D-DAY HOW TECHNOLOGY HELPED WIN THE NORMANDY INVASION AND WORLD WAR 2

D-DAY HOW TECHNOLOGY HELPED WIN THE NORMANDY INVASION AND WORLD WAR 2                       

 World war 2 was  won not just with courage, devotion and duty, but with American and british technological advanced that gave allied troops the upper hand in many facets of battle. The most famous and fearsome: the manhattan project atomic bombs that led to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. But there were many others.                                  

Bombsights employing complicated gyroscope technology allowed planes to pinpoint bomb attacks. Before world war 2, pilots simply dropped bombs by hand hoped for the best. Nylon, the synthesic material invented by dupont for women’s stocking was used to make parachutes, glinder tow ropes, aircraft fuel tanks and flak jackets, according to Smithsonian magazine. Some people dubbed it the fiber that won the war.

According to the u.s department of veterans affairs, memorial day is celebrated in late may because that’s when flowers likely to be blooming across the country. It was union general john a.logan who-after serving in the Mexican-american war and civil war-proposed that congress institute may 30th as decoration day tp allowed citizen to decorate the graves of deceased veterans with fresh flowers. It is Higgins himself who takes your breath away Raymond moley a former fdr advicer wrote in newsweek in 1943. Higgins is an authentic master builder, with the kind of will power brains drive and darling that characterized the American empire builders of an earlier generation.

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