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Lt. Aubrey Rion, 501st Parachute Infantry
Lt. Aubrey Rion was one of 19,000 Americans killed during the Battle of the Bulge.
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The People’s War: Women, Children, and Civilians in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
Polish civilians played a critical role in the two-month long conflict in Warsaw.
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Proclamation 2527 and the Internment of Italian Americans
The surveillance and detention of Italian Americans after Pearl Harbor is a little-known piece of WWII history.
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A Shared Enmity: Germany, Japan, and the Creation of the Tripartite Pact
Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
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Recovered and Identified on the USS Oklahoma
AMM2c Durell Wade made the ultimate sacrifice manning his battlestation on USS Oklahoma during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The USS Arizona’s Last Salvo
In a strange case of life after death, the resurrected guns of the USS Arizona fired at the end of the war.
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Review of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970
Yoshikuni Igarashi examines the impact of World War II and Japan’s defeat on postwar Japanese memory.
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Lieutenant Commander Samuel G. Fuqua's Medal of Honor
As USS Arizona burned on December 7, 1941, Lt. Commander Fuqua displayed true courage under fire.
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Kaho’olawe: The Pacific’s Battered Bullseye
Once a bombing range, one Hawaiian island is on the long road back.
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Mary Golda Ross and the Skunk Works
How did Mary Golda Ross, who taught high school in her native Cherokee schools, end up as a space-travel engineer?
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Remembering to Forget: A Japanese Pilot’s Memory of World War II
Takeshi Maeda, a Japanese Imperial Naval pilot, guided his bomber to Pearl Harbor and released a torpedo that helped sink the USS West Virginia. Years later, he became a leading figure in reconciliation efforts between Japan and the United States.
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Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and the Anti-Comintern Pact
The signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan in 1936 was one of the truly momentous and horrifying conjunctures of the twentieth century.