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No Respect: The United Nations in Peace and War
The United Nations was a child of World War II, and another one of FDR's good ideas.
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James Carrington, 4th Marine Regiment
James Carrington discusses his experiences of being hidden by Filipino guerillas after escaping from Bilibid Prison where he had been a POW of the Japanese for two years.
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PH-47: A Cameraman’s Right Hand
Designated the PH-47, better known as the Speed Graphic, this was the standard issue camera to US Army photographers.
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Camp Lucky Strike: RAMP Camp No. 1
The cigarette camp “Camp Lucky Strike” was a bustling tent city of 58,000 impatient American troops awaiting transportation back to the United States after Victory in Europe. Lucky Strike was described as both “seventh heaven” and complete chaos.
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Ben Bederson, The Manhattan Project
Ben Bederson discusses his time at Los Alamos developing components for the plutonium bomb that that was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
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Webinar: “Ghosts of Honolulu” by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr.
05/01/2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AMJoin us for a free webinar on the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence in the leadup to World War II.
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Dinner with a Curator: “‘Long Live the King of Monsters’: Godzilla and World War II”
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Italy: 1944 (April 22-28, 2024)
04/22/2024 - 04/28/2024 | 12:00 AMThe campaigns in Italy from the first landings in September 1943 through May 1945 tested Allied soldiers to the limit.
