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Ari Phoutrides, USS Laffey (DD-724)
Ari Phoutrides talks about experiencing a massive kamikaze attack one day while posted to Radar Picket Station #1 off the coast of Okinawa during which his ship was hit by four bombs and six kamikazes.
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Reflections on Community Engagement: The Family Block Party
The Family Block Party is an event where our local audience can come together to celebrate many of New Orleans’s best community organizations.
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A Secret History Behind a Bat Boy’s Photograph with Ted Williams by Anne R. Keene
Baseball boosted American morale during World War II and whipped soldiers, sailors, and pilots into fighting shape.
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Hans Courant, Los Alamos
Hans Courant talks about his time at Los Alamos, building components for the atomic bomb, and coming to the realization that the bomb would be used on human beings.
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Louisiana Spotlight: Corporal Albert Porche, 99th Fighter Squadron
More than 14,000 African American men served in the US Army Air Forces in segregated units during World War II. Only about 1,000 of them were pilots. Many others, like Louisiana native Albert Porche, filled vital support roles which kept the famed Red Tails flying in Italy.
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Raymond Mason, 4th Armored Division
Raymond Mason describes the 4th Armored Division’s assault toward the town of Bastogne where they were heading to relieve the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Forgotten Fights: Tank Attack at Arras, May 1940
Born of desperation, the British tank attack at Arras on May 21, 1940 was a tactical failure with major strategic implications—and it may have helped to save the British army.
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SHOP TALK: Three Jeeps
When restoring a vehicle, paint is one of the most important aspects.
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Richard Greer, 1st Marine Division
Richard Greer recalls the defense of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, against the brutal Japanese banzai attack during the night of October 24-25, 1942.
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Anti-Soviet Partisans in Eastern Europe
Even as World War II in Europe officially ended in May 1945, bitter fighting erupted across Eastern Europe as local partisans fought the Soviet occupation.
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Charles Radford, 34th Infantry Division
Charles Radford describes defending against a German tank attack during combat operations in North Africa.
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Nazi Germany's Last Leader: Admiral Karl Dönitz
Hitler was the first dictator of Germany but he was not the last. His handpicked successor was a little known career naval officer named Karl Dönitz.