Battle of Bataan
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they invaded Luzon, Philippines in January 1942. Despite insufficient supplies, American and Filipino troops were able to fight for three months. Eventually, they surrendered to Japanese troops and were forced into the Bataan Death March—where some of the most horrific war crimes were committed by the Japanese.
Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II
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“From St. Paul to the Sons of Satan – Captain Richard Fleming’s Medal of Honor”
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Captain Robert H. Dunlap's Medal of Honor
In the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, 27 Marines and sailors were awarded the Medal of Honor for action on Iwo Jima. No other campaign surpassed that number.
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Corporal Charles J. Berry's Medal of Honor
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Private First Class William R. Caddy's Medal of Honor
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Colonel Justice M. Chambers Medal of Honor
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Sergeant Darrell S. Cole's Medal of Honor
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Sergeant Ross F. Gray's Medal of Honor
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PFC Willy F. James, Jr's Medal of Honor
Willy F. James, Jr. was one of seven African Americans to receive the Medal of Honor for service in World War II, an award delayed decades by bias and discrimination.
The Hesse Heist
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The Family von Hessen
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The Fate of the Family von Hessen
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The Jewels Are Stolen
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The Accused Are Tried
European Theater of Operations
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The Last Days of the Dachau Concentration Camp
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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.
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Dachau, the “Model” Concentration Camp, 1933-39
In June 2004, while spending a weekend in Munich away from dissertation research at the Austrian National Library, I boarded a train in the city’s Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) for a short trip.
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Preserving the “Flame of French Resistance”: Charles de Gaulle’s June 1940 Addresses
Charles de Gaulle’s June 1940 addresses called on the French nation to continue the fight against Nazi Germany.
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The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-45: A Timeline, Part Three
Contrary to Winston Churchill's belief that Italy was the "soft underbelly" of Axis-dominated Europe, the Allied campaign in Italy was a long and bloody undertaking.
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The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-45: A Timeline, Part Two
Contrary to Winston Churchill's belief that Italy was the "soft underbelly" of Axis-dominated Europe, the Allied campaign in Italy was a long and bloody undertaking.
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The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943-45: A Timeline, Part One
Contrary to Winston Churchill's belief that Italy was the "soft underbelly" of Axis-dominated Europe, the Allied campaign in Italy was a long and bloody undertaking.
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Seeing in The Dark, Through Clouds, with Mosquitos Making Microwaves
If you are like most Americans, you have in your home the key technology that helped the Allies win WWII. Of course, it serves a very different function in your home than it did back then.
Pacific Theater of Operations
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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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Call for Action and Liberation in the Philippines
As General Douglas MacArthur’s campaign on Luzon was underway, news of the Palawan massacre produced a call to action to save thousands of Allied POWs and civilian internees from a similar fate. With the extraordinary assistance of Filipino guerrillas, four daring raids were launched behind Japanese lines to liberate those camps.
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Survival, Resistance, and Escape on Palawan
Incredibly, a handful of American POWs managed to survive the Palawan massacre and with the aid of Filipino guerrillas reached safety.
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‘Dispose of the Them’: Massacre of American POWs in the Philippines
As the Allied liberation of the Philippines was underway, Japanese commanders acted on orders to annihilate American POWs rather than allow them to assist enemy efforts, and in December 1944 cruelly executed 139 American POWs on Palawan.
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Okinawa: The Costs of Victory in the Last Battle
Victory in the largest battle of the Pacific War came 82 days after it began, and the costs were high.
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Carlson's Raiders
On August 28, 1942, the Detroit Times announced that the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion would receive its own official battle song. Newspapers across the country celebrated the battalion, informally called Carlson’s Raiders after the commander Lt. Colonel Evans Fordyce Carlson, for its successful assault against the Japanese on Makin Island in the Pacific.
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The Wartime Internment of Native Alaskans
At the outset of the Aleutian Islands campaign, 800 native Unangan were removed and interned in squalid camps from 1942 through 1945.
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“From St. Paul to the Sons of Satan – Captain Richard Fleming’s Medal of Honor”
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Home Front
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The Wartime Internment of Native Alaskans
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Making Public What Was Once Secret: Los Alamos and The Manhattan Project
Los Alamos and other Manhattan Project Sites developed across the US in 1942 and 1943.
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The War Refugee Board
When President Franklin Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board in January 1944, he tasked this new government agency with rescuing and providing relief for Jews and other groups facing Nazi persecution and murder in Europe. By that time, more than five million European Jews had already been murdered. The War Refugee Board staff used creativity and the near-certainty of Allied victory to aid hundreds of thousands of people in the final seventeen months of World War II.
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First Fruits of Exile: European Art at Pierre Matisse 1942
In March 1942, a special exhibit opened in New York City of 14 pieces of art each contributed by 14 artists who had escaped Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The Buffalo: 92nd Infantry Division’s Weekly Newspaper during World War II
The 92nd Infantry Division’s unit newspaper earned a place as one of the premier combat division publications in the Armed Forces during World War II.
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Love—Guess Who! Valentine’s Letters from World War II
Forced apart by war, newlyweds and expectant parents Richard and Jean Porritt celebrated Valentine’s Day the only way they could: through greeting cards and love letters.
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First Washington Conference: ARCADIA
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.
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Salvage For Victory: World War II & Now
On January 10, 1942, the United States launched one of its most important and also most memorable domestic initiatives of the entire war: the “Salvage For Victory” campaign.