BRANDON



Brandon Nickerson WWII 10/28/09  After only a short but bloody month fighting in France, Germany forced France to surrender in the summer of 1940. Even though the French army had been defeated the civilians France and other countries stood strong a defended their country. Nearly all countries that where occupied by Germans during the second worlds war had civilians or other forces setting up resistances inside the country. Some forms of resistance that were seen are sabotage, anti Nazi propaganda, espionage, helping POWs, helping hide wanted men, forging papers, and most importantly depleting Nazi moral by attacking German forces directly. The French resistance was not only one group of centralize resistance it was many groups that collectively fought the Germans. The resistance did not only fight the invading Nazis, they also fought the Vichy France in southern France. Vichy France collaborated with the Germans and therefore were enemies to the rest of the country. The resistance was made up of anyone who wanted to support the cause which included men women and children. All of these people were of different ages, social classes, occupations all united by one combined cause. In rural areas the resistance was referred to as the maquis. The resistance also united all religions of France including conservative Roman Catholics, Jews, to liberals, anarchists and communists. A main organizer for the resistance was the French general Charles de Gaulle, who greatly supported the Gaullism doctrine. The Gaullism doctrine patriotic movement of resistance against the German invasion, it gathered around General Charles de Gaulle and his men were called the Gaullist after the Gaullism doctrine. De Gaulle asked all every patriot who could reach the British territories to join the Free French Army to fight with the Allies. First and most importantly the French and other resistance forces stood up against the mighty German forces and hit them head on and fought fire with fire. It is amazing that such an untrained force consisting of mainly American and British supported civilians could the formidable German military machine head on in battle. Unlike the Dutch and Belgian resistances that were mainly made up of old soldiers that escaped German imprisonment. They were able to hide their weapons from the war u like the French civilians that were very ill-equipped fighting force and needed weapons. Some did have some form of weapons but many didn’t so the only option was to steal them from the Germans or to get them from secret British and American agents deployed in occupied areas. A produced pistol that the Americans gave to the French and other resistances was the FP-45also known as the Liberator. The FP-45 was a crude, single-shot pistol designed to be cheaply and quickly mass produced. It was very under matched compared to the highly engineered firearms made by skilled gun smiths available to the Germans The Liberator had just 23 largely stamped and turned steel parts that were cheap and easy to manufacture. It fired a .45 caliber pistol cartridge from an unrifled barrel. Because of the unrifled barrel, maximum effective range was only about 25 feet The Liberator was shipped in a cardboard box with 10 rounds of .45 ACP ammunition, a wooden dowel to remove the empty shell casing, and an instruction sheet in comic strip form showing how to load and fire the weapon. Extra rounds of ammunition could be stored in the grip. The French also used anti Nazi propaganda to help the cause and gain more support to defeat the evil Nazis. The French had many illegal underground newspapers that depicted true and untrue propaganda stories After the landings by the Americans, British, Canadian, and other forces on the beaches of Normandy the French resistance fighters still had a purpose after their fighting was over.

3/13/09 our goal was to finally srew the stearing to the craft we spit the base board on the first try but the we finnally had it on and all we need to do is find a good way tho put on the elbows maybe by glue or by drilling it out and the srewing nailing them down.

3/11/09 our goal today was to posintion the seat so we could mount the stearing,but the seat was never mounted so we made it so the fan would not rotate by putting a block in front of the fan and by tight ening the bolts holding fan togather.

3/10/09 our goal today was to mount the stearing. we were not able to mount the stearing because of the seat not being mounted, but the searing is togather and found that using the smaller angle elbows will work the best with two on ach side of the craft.

3/6/09 our goal to day was to finish the cam and mount the stearing. we did finish the cam but the stearing is yet to be muonted.

3/3/09 our goal today was to finish the cam and the pin stearing system. James and i did not have the rowter bit so we could not finish the cam, but the stearing is finished.

3/2/09 our goal today was to finish the cam and find a way to put the stearing on the hovercraft. we did not finish the cam because we did not have the rowter but we did find ways of connecting the stearing.

2/26/09 our goal today was to build the cam.. we did not finish but it is cut and the stearing hole is cut all we need is to rouder the groove.

2-25/09 our goal today was to start the stearing wheel in the shop but we were not able to so we finished the design of the cam.

2/23/09 our goal today was to wait for our chance to work on the stearing, in this time i worked on finishing homework and a chemistry lab.

2/13/09 Our goal today was to draw our cam for our stearing. after many questions and confusion we finally had a drawing that represents a good am for the craft's stearing.

2/6/09: today we made a decission on were and how the sterring will sit on the base of the hovercraft.

2/5/2009: Today james and me discussing stearing designes and had the plywood design of the hovercraft put under my name.

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