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WWII
This is a series of articles, discoveries, strategies, tactics, weapons, policies, personalities, formations and battles of the Second World War.
Pee Wee Herman’s Father Founded the Israeli Air Force.
Pilot Paul Rubenfeld. It’s 1939. Germany and Britain are about to become combatants in the new age of modern weaponry. In the states, in …
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Dave Brubeck, US Army.
Jazz aficionados instantly recognize Dave Brubeck pretty much as God. Along with the Miles Davis Quintet’s “So What,” the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Take Five” is …
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The Fallen, 9000 Impressions Artists Scraped Onto Normandy Beach
This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied and hundreds of volunteers, took rakes and stencils in hand to the …
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D Day 1944
Not sure what Hitler was thinking that morning. But that evening he must have been shitting. 156,113 men kicked the door to the 3rd Reich …
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett served. Demoted by a white racist officer because he had the audacity to invite a black soldier to dine with him. This was …
Rome Falls Again
On the day Rome fell, 8 million GIs were in uniform, and this was a fivefold increase since Pearl Harbor. It included twelve hundred generals …
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Super Carrier, the Shinano, was sunk in 1944 by a Torpedo
Shinano (信濃) was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time. …
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The Fairburn-Sykes Fighting System.
The Fairburn- Sykes Fighting Knife is pointed dagger also called a poignard, and it has a Fencing foil grip developed by Bill Fairburn and …
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More World War II Numbers
World War II ended with the Japanese surrender on September 2nd, 1945. That made it six years and a day long. It involved sixty nations …
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Yalta
The conference at Yalta was a chance for the inheritors of power after World War II to decide how to govern. It was obviously one …
After World War II, Germany Was Ravaged.
Germans could see the writing on the wall. They had least holdings and alliances in Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and half of …
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Paris, After The Liberation.
When Paris was liberated it was a broken city. No gas, no power, no light, streets filled with thieves. There was a soap and …
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Odd World War II Facts.
More than 1000 V-1 and V-2 Rockets would landed on British soil. The V-2 almost exclusively impacted in London and on the Belgian capitol. …
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Incendiary Behavior
T 1 Monroe Leaflet Bomb British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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Incendiary Behavior
RAF Pummels Essen With Incendiaries British Air Minister Arthur Harris watched London burn for the roof of his offices on King Charles Street. He …
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The Run-Up to the Capture of Strasbourg.
Jean De Lattre De Tasingny, French General of the 1st Army 82nd Airborne Division and French Resistance Fighters in France in 1944 The …
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