Military forces and sectors

Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is today mainly remembered for its starring role in the Hollywood film The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).

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In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook a daring behind the lines reconnaissance of the Japanese-held Green Islands of Papua New Guinea.

Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colonial rulers, facing unknown enemies in unknown lands.

In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.

Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of Europe.

More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

Though few realize it, the Netherlands East Indies were the object of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th "e;Third Iowa"e; Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force's 42nd "e;Rainbow"e; Division during World War I.

On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria.

The 92nd Infantry ("e;Buffalo"e;) Division was the last segregated (all-black) U.

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges.

One of NASCAR's pioneers, Bud Moore won countless races in the sport's early rough and tumble days.

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914.

The story of Hitler's Wehrmachtsgefolge (armed forces auxiliaries) is less well known than that of Germany's other armed forces in World War II, such as the panzer divisions, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films.

World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day.

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche.

On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game.

The life and achievements of General Omar Nelson Bradley are legendary.

In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson's request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, "e;The world must be made safe for democracy.

"e;Now that the United States has declared war upon the German Empire, and that men will more than likely be conscripted into the service, I shall feel embarrassed should I fail to be among the first to go to the training camp,"e; wrote Dae Hinson of Leesville, Louisiana, in April 1917.

North Carolina did more than its part during World War II.

During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces.

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The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds of liberated Parisians.

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For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded.

During World War I, the American Expeditionary Force Second Division saw more action and captured more ground and enemy combatants than any other, including the vaunted First Division.

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf.

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities.

As a combat medical aidman of Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, First Infantry Division, Allen N.

This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role that the mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews as well as other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in Southeastern Europe played in transforming economic life and social relations.

The book chronicles the extensive training and heroic service of the New York National Guard's 104th Field Artillery Regiment from the period of 1916 to 1919.

Belgium in the First World War--the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten.

America's first West Coast armored and infantry training installation was built in California in 1941 and named Camp Cooke.

Most histories of World War I revolve around gruesome battles, ribboned generals and feats of military heroism.

In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB.

The battle for Saipan is remembered as one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Pacific during World War II, and was a turning point on the road to the defeat of Japan.

The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in northwest England.

This volume examines how people in Poland learn about Jewish life, culture and history, including the Holocaust.

This is an overview of America's first effort in military aid to a foreign sovereign nation at a time when Europe was engaged in open warfare, Asia was facing a series of military confrontations, and most of the world thought global conflagration was inevitable.

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski's student life, and propelled him into an activist role in the Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa.

World War II found Albania fighting a war within a war.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

Eight World War II battles are examined here from the perspective of the U.

During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities.

This detailed chronological analysis of British World War II movies from 1939 until the present explores how films projected recognizable stereotypes of British national character and how the times in which a film was made shaped its perspectives.

At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany.

This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.