TAG: WWII Archaeology

  • December 7, 1941 January/February 2017

    A Timeline of the Attack

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    (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)
  • Letter From the Marshall Islands March/April 2015

    Defuzing the Past

    Unexploded ordnance from WWII is a risk for the people of the Marshall Islands—and a challenge for archaeologists

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    Archaeology of World War II

    Years after the end of the world's greatest conflict, new research reveals the true nature and extent of its impact

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    The Story of YP-389

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    Slideshow: The Wreck of the HMAS Sydney

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  • Features May 1, 2011

    The Sinking of the HMAS Sydney

    The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the Mediterranean, the Sydney encountered a ship claiming to be a Dutch freighter—actually the HSK Kormoran, a German raider that had menaced merchant ships for months.

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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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    (Courtesy Gabriel Moshenska)
  • 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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