for whom WWII is something from a long bygone era. Boys and girls are supposed to be watching a documentary about WWII so the memory stays alive; instead they are playing with cellphones and videogames, or are simply looking bored. Until one of the bored boys reaches for a war helmet di...
But at Manzanar and the other camps, these barracks were used as long-term housing for men, women, and children -- who stayed in them for up to three and a half years. In many ways, Questions and answers for Evacuees glossed over, in soothing bureaucratic language, the ramifications of...
The move from hand power to the steam engine changed urban areas to a filthy environment with a stench. Individuals worked long shifts doing repetitive tasks, in unhealthy conditions. Although their life expectancy nearly doubled and material produced in the factories was abundant, people were not ...
the U.S.beachheads(Utah BeachandOmaha Beach) and establishment of a continuous defensive line against expected German counterattacks. The defending German force attempted to hold the city long enough to allow reinforcements on route from the south to arrive, prevent or delay the merging of the ...
For the Motherland! Beat them hard, my son! Our cause is just, victory will be ours! For defense of the Motherland Join people's home guard! Young people, fight for the Motherland! Stalin, Lenin, Party, Komsomol A commissar is a father and soul of his unit. ...
Weeks before the order, the Navy removed citizens of Japanese descent from Terminal Island near the Port of Los Angeles. On December 7, 1941, just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, theFBIrounded-up 1,291 Japanese American community and religious leaders, arresting them without evidence ...
Thus, paid content in the shape of paid-for card-packs is shoved down your throat at every bump in the road. And boy, are there many such bumps, and many micro-transactions to be hawked. You can buy card additional card packs, with the undisclosed probability of obtaining that common/...
fellow pilot Melvin McMullen, and Jeffrey Greene, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, received a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping, who recalled the epic of the Flying Tigers and prized their enduring bond with China, a nation they regarded as their second home. ...
the hardship of missing a girl back home, the risks of mingling with women on the front, the necessity of facing death (often with gallows humor), and of course, the terrible food. Men with jobs far from the action, as well as those in the field who don’t contribute to theesprit ...
Mistakes made as long ago as Vietnam evacuating locals who worked with us were clear, yet Biden did not kick start processing SIV visas for translators and others until literally the last flights were scheduled out. The entire evacuation appeared as an unplanned free fall, just “land some ...