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The Night of Broken Glass, Never to Be Forgotten
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass was the Nazi dictatorship’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews in November 1938.
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The Fallen Crew of the USS Arizona and Operation 85
A Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency project aims to identify unknown servicemen who perished aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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'Maxwell Opened My Eyes' Rosa Parks: WWII Defense Worker
Before her historic protest in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa Parks was a Home Front worker at Maxwell Airfield.
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Patchwork Plane: Building the P-47 Thunderbolt
Roughly 100 companies, coast to coast, helped Republic Aviation Corporation manufacture each P-47 Thunderbolt.
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The Cairo and Tehran Conferences
In a series of high-stakes strategic conferences in late 1943, the Allies made several key decisions that shaped wartime strategy, while reflecting the changing balance of power between the Allied nations and foreshadowing the postwar emergence of the bipolar world.
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The Sinking of the HMT Rohna
Classified for 50 years, the sinking of the HMT Rohna remains one of the least known—yet most catastrophic—events of World War II.
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The Chopping Block: The Fate of Warplanes after WWII
After the war, hundreds of thousands of US warplanes remained—but the military needed only a fraction of them.
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Operation Clipper: The Fight for Geilenkirchen
Operation Clipper, an offensive to reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in Germany, highlighted the value of specialized tanks in a combined US-British operation.
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The Exterminationist Mindset: Heinrich Himmler’s October 1943 Speeches
In October 1943, SS leader Heinrich Himmler gave two speeches, showing the full depravity of the exterminationist mindset.
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Mustang Pilot: Captain Mark H. Stepelton, US Army Air Forces
Mark Stepelton flew in some of the most dangerous environments of the war by escorting bombing aircraft over occupied Europe and conducting air interdiction missions, striking enemy targets deep behind the lines.
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Nazi Germany and the Establishment of Ghettos
The creation of ghettos during World War II was a key part of Nazi plans to brutally persecute, separate, and eventually liquidate Europe’s Jewish population.
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The Invasion of Poland
From the beginning, this was to be a different kind of war—a war not only of conquest but also of annihilation.