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Let the Games Begin
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Features May 1, 2011
The Pacific Theater
On June 15, 1944, a massive U.S. invasion fleet stormed the beaches of Saipan, the largest of the Mariana Islands.
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Features May 1, 2011
London's Air-Raid Shelters and Lost Homes
During the Spanish Civil War, German and Italian forces had used aerial bombing raids to aid Francisco Franco's Nationalist side. In the run-up to WWII, British officials were frightened by the prospect of those very same tactics, so the U.K. passed legislation to begin digging air-raid shelters.
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Features May 1, 2011
The Archaeology of Internment
Archaeology, with its unique ability to discover details of daily life often left out of personal journals and official histories, is now being used to document the lives of WWII's interned, among them more than 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese, and millions of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, criminals, homosexuals, and political prisoners.
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Features May 1, 2011
The POW Camp Made Famous by The Great Escape
Designed to contain those who had already fled previous detainment, the German POW camp Stalag Luft III was built in the woods of modern-day Poland as far as possible from non-Axis territory.
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Features May 1, 2011
The Early Days of Nuclear Warfare
One of WWII's most infamous legacies is that it is the only war to have involved nuclear weapons.
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Features May 1, 2011
Gearing Up at the Desert Training Center
he Mojave Desert was once the largest training ground in the history of warfare. In 1942 and 1943, a million soldiers passed through the Desert Training Center (DTC), or California/Arizona Maneuver Area, 28,000 square miles where an inexperienced American military learned to operate in a harsh environment...
