military history

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  6/3/19
  

  The Invention That Won World War II

  by David Kindy

  Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults that was vital to victory on D-Day. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/19
  

  What D-Day teaches us about the difficulty — and importance — of resistance

  by Sonia Purnell

  For four years, a few French citizens fought a losing battle. Then they won.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/29/19
  

  The Making of the Military-Intellectual Complex

  by Daniel Bessner

  Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  6/6/19
  

  Of Crimes and Pardons

  by Rebecca Gordon

  The United States was not always so reluctant to put national leaders on trial for their war crimes. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/6/19
  

  Trump and world leaders remember D-Day

  Dozens of American veterans of D-Day were among other veterans and their families on a stage erected within the semicircular stone memorial at the Normandy American Cemetery.

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• SOURCE: Fox
  6/2/19
  

  Video of the Week: Remembering D-Day 75th Anniversary Special

  June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the beginning of the Battle for Normandy.

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• 6/6/19
  

  Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again

  by Kevin Kennedy

  The successful Allied landings in Normandy accelerated Germany’s defeat, but they didn’t bring it about.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  6/3/19
  

  How Many Were Killed on D-Day?

  Days before the invasion, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was told by a top strategist that paratrooper casualties alone could be as high as 75 percent.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/3/19
  

  D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbours

  by Colin Flint

  When Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 – a bold invasion of Nazi-held territory that helped tip the balance of World War II – they were using a remarkable and entirely untested technology: artificial ports.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/2/19
  

  D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever

  International leaders will gather again this week to honor the dwindling number of D-Day veterans.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/4/19
  

  He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

  Waverly Woodson died in 2005 but his widow, Joann Woodson, who turned 90 on May 26, has made it her mission to see that her husband’s heroism is acknowledged.

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• SOURCE: Capital Gazette
  6/2/19
  

  'I'd like to volunteer, sir': 75 years after D-Day, memories live on through oral histories

  Seventy-five years later, the ranks have thinned of those who braved machine gun fire on French beaches that were marked on their maps with American names like Utah and Omaha.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/2/19
  

  One of D-Day’s most famous, heroic assaults may have been unnecessary

  Pointe du Hoc’s importance as a military objective has become the subject of heated debate as the 75th anniversary of the invasion approaches.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/24/19
  

  Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan

  by Thurston Clarke

  Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  5/27/19
  

  The American Revolution’s Starving, Barefoot, Heroic Troops

  Our young nation was very poor, the war was very expensive, and Congress and the states wanted everyone else to pay.

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• 6/2/19
  

  D-Day 75 Years Later and the Quest for Peace

  by William Lambers

  American and allied soldiers lost their lives on D-Day so that others may live free. The best way to honor D-Day veteran’s sacrifice is to work for that elusive, but achievable eternal world peace. 

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• 6/2/19
  

  Remembering Rome's Liberation

  by Gregory Sumner

  Amid the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, it is important to note, too, the anniversary of an event that unfolded just two days earlier: the Allied liberation of Rome. 

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• SOURCE: Gresham College
  5/30/2019
  

  Upcoming Event: The Treaty of Versailles: A Hundred Years Later

  On Tuesday, June 4, Professor Margaret MacMillan will put the treaty in perspective, one hundred years later. 

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• SOURCE: ACME Specialist Whistles
  5/30/2019
  

  The Lost Clickers of D-Day

  Join The Search For The Lost D-Day Landing Clickers

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/25/2019
  

  Civil War Battlefields Lose Ground as Tourist Draws

  As recent events change how visitors see Confederate imagery, sites work to broaden the audience