Kessler Airforce Base by James Williams https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs Kessler Airforce base during World War 2 en-us 2017-01-26 01:02:57 UTC 2026-02-25 04:46:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png Picture #1 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/149491757 This is a plane that was used to drop bombs and carry troops]]> 2017-01-26 01:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/149491757 Picture #2 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/149492781 Many of the barracks had bunks like these in many of the rooms.]]> 2017-01-26 01:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/149492781 Picture #4 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/150097060 after you are put in those groups you are put in your official flight team]]> 2017-01-29 16:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/150097060 Picture #3 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/150097522 When you graduate from millitary school you get place in a group for a period of time.]]> 2017-01-29 16:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/150097522 Picture #4 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/150097869 The Barracks on Keesler Airforce base.]]> 2017-01-29 16:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/150097869 The Start Of World War Two jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152351643 December 7,1941 the Japanese send 50 planes on the first attack of Pearl Harbor, they destroyed most of the U.S.A's pacific fleet.]]> 2017-02-08 02:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152351643 July 19,1941 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152546640
On July 19, 1941, Capt Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., reported to Tuskegee Institute in Alabama with 12 aviation cadets to begin flight training as the first class of African American pilot candidates. They would eventually become known as the Tuskegee Airmen.]]> 2017-02-08 17:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152546640 Lt. Bong December 27,1942 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152547691
Flying a P–38 against the Japanese, Lt Bong scored his first two aerial victories on December 27, 1942. By the end of the war, he had shot down 40 enemy aircraft, making him the top U.S. ace of all time.

]]> 2017-02-08 17:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152547691 DooLittle Raid jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152548862 The first U.S. air raid on Japan took place on April 18, 1942, when Col James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle led 16 B–25s on a bombing mission over Tokyo known as the Doolittle Raid. For leading the mission, Col Doolittle was awarded the Medal of Honor.]]> 2017-02-08 17:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152548862 Maj Charles B. Hall jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152549588 On July 2, 1943, the young Tuskegee Airman shot down a German FW-190, becoming the first African American U.S. pilot to shoot down an enemy airplane]]> 2017-02-08 17:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152549588 Lt Col Jacqueline Cochran jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152550721 Accomplished pilot Lt Col Cochran was appointed as the first director of the new Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) on August 5, 1943.]]> 2017-02-08 17:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152550721 April 25,1944 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152551490 2nd Lt Carter Harman of the 1st Air Commando Group leads the first combat rescue mission by helicopter when he saves a fellow commando and three British soldiers after their aircraft went down in the Burmese jungle.]]> 2017-02-08 17:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152551490 September 14,1944 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152552155 Piloting a Douglas A-20, Col Floyd B. Wood, Maj Harry Wexler and 1st Lt Frank Reckord became the first crew to fly into a hurricane in order to collect scientific data.]]> 2017-02-08 17:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152552155 General of the Airforce Henry H. Arnold jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152552590 On December 21, 1944, Gen. Henry “Hap” Arnold became the first and only Airman to ever achieve the rank of five-star General.]]> 2017-02-08 17:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152552590 Ending World War Two August 6,1945 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152553115 Piloting the Enola Gay, Col Paul W. Tibbets and his crew dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, a second one was dropped on Nagasaki forcing the Japanese to surrender.]]> 2017-02-08 17:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/152553115 artifact #1 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031229 A tank that was found in the woods of Europe from World War Two]]> 2017-02-20 23:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031229 Artifact #2 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031440 helmets that German Airforce pilots used.]]> 2017-02-20 23:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031440 Artifact #3 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031556 Bullets that were found by an civilian with a metal detector in their backyard]]> 2017-02-20 23:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031556 Artifact #4 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031831 Old bomb found in Germany from World War Two ]]> 2017-02-20 23:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155031831 Artifact #5 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155032378 A hand axe from the national World War 2 musuem in New Orleans.]]> 2017-02-21 00:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155032378 journal entree #1 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155929603 Dec 7,1941,
    I am an Air force pilot who just got stationed at pearl harbor. I am going to get breakfast when one of my friends watching the radar saw 50 blips heading toward us. We all thought it was a joke until..BOOM! One bomb was dropped on a plane right next to mine.

 Then it was total chaos. I ran to an underground bunker until I didn't hear any thing. I came out and people were running around screaming. This is truly " A Day That Will Live in Infamy"]]> 2017-02-23 23:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155929603 journal entree #2 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155930722 July 2- July 3,1943,
   For the first time a Tuskegee Airman shot down a German FW- 190. He became the first African American to shoot down an Enemy plane.This marked history! The next day we celebrated this Advance.

     Me and some of the other Tuskegee Airman threw a party for him. We celebrated with food cake and drinks. I went to my bunker and went straight to sleep hoping that the war would end soon...]]> 2017-02-24 00:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155930722 journal entree #3 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155932343     July 5,1945,
I am helping fix the plane that will be bombing Japan in less that a month. We hope that it will make them surrender. This will be huge.
     
 This plane is huge! Japan has to surrender. We warn them by send and dropping these sheets of paper warning the citizens to leave town or there will be mass destruction. Then comes August 6,1945.]]> 2017-02-24 00:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/155932343 Picture #5 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156252208 group picture of the Tuskegee airmen]]> 2017-02-26 16:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156252208 picture #7 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156252480 poster of one of the Tuskegee Airmen]]> 2017-02-26 16:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156252480 journal entree #4 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156252566 August 6,1945,
  We warned them many times but they chose no to surrender. Now flying in to a city of japan named Hiroshima is a plane carrying a bomb named   little boy. As it is dropped mass destruction was ahead. All of a sudden in the mist of time Hiroshima is destroyed. Mass Destruction!
    
Three days later another bomb was dropped but on the city of Nagasaki. Same as Hiroshima this city went down. Then, we were about to bomb Japans capital Tokyo but Japan surrendered! This ended World War Two!]]> 2017-02-26 16:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156252566 journal entree #5 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156254253 September 2,1945,
   Japan surrendered to the United States! World War two has ended! As we return home many women are awaiting our arrival. When we get there it is alot of hugging a kissing.
        
America is the only known large super power in the world. But one country thinks not. The Soviet Union! Later years will be terrifying! This time is known as the Cold War!]]> 2017-02-26 16:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/156254253 picture #6 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157865862 a fighter plane during world war 2]]> 2017-03-05 18:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157865862 picture #8 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157866567 35 percent of Americas total investment in equipment and munitions in war]]> 2017-03-05 18:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157866567 picture #9 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157867022 recognition to the USAAF.]]> 2017-03-05 18:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157867022 picture #10 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157868393 The Mighty Eight]]> 2017-03-05 19:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/157868393 J jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/158065677 2017-03-06 15:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/158065677 News article #2 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/158684459 http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/magazine/article/117767758
This is an article from 75 years ago. A diary from one of the pilots. It shows the conversation of the men at the meeting. They are talking about pearl harbor. Plublished By Clarence E. Dickinson, USN, with Boyden Sparkes Originally published October 10,1942.

]]> 2017-03-08 15:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/158684459 News Article #1 jwilliams8092 https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/159171638 The war has ended. Japan has surrendered! Nip Sub Sinks Cruiser carrying atom bomb lead 883 people were killed.]]> 2017-03-10 02:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jwilliams8092/wjabeqo9nuxs/wish/159171638