus Warren Smith and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway Works Cited Dowling, David. Mrs. Dalloway: Mapping Streams of Consciousness. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishing, 1991. ...

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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...

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