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A Japanese balloon bomb drifted 6,000 miles to deliver a deadly blow to a party of Sunday school picnickers in Bly, Oregon. In 1945, In Bly,…
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On This Day In History – April 7, 1945
April 7, 1945 – The Japanese battleship Yamato, the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, is sunk on her way to Okinawa Yamato was…
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French female collaborator punished by having her head shaved to publicly mark her, 1944 Throughout France, from 1943 to the beginning of 1946, about 20,000 women…
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"Let’s finish the Fascist invaders in their lair!" – Viktor Ivanov, 1945
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Why Did Japan Think It Was Worthwhile To Attack The US at Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese leadership had come to the conclusion that they needed national self-sufficiency for their growing military aspirations. They didn’t have the oil and other natural…
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Edward Shames, Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, the last surviving Band of Brothers officer, dies at 99 In September 1942, Shames joined the Army, Volunteering for…
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Flag Raising On Iwo Jima, 1945 It is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’…
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What Was The Most Formidable Military The U.S. Has Ever Faced?
There are a couple of ways to answer this. I’d argue that, in order of formidability, the most determined enemies the United States has faced in…
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The Thoughts And Feelings Of A Nazi SS Guard As He Is About To Execute 23 People
Felix Landau was a member of the feared German SS. For much of the war he belonged to an Einsatzkommando, a mobile death squad charged with…
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How Would Japan Have Fared In A Fight, Had The US Landed On Mainland Japan And No Nukes Had Been Dropped Or Developed?
Japan would have lost, horribly. And it would have been a blood bath for the invaders. I personally question how much of Japan or Japanese culture…