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. ...
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. ...
Stalin wanted an invasion in western Europe so the germans could not concentrate all their forces against Russia. The invasion of Italy didn't satisfy him, there were to few forces apposing the allies, and Italy was to narrow to make an effective battleground. Besides the Brittish and the Americans ...
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. ...
During World War II, he commanded a PT (torpedo) boat in the Pacific. When the boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in August 1943, Kennedy, despite serious injuries, led the surviving crew through miles of perilous waters to safety. ... On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated by rifle fire while being driven in an open car through Dallas, Texas. ...
This blunder essentially opened up a two-front war, one in the west, and now one in the east, a tactic that Germany saw unsuccessful in the first World War. ... At the time, the U.S. was the leading industrial power and could out produce any other nation, which they did with tanks, aircrafts, naval boats and other goods. ...
Hay's idea became known as "The Open Door Policy". ... After the chaos of the boxer rebellion Hay called for an expanded "Open Door Policy," for all parts of China. ... One year later, German U-boats sank the Sussex and American citizens were outraged, this was the last straw. ...
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! ...
