World War 2

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• The Navajo Code Talkers

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 148
  I was reminded today of the story of the Navajo Code Talkers, those 400 or so Navajo Indians who served in the US Marines during World War 2 and by using secret Navajo language-encrypted military terms helped the U.S. prevail at Iwo Jima and in many other Pacific theatre battles. It is accepted that the the code which ...
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• Remembrance Day

  
  Don't trust the Indian Media! — Authority: 116
  On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World war 1, The Great War came to an end. Every year since, most former British and Britain itself colonies which lost their young men on the battlefields of Europe, and subsequently in battlefields across the world in World War 2 have always marked this day ...
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• Remembrance Day

  
  Babasiga — Authority: 123
  from Peceli Remembrance Day, the 11th of 11th month and I remember my older brother Laisenia who died in the Solomon Islands.(reposted from another remembrance occasion) I was thinking of my older brother Laisiasa Masidugu who died in the battlefield in the Solomon in 1944. I only discovered by using the internet that ...
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• Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If Germany Lost War

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  Via The Onion : NEW MUNICH—The new Sci-Fi Channel series Fallen Axis , which eerily depicts a world in which Germany actually lost the Second World War, premiered Tuesday evening to high ratings in an alternate universe to our own. The much-anticipated television event is said to be the most ambitious ever ...
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• National World War II Museum: Bringing The Battle To Life

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 458
  Ringside for a global fight, viewers will gain an up-close perspective in the new Solomon Victory Theater at the World War II museum in New Orleans. (The National World War II Museum) From Christian Science Monitor: The New Orleans National World War II Museum uses immersive tech to boost teaching power – and ...
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• Interesting Facts about The World War 2

  
  Fun Facts — Authority: 440
  It has been a very historical weekend, to commemorate it, here are some facts about the WW2.-From 1939 till the end of the war, the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bomb, mostly in industrial German cities.-For each man killed on battle, four others were wounded.-40,000 men served the U-Boats but 30,000 never ...
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• Extensive Research Lends Realism to Blood Beach

  
  iPhone News at Desinformado.com | The Complete Source for iPhone News — Authority: 144
  Coresoft today announces Blood Beach 1.0, a simulated World War 2 game for iPhone and iPod Touch users. As much research as is humanly possible has gone into giving Blood Beach a true-life feel. Weapon firing, flight attack patterns, audio sounds, enemy behavior, ammunition and weaponry are all based on actual real ...
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• Twenty Years have Passed: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 641
  On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came crashing down. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of that great day – one of the greatest in the history of human freedom. Communism in Germany finally collapsed, setting off a domino effect that would reach Moscow within two years. Families torn apart for nearly three ...
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• Highway K Veterans Stand Up Against Socialism

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 556
  For more than two hours every Saturday afternoon since April, an average of 200 anti-socialism protesters have carried signs and waved at passing motorists at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo. Among them are several veterans who’ve served their country during peacetime and war.  From World War ...
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• Okinawans Step Up U.S. Base Protest

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  With a new populist government in place in Tokyo, the people of Okinawa are stepping up their protest against the relocation of a U.S. Marine Corps air base on the island. They want the base gone altogether. —JCL The BBC: Thousands of people have protested on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa demanding ...
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• Finding the Words

  
  Novel Journey — Authority: 495
  Marcia Laycock is a pastors wife, mother of three daughters and a published author of two devotional books and one novel. This post is written in honour of Arimistice Day, November 11th, (Veterans Day in the U.S.) held in Countries around the world to honour those who have fought to defend our freedom. Several years ...
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• Sovereignty is no mere Legal Issue

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 473
  Many blogs help us to better understand Taiwan’s legal positions and its situation. They also help to question the CCP narrative (subscribed to at various degrees by the KMT, America, Japan, EU and other governments, and organizations, and individuals), according to which Taiwan were “part of China”.The view ...
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• New Call of Duty Coming In 2010

  
  What The Christ? — Authority: 152
  According to the most recent Activision Blizzard earnings call, there’s a new Call of Duty game coming in 2010. It will be developed by Treyarch , which means that it’s not going to be another Modern Warfare . It sounds at this point like it will be something set after World War II . There will be lots more ...
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• My Father’s War Stories Shared to Honor Veterans

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 556
  On the occasion of Veterans Day 2009, I pay honor to those who’ve served and/or paid the ultimate price in service to their country by publishing a series of war stories that holds a special value in my heart, because they were written by my father, Ted. He served as a low-ranking enlisted man in the U.S. Army ...
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• BBC Primary History World War 2

  
  iLearn Technology — Authority: 124
  What it is: The BBC has so many incredible technology resources and websites for students.  Today I learned about the BBC Primary History World War 2 website.  I am really impressed with the wealth of information on this site, but also the age group it is targeted at: primary students.  So much of the time, ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Malcolm Redfellow's World Service — Authority: 119
  Botching ones words Today the Guardian s Sam Wollaston does his regular review of Last nights TV . Predictably he hits on the BBC/HBO co-production of the Churchill biopic: Were you watching, Gordon? Into the Storm, on BBC2? Thats how to do it. So there arent enough helicopters to fight the Taliban? Did a lack of ...
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• Chilling Footage of the Nazi’s Marching Down Pall Mall in London

  
  Anglotopia — Authority: 435
  This a very rare and chilling bit of video. It’s of the Nazi’s marching down Pall Mall in London for the funeral of the German Ambassador in 1936. It’s chilling and amazing. Part of a new show on London’s World War II History. When Nazis marched through London Wartime London with Harry Harris – Nazi ...
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• Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp

  
  The Sound of the Noising Machine — Authority: 126
  There was once an internment/refugee camp in France that went by the name of Gurs . During WWII, after France joined up with the Nazis, Camp Gurs became home to non-French Jews and other “dangerous” people. Although this was a concentration camp, and obviously not a nice place to live, the people within Gurs were ...
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• Understanding the German Mindset During World War II

  
  I Luv SA — Authority: 497
  Tell me this whole scenario doesnt sound all too familiar to us. Its a Rainbow Nation phenomenon, but its certainly not just limited to South Africa. The question that arises in my mind is, what price will be paid for such ignorance? The price that the Germans paid after World War 2 was almost unthinkable. The ...
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• Last Surviving Member of Hitler’s Inner Circle Dies

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  The Telegraph reports on the death of Fritz Darges, who died last Saturday at age 96: Darges was the last surviving member of Hitler’s inner circle and was present for all major conferences, social engagements and policy announcements for four years of the war. Much of his time after 1942 was either spent at ...
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