The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki appear not to be the result of one large explosion, but rather the result of a fire-bombing campaign comparable in pictures to Tokyo’s fire-bombed remains. Hiroshima and Nagasaki also never experienced anything like the hundreds or thousands of years of...
More About This Book Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story Caren Stelson Sachiko Yasui was just six years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her hometown of Nagasaki. This true story begins with the day of the bombing and follows as Sachiko loses family and friends to the bombing...
Conrad’s a great one for that,” Joe laughed. “Whenever I do that he just ignores me completely. Artistic temperament. That’s why we’re gonna have him dropped in the Nagasaki River!”
Vietnam War, shows a group of Vietnamese children – including 9-year-old Phan The Kim Phuc – fleeing the village of Trang Bang, which had just been firebombed by South Vietnamese aircraft. The photo inspired the popular protest slogan “NAPALM STICKS TO KIDS” and focused outrage on ...
World War II was one of themost brutal and deadly warsin world history. One of the biggest events of the war was the dropping of the atomic bomb. In August 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the strategic and military explanations for...
Consider the consequences of defeat on D-Day. The Allies would have lost their almost irreplaceable fleet of landing craft . . . Britain would have sacrificed her last available army. It would have taken at least another year, well into the summer of 1945, before another invasion could have...
year1939andcontinuedtilltheyear1945.It hadallthegreatpowersoftheworld,dividing thewarintotwomilitaryalliances.TheAllies werethecountrieslikeBritain,France,andthe UnitedStates,whiletheAxispowershad Germany,Italy,andJapan. TheSovietUnionbeganthewarontheAxis ...
Imagine the money that spent on the oil. I have read posts on social media where some American people complaining they can't afford a dentist because they have no dental care. So they have to endure the pains. A girl friend there told me she couldn't go to college l...
The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki appear not to be the result of one large explosion, but rather the result of a fire-bombing campaign comparable in pictures to Tokyo’s fire-bombed remains. Hiroshima and Nagasaki also never experienced anything like the hundreds or thousands of years of...
Much like World War I, the Allies targeted German citizens to hasten the end of the conflict. The British and American forcesfirebombed the German city of Dresdenbecause it was one of Germany’s industrial capitals. The bombing destroyed the nation’s railways system, aircraft factories, and ot...