These photos will be great for your report. Teachers get tired reading reports and sometimes prefer just to look at pictures. You could also draw and color your own pictures.
Posted on 12/05/2005 10:01:04 AM PST by BluAngel
i am trying to do a paper on world war two and im have trouble finding information i have tried google and am not getting the information i need from it... any suggestions?
"Well, I'm sure if you explain to the returns counter, they'll give you a partial credit on that expensive set of words you used..."
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I'm looking for a job. I need all the liberal sounding phrases I can get.
Rude, crude, and tattooed. One thing about getting older and fatter is there is more room for new tattooes. It is amazing how some things just work out perfectly.
This isn't CHAT!
whats a ee cummings?
signed
bluangul
archy! is that you?
2 words: Pubic Screwl
Bien sur! Ceci est un CHAT.
East or west of the international date line?
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(USS Panay, November 1937. On the River near Shanghai China.
(My grandfather was on the riverboat behind it, and helped pulled dead and wounded US sailors out of the river.)
From another web site: http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/PR/pr5-sinking.html
U.S.S. Panay was one of five small, shoal-draft river gunboats that had been built about ten years earlier, primarily for patrolling the Yangtze in order to protect American commerce and American nationals during the Chinese civil war.[12] They were used to being fired upon (and seldom hit) by irresponsible guerrilla bands of Chinese,[13] but what happened to Panay was deliberately planned by responsible Japanese officers.
On 21 November 1937, when Japanese forces were approaching Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek's foreign office notified the American Embassy that it must prepare to evacuate. The Ambassador and most of the personnel left next day in U.S.S. Luzon; the rest stuck it out for another week, when they decided to depart in Panay. Ambassador Grew so notified the Japanese government on 1 December. On the 11th the gunboat embarked the American officials together with a number of civilians, and started upriver, escorting three Standard Oil barges that also wished to escape. Two British gunboats and a few other British craft followed the same course. For two miles this little flotilla was fired upon repeatedly by a shore battery commanded by Colonel Hashimoto, one of the ringleaders in the assassinations and a prominent Kodo man. His object was to provoke the United States into a declaration of war, which would eliminate civilian influence from the Japanese government and complete the "Showa Restoration." The shooting was so wild that Panay and her convoy, making slow speed against the current, pulled out of range without suffering a hit. An advanced Army unit notified naval authorities that Chinese troops were fleeing the capital in ten ships.
At 1100 next morning (12 December 1937) Panay and the three tankers anchored near Hoshien, upstream from Nanking. American flags were hoisted on their masts and painted on the awnings and topsides. The day was clear, sunny and still. Panay's ate their Sunday dinner and secured. No guns were manned or even uncovered. Shortly after 1330, three Japanese Navy bombing planes flew overhead and released eighteen bombs, one of which disabled Panay's forward 3-inch gun, wrecked the pilothouse, sick bay and fire room, wounded the captain (Lieutenant Commander J.J. Hughes) and several others. Immediately after, twelve more planes dive-bombed and nine fighters strafed, making several runs over a space of twenty minutes. She fought back with her .30-cal. machine guns. By 1406 all power and propulsion were lost, the main deck was awash and, as Captain Hughes saw that his ship was going down, he ordered her to be abandoned. Japanese planes strafed the boats on their way to shore, and even combed the reeds along the riverbank for survivors. Two of the three oil barges were also bombed and destroyed. The Panay survivors, kindly treated by the Chinese, managed to get word through to Admiral Yarnell and were taken on board U.S.S. Oahu and H.M.S. Ladybird two days later. Two bluejackets and one civilian passenger died of their wounds; eleven officers and men were seriously wounded.[14]
Check nbr 251 for 1st attack on US ship in WWII.
To tell you the truth, Bonaparte taught me everything I know about "World Two" and I'm pinging Bonaparte to my photos in the event he can add to them.
Bonaparte, Bluangel seems to have a fascination with Germany and Germans.
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I think her Google search for "world two" was the problem.
"I think her Google search for "world two" was the problem."
Actually, not at all. Try it. It gets really good hits.
That's without the quotation marks, of course. With them, it's useless. However, our poster probably can't make those keys work.
Start capitalizing.
The first few hits are pretty good. /;-)
ROFL!
Loved that!
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