During World War II, the American flag was the 48-star flag used from 1912 (incorporation of New Mexico and Arizona) to 1959 (incorporation of Alaska). The rows and columns of stars were arranged in a regular pattern, unlike the offset rows of the modern American flag. On 1stDibs, you...
(CBS) –More than 70 years after the end of World War II, federal representatives awarded the Bronze Star and other medals to an Army veteran who fought in the infamous Battle of the Bulge. Irv Abramson was part of the American force that beat back the Nazis in Germany's late offensive...
World War II Veteran, Wife Remembered by Family, FriendsThe American flag sat at half-staff at the Knoxville NationalCemetery for the memorial service...Brake, Jennifer
The Army was separated by two oceans before and during World War II, after thePearl Harbor Attackand after the Declaration of War on Dec. 08, 1941, but in the Pacific the US Army Far East Forces based in the Philippines was also attacked alone with other American Bases. This Army in th...
Figure 2. The Cold War Era is represented here with President John F. Kennedy in front of American flag and Premiere Nikita Khrushchev in front of Soviet flag. As the first image to the left implies, World War II was largely fought by soldiers on the ground and sea, facing off in large...
American Mobilization After Pearl Harbor, the army swelled with volunteers, the Women's Army Corps was organized, and the isolationist/interventionist debate was over, as the U.S. was mobilizing to intervene--to go to war. War Production Board This was created in January, 1942. Retool industri...
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Konrad Adenauer, the future post war Chancellor of West Germany, was removed by the Nazi Party from his post as Mayor of Köln (Cologne), Germany. Penniless, he sought sanctuary in the Benedictine monastery at the Maria Laach Abbey near Andernach, Germany. [Köln, Köln-Aachen | AC]5...
The Bataan death march in the Philippines is notorious. Here, some American and Filipino prisoners of war try to survive the brutality. If you fell behind during the march or collapsed in exhaustion, the guards indifferently finished you off. ...
a group of primarily African-American pilots and airmen who fought in the war -also known as the "Tuskegee Airmen" 442nd Regimental Combat Team Japanese American combat team that became the most decorated military unit in American history