... primarily as a defensive weapon of its infantry forces. The armor divisions used it as a second armament in many combat vehicles. Army and Navy Air Forces (the U.S. Air Force had not been formed yet) used the M2 almost to the exclusion of all other machine gun. All forces used the M2 as a ... barrel was rifles for greater accuracy, and kicked a 24-pound shell up to 4,500 yards in 60 seconds. Skilled operators could have seven shells in the air before the first found its target (268). Mortar operation became almost an art form. During the fighting in Italy, the first "hole-in-one" was ......

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... just a few of these technological advances in the weapons being used in the current conflict with Iraq. The B-52H Stratofortress is one of the United States Air Force's most consistent bombers. It is an old airplane, but it is the most capable long-range strike platforms that we are using in the current War ... cockpit (kind of makes it the deadly RV of the sky). The B-52H is the workhorse of the modern United States Air Force. During this 2003 campaign it is flying from Britain and launched air launched cruise missiles - (ACLMs) on Baghdad. The Tomahawk Cruise Missile, RGM/UGM 109, is ...

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... resulted in additional deliveries of small arms and ammunition, light aircraft, military vehicles, and equipment for military factories. In addition, Spanish could now be heard on the airwaves of Czechoslovakian air training areas. The CIA now had evidence that Cuban pilots were being trained in Czechoslovakia. Thus it came as no surprise when, in mid-1961, CIA sources gained intelligence of ... transport aircraft, including the light bomber IL-28 and the state of the art MIG-15s, 17s and 19s. It was clear by then that a major upgrade of the Cuban air forces was in progress. Soviet spok...

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... over obstacles. The fastest firing weapon was the M-60. It was the only gun that reloaded by itself. These guns were mounted and were placed on fighter planes for air-to-air combat. The most maneuverable fighter plane was the Sopwith Camel. Tanks were invented by Britain and were first tested during World War One. There were many vehicles used in World ... Normandy, we must blast our way onshore and get a good lodgment before he can bring up sufficient reserves to turn us out. While we are engaged in doing this, the air must hold the ring and must make very difficult the movement of ene...

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... scenes, characters, and actions all represent either a political message or some sort of stereotypical thinking of that time. The first scene is when Strategic Air Commander General Jack D. Ripper orders Plan R, an emergency war plan that allows a commander to order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack, on the ... will signal the B-52 bombers. Once the bombers are on the way, General Ripper seals off all communication, including telephone calls from the Air Force and the President. This scene definitely shows a political message, and it is that the US was extremely nervous and worri...

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... , including Kennedy's brother, Bobby Kennedy, wanted to find a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. Other members, mostly military generals' wanted to launch immediate air strikes on Cuba followed by an invasion which the plans for were already in place. The code name for this was "OPERATION MONGOOSE." In the ... missiles from Cuba, the US would not.................. cuba. On the 27th October 1962, forces shot down a US U2 spy plane. A ground to air missile was launched at the plane from inside Cuba. Krushchev told Kennedy that the missile was fired without any orders. This just made ...

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... next target swept through Hiroshima, other cities such as Kure, Iwakuni, Tokuyama, and other nearby towns were air raided by B-29 also known as Mr.B. Constant air-raid warnings went off everytime a United State weather plane flew by. They got so used to the air-raid warning that when it did go off they just ignored it and continued on with daily activities ... , beds were overturned, windows had blown in and cut people. Blood was splattered everywhere, many of the patients were screaming, and many more lay dead. Dr. Sasaki thought the enemy air plane only attacked the hospital, he was to...

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... . This developement now produced a blockformation between East and West. The years 1948 and 1949 brought more events, for example the blockade of Berlin and the air lift of the west allies. Some months later in 1949 the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was founded. At the latest point of time, the ... of advisors met to talk about the further going on. Hereby two possibilities came into nearer view.The destruction of the russian missile bases by an air attack was found out as too risky so the preferred alternative to build up an 800 miles big quarantine zone was taken. 22.10. JF...

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... well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air. The Manhattan Project eventually skyrocketed into a two billion dollar program that was always funded by the United States government. It was pushed forward extremely quickly ... mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined. Seconds after the explosion came first the air blast pressing hard against the people, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained awesome ...

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... also felt that no matter what, Japan would lose the war. Atomic Bomb, or no Atomic Bomb, Japan would soon be defeated. The Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said, "The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own ... air." (Page 334). Though Arnold felt the dropping of the bomb was unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's ... job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General...

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... the speed of sound. (The Atomic Bomb (2001). Geo Cities.) The hypocenter is the greatest amount of pressure-exerted witch is about 35 tonnes per sq. meter and the max air speed was 440 meters per second. As the blast moves away from the center its intensity decreases. As the blast subsided after blowing from the center, a vacuum of ... air and pressure generated in the center. The reversed winds begin blowing towards the center from outside areas with the intensity of another blast. When the bomb explodes it produces a ball ... after the bombing of Nagasaki. (Windle J. T. (2001) unnec...

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... going under the plane isn't checked. That means 5% of all the luggage is checked. A person could easily put a bomb on their main luggage, and have it go off in the air. You would think this would have changed by now, but do to the cost of the machine that checks bags, and do to it's bulky size, only 50 out of ... the 450 nation wide airports have the machine. The machine costs over 1.5 million dollar. With what's been happening with the air lines lately, the airports cant afford the machine. Some of the airports that have the machine don't even run it some of the time. Luggage has got t...

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... option was to warn Cuba to get the missiles out and if they don't abide, to bomb Cuba with an air attack destroying all the missiies7then following up with an invasion. The second choice was a sneek^attack to come in with an air attack and destroy all the mfssnes, then follow up with an invasion, and the third choice was to form ... not be safe, in that if all the missiles were not destroyed there may be a nuclear exchange between the two countries. JFK felt as if we were to pull a sneek air attack on Cube that it would look to the rest of the world that America was just a "big bully" p...

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... bombs built. The "Little Boy- is one of the too atomic bombs. This bomb is a Uranium bomb. The "Little Boy- produced a tremendous amount of energy in terms of sound and air pressure. It also produced an enormous amount of radiation. The Gamma rays and the neutrons of the "Little Boy- caused devastating human injuries. "The Little Boy- is a nickname for the ... have died trying to take over Japan. There were enormous amounts of energy generated by the explosions. Half of the energy was used when the explosion generated an ultra high air pressure. This is the cause of the very strong bomb...

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... also felt that no matter what, Japan would lose the war. Atomic Bomb, or no Atomic Bomb, Japan would soon be defeated. The Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said, "The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own ... air." (Page 334). Though Arnold felt the dropping of the bomb was unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's ... job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General...

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... Castro would be removed from office by his own people and not by any United States personnel. What cost the success of the mission was that the U.S. neglected to provide air cover for the troops. Of the 2000 troops, 300 were killed and the rest were taken prisoner. Evidently, Kennedy did not want another Bay of Pigs, so he elected to ... and disarm the opponent at the same time. If the U.S.S.R. had active nuclear missile bases in Cuba, many Americans feared that the Soviets could make an attempt take out our air bases without our even realizing it until it was too late. In being so clos...

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... of Cuba. Newly inaugurated President John F. Kennedy approved this invasion. "April 14, 1961, a group of B-26 bombers, which were piloted by Cuban exiles, attacked air bases in Cuba. This raid was designed to destroy most of Castro's air power before the land invasion was to take place. On April 17, 1961, the land invasion of Cuba took place at the Bay of ... the Cuban missile crisis. "On October 14, 1962, United States spy planes spotted the first ballistic missile on Cuba. President Kennedy decided to take action. He had several options, invasion, air strikes, a blockades, or diplomac...

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... peak...of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that...the great poets dream about but describe most poorly and inadequately. Thirty seconds after the explosion came, first, the air blast pressing hard against people and things, to be followed almost immediately by the strong, sustained, awesome roar which warned of doomsday and made us feel that we puny things ... aircraft very heavy. No one was sure if the Enola Gay could be able to lift off the ground, so the final assembly of the bomb was done in the air. The people of Hiroshima were on their ways to work, just after 8...

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... and if they bombed it, the inevitable result would be that Japan would be driven into the arms of the Russians. Stimson stated that his intention was to get the air- force to do precision bombing, in other words bombings of military/ industrial targets rather than civilian targets. Stimson was having a major problem with his bombing strategy because Japan had a method ... . This was burdening him because firstly, he didn't want the USA's actions to outweigh the severity of Hitler's. Secondly he feared that by the time the bomb was ready, the air force might already have thoroughly bombed...

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... .grolier.com) Hiroshima was a major industrial city with an estimated population of almost 400,000 people. A B-29 bomber was loaded with the Atomic Bomb and left the United States Pacific air base at 2:45 a.m. local time and dropped the bomb at 8:15 a.m. The bomb was detonated one minute after being dropped. The atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy", which was dropped on ... . Most of the people exposed to thermal rays died. In addition, the impact of the bomb landing on the ground created an enormous shock wave closely followed a quick expansion of air. The result was the immediate death o...

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... also felt that no matter what, Japan would lose the war. Atomic Bomb, or no Atomic Bomb, Japan would soon be defeated. The Commanding General of the United States Army Air Forces, Henry H. "Hap" Arnold said, "The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own ... air." (Page 334). Though Arnold felt the dropping of the bomb was unnecessary, he felt there were political implications in the decision and he did not feel it was the military's ... job to question it. Among some of the Air Force leaders, Major General...

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... citizens are effected by something that happened in a matter of seconds, the dropping of the first atomic bomb. In the beginning of August citizens of Hiroshima grew tired of countless air raid warnings and began to ignore them. Though on August 6th 1945, American troops dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. No one understood what had happened and ... her left leg and broke it. Miss Sasaki had laid under books, wood, and plaster for three hours until she came to. She was brought to one of the factory's air-raid shelters and was propped up against iron. Eventually Miss Sasaki ...

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... WWII era felt about nuclear war, and the after effects, and what they would do to see that our population does not die off. The movie begins with on the Air Force Base commanded by General Jack D. Ripper. Ripper is an insane General who is about to cause the destruction of the world. Ripper instructs his ... Air Force Battalion to begin Plan R, which commands the pilots and crew to drop nuclear bombs on there specified targets over Russia. Once the plan is put into effect the planes ... ...

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... of an instant, 66,00 people were killed and 69,000 people were injured by as ten kiloton explosion. Little Boy generated and enormous amount of energy in terms of air pressure, heat, and radiation. The strong wind generated by the bomb destroyed most of the houses and buildings within a 1.5-mile radius. The wind generated by Little Boy caused the most ... wrote A People's History of the United States. In his book, he says that the 'estimates of invasion losses were not realistic, and seem to have been pulled out of the air to justify bombing which, as their effects became known, horrifi...

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... war. The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki reached 40,000 feet within four minutes of the explosion. The expanding fireball caused a shock wave of compressed air and wind as it continued to expand, bringing immediate destruction. The superheated air and winds fan the fires started by the thermal pulse leaving a wide area of destruction. The atomic bomb over Nagasaki caused earth-leveling devastation ... ...

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