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Mail Call: Bo Perabo and Liberation in the Pacific
In a first letter home after his release from a Japanese POW camp, a fighter pilot thanks his family for their prayers.
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Dunkirk
Senior Historian Robert M. Citino, PhD, on Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic: “Nolan is particularly good at weaving together war’s three domains: on land, at sea, and in the air. The air battles, often a weak and confusing bore in war films, are as well-presented as any I’ve ever seen, and the German Stuka attacks, especially, are terrifying. No war film is truly realistic, but Dunkirk is as good as it gets.”
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D-Day behind Barbed Wire: Hope for POWs
On June 6, 1944, news of the Normandy invasion spread through German prisoner-of-war camps like wildfire, igniting hope in Allied POWs.
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Justice After the 1944 Malmedy Massacre
On July 16, 1946, a US Army tribunal at Dachau sentenced 46 members of the Waffen SS to death for crimes committed against Allied POWs and civilians.
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Forgotten Fights: Operation Dragoon and the Decline of the Anglo-American Alliance
Operation Dragoon was the successful Allied invasion of southern France that also highlighted the intense Allied disagreements over strategy.
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Okinawa: The Battle and Bomb
05/20/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMJust over 75 years ago—on April 1, 1945—American troops invaded the 70-mile long island of Okinawa in the largest amphibious operation of the Pacific War.
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Ask a Curator: Black May 1943
05/19/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMAs late as March 1943, the Allies were in danger of losing the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats were sinking Allied shipping at an alarming rate.
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An Interview with Medal of Honor Recipient Woody Williams
04/13/2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMJoin us for a very special interview with Woody Williams, the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient to have fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
