Best of WWII Public Programs: The Road to Victory in Europe
A few of our best past public programs that follow America's path to Victory in Europe.
A few of our best past public programs that follow America's path to Victory in Europe.
The First Washington Conference, code-named ARCADIA, from December 22, 1941 to January 14, 1942, set the strategic direction for the Anglo-American war effort and established the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Nazis created at least 44,000 camps, including ghettos and other sites of incarceration, between 1933 and 1945. The camps served various functions, from imprisoning "enemies of the state" to serving as way stations in larger deportation schemes to murdering people in gas chambers.
Beauford Anderson fought 75 enemies on Okinawa alone, heroics for which he received the Medal of Honor.
Arriving in London in January 1944, Eisenhower assembles the strategic and tactical staff that will execute Operation Overlord.