World War 2

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• 7/21/19
  

  "If ever I felt that I ought to be five priests it was that week:" Chaplains in World War 2

  by John Wukovits

  Though they conducted many rigorous tasks, the chaplains cherished the knowledge that they had comforted dying young men, and subsequently their families, in their final moments.

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• 7/16/19
  

  Will We all Survive by the Skin of Our Teeth?

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The Skin of Our Teeth is a colossal success, a perceptive look back to the past and to the future and from post-World War II life to the present day and to our future, too. 

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• 7/7/19
  

  Flight Girls: Remembering World War 2's Women Airforce Service Pilots

  by Noelle Salazar 

  "I was stunned by anecdotes of bravery, death and outright misogyny. And I was baffled the subjects of these stories had tried to be heard, but still, seventy-seven years later, for the most part were unknown to the greater public."

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• 6/30/19
  

  The Declassified History of Hitler's British Traitors

  by Tim Tate

  For all the genuine unity and determination of the vast majority of the British population to defeat Hitler, there was also a small – but dangerous – sub-stratum which yearned for the day when his troops could goose-step down Whitehall amid an orgy of swastika flags.

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• 6/23/19
  

  On the 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles, It's Time to Reexamine Its Legacy.

  by David Carlin

  Versailles did not destroy the German economy, make Germany into a permanent pariah, or inspire the German lust for revenge. Instead, the Nazis capitalized on a unique economic calamity (the Great Depression), German political instability, and deep seated radical nationalist currents.

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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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• 6/9/19
  

  What We Can't Forget As We Remember Anne Frank

  by Rafael Medoff

  Today would have been her 90th Birthday. Here's how FDR could have done more to save Holocaust victims like her. 

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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: 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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• 6/2/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Mark Weisenmiller

  by Erik Moshe

  "Historians should have perseverance, a strong set of eyes, and an unimaginably long reading list."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/30/19
  

  ‘I’ll keep fighting’: Philippine women keep alive memory of sex slave horrors during World War II

  More than seven decades after the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines and raped hundreds of girls, the survivors still want to be heard. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/25/19
  

  Unseen Anne Frank letters illuminate life before confinement

  Translated into English for the first time, letters to grandmother and others reveal context of birthdays, boys and braces as well as the rising Nazi menace.

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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.