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Dogfight Over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last Four Men to Die in World War II
Join us for a conversation with Pacific War historian and best selling author John Wukovits, who will be interviewed about his latest book: Dogfight Over Tokyo.
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Atomic Veterans: Regular Men, Nuclear Fallout
Join Historian Hannah Dailey as she presents on what it means to be an Atomic Veteran.
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FALLOUT: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World with Author Lesley Blume
This presentation of FALLOUT, which premiered on the Museum’s Facebook page, recounts how John Hersey got the story that no other journalist could—and how he subsequently played a role in ensuring that no nuclear attack has happened since, possibly saving millions of lives.
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Hiroshima: History and Legacy
Join us as we reflect on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 75 years later. The Museum’s Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian, Dr. Rob Citino, will host a discussion on the history, artifacts, and Museum’s educational initiatives about the atomic bomb and Hiroshima.
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"Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World"
Fox News Anchor and author Chris Wallace discusses his latest book, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World.
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Survival and Witnessing: A Conversation with Emma Kuby, PhD, About French Concentration Camp Survivors as Activists
This conversation with Emma Kuby, PhD, considers how these survivors became key witnesses after 1945, how they organized, and how they defined survival and witnessing.
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Operation Olympic: The Climactic Invasion of Southern Japan...That Never Happened
Curator Larry Decuers will take a look at the proposed plan to invade Kyushu, code-named Olympic, that was slated to take place on November 1, 1945, and what the Japanese response may have looked like.
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
Join best-selling authors Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic who tell the story of the USS Indianapolis, her crew, and their illustrious battle history.
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Historian Seth Paridon Says Goodbye to The National WWII Museum
After 15 years as a historian at The National WWII Museum, Seth Paridon has accepted a position as Deputy Director of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby.
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Museum Remembers Charles Evers, WWII Veteran and Civil Rights Movement Icon (1922-2020)
Charles Evers, who fought the "Double V for Victory" campaign during and after World War II, passed away this week at the age of 87. Watch his appearance at the April 2016 symposium.
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The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl
Alexander Watson, author of The Fortress, tells the story of World War I's epic battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary for the eastern European fortress of Przemysl.
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Fighting for Equality: African American Men in Combat in the World Wars
Scholars of African American military history and war and society, John Morrow, PhD; Robert Jefferson, PhD; and Jeffrey Sammons, PhD, will offer their insights about these important topics.
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