This shrine is a memorial to the many Japanese that were cremated and buried nearby, before and during the war. This place is known by the Japanese word "Hakaba (墓場)," which means graveyard, and it is also where
Battleship Row vessels were tied off to huge black-and-white masonry mooring quays, many of which still stand today. Mooring quays F6, F7, and F8 are part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The USSUtahMemorial ...
A tank and crew from the 761st Tank Battalion in front of the Prince Albert Memorial in Coburg, Germany, 1945. The National Archives World War II exposed a glaring paradox within the United States Armed Forces. Although more than 1 million African Americans served in the war to defeat Nazism...
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根据第一段中的“By spring 1944, the Second World War had been raging across the globe for about five years.(到1944年春天,第二次世界大战已经在全球肆虐了大约五年。)”以及“After waiting for the perfect combination of weather, moon and tides, the date for the start of Operation Overlord was...
Originally destined for the Pacific War, by the time her post-shakedown repairs were completed, the war was over. After a brief service, she was decommissioned on the west coast of the United States in Oct 1946. In Mar 1960, she was towed to Brooklyn, New York, United States where she...
interleaving, among other things, were quite susceptible to jamming from mud and ice - and there was a lot of both of those in Russia. The design eventually reverted to just overlapping wheels, as off-road performance became less important as the war rolled west into more urban built-up ...
Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) * (cultural) The Maison Carrée of Nîmes (cultural) Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique (natural) Te Henua Enata – The Marquesas Islands (mixed) The famous rocky islet of Mont Saint-...
At a meeting of the Central Committee War Section in Moscow, Russia, the intelligence reports, provided by Communist sympathisers in Germany, that an attack on the Soviet Union was imminent was greeted with much apprehension. Stalin however still refused to accept the intelligence, believing that ...
Whether destroyed during war, evacuated for ammunition practice or left after nearby precious metals and minerals turned out to be in short supply, these are the world’s most fascinating abandoned towns and cities.