Jason Dawsey, PhD, is a Research Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, where he researches the service records of WWII veterans and writes their biographies for family members.
Jason Dawsey, PhD
Research Historian

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African American Women's Service and Experience
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Recognition after a Long Wait: Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers’ Medal of Honor
Heroism on the battlefield often goes unrecognized for generations, as it did for Staff Sergeant Ruben Rivers.
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Stalingrad and the Growth of the Anti-Nazi Resistance
News of the crushing Soviet victory at Stalingrad in February 1943 over the Third Reich and its satellite states struck the rest of Europe, indeed the globe, like a thunderbolt.
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From Oahu to Guadalcanal: Major Charles Willis Davis’s Medal of Honor
World War II ripped millions of men and women from their homes and hurled them around the globe. Americans like Charles Willis Davis discovered, though, under the most extreme circumstances, that they possessed incredible courage and ability.
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Valor at Pearl Harbor: Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd’s Medal of Honor
Bravery—even unto death—was evident everywhere as Imperial Japan’s air and sea forces struck the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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An Exercise in Depravity: The Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto
The largest of the ghettos where Eastern European Jews were first confined and, later, deported to extermination camps by the Nazis was set up in Warsaw, Poland.
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Alexander A. Vandegrift Before Guadalcanal
Alexander A. Vandegrift’s accomplishments during World War II came near the end of almost four decades of service in the United States Marine Corps.
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The Last Days of the Dachau Concentration Camp
For the last several days of its existence, before soldiers of the United States Seventh Army arrived, Dachau was a small, self-enclosed universe of decay and death.
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A Shocking Level of Brutality and Degradation: Dachau in Wartime
Wartime reshaped life and death in the Dachau concentration camp in fundamental ways.