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Original Technorati articles tagged “world war ii”

• in Gaming
  Heroes in the Sky - Review
  A look into a fast paced and fun flight simulator set in World War II
  by Trinity / on Apr 30, 2012
• in Film
  Zone Troopers (1985) is a Tongue-in-Cheek Battle Hymn
  They Take War To A New Dimension.
  by missbobetier / on Jan 30, 2012
• in Gadgets
  HD Changing How We Look at History
  The History Channels History Film Corps is bringing historic film into the HD age
  by sdgully / on Dec 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “world war ii”

 

• Rape by American Soldiers in World War II France

  
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  “What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France,” a book by the historian Mary Louise Roberts, documents rape and other misconduct among the greatest generation.        
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• Harry Trumans Seagoing White House Rusts In Italian Shipyard

  
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  Filed under: North America , United States , News What was once one of the worlds most famous ships is know rusting away in an Italian shipyard. The U.S.S. Williamsburg, a naval ship that became President Harry Trumans personal yacht in 1945 and was once considered an American treasure, could be scrapped ...
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• Television Review: ‘The Ghost Army,’ on PBS, About the 23rd Headquarters

  
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  “The Ghost Army,” a documentary on PBS, chronicles the efforts of 1,100 men whose job was to create a fake army that would be deployed in Europe to try to confuse the Germans.        
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• 20 May 2013. RIA-Novosti Video. A Guided Tour of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial

  
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  11 April: International Day to Remember the Liberation of the Prisoners of the Nazi Concentration Camps Yefim Tsvik 1985 ****** A vid on the surviving buildings of Auschwitz I camp… yes, Virginia, it DID exist, and Williamson is spouting rubbish on it (he’s been convicted in court of Holocaust ...
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• Sandusky High School Graduates in the Military, Spring 1918

  
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  The April 1918 issue of the Fram featured the names of seventy-six individuals who had either attended or graduated from Sandusky High School, and were serving in military service during World War I. The names were arranged alphabetically by surname, with the year of graduation listed after the name. ...
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• Events May 21-23: A WWII Fighter Pilot’s Tale, Asian Pacific American Culture and the Mississippi River

  
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  Learn the history of the Mississippi River and our influence on it in the documentary Troubled Waters: Mississippi River Story, on view at the Anacostia Community Museum this Thursday. Photo courtesy of Flickr user bluepoint951 . Tuesday, May 21: Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture: Bud Anderson Aircraft ...
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• Dont Worry About Todays Retirees: Boomers Are Fine, (but Gen X Isnt)

  
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  Filed under: Retirement Plans , Saving Alamy By NIN-HAI TSENG When the nations financial system almost crashed back in 2008, its easy to see why anyone approaching retirement would have panicked. They saw their lifelong savings plummet as home and stock prices spiraled. For 60-somethings, it seemed there ...
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• Harlem Documentarian William Miles Dies at 82

  
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  William Miles *Documentarian William Miles, whose films include 1981’s “I Remember Harlem” and 1992’s “Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II,” died May 12 in New York, according to the NY Times. He was 82. In 1977 the Harlem native made his first documentary “Men Of Bronze,” about the ...
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• Memorial Day: Commemorating and Remembering Our Veterans and Those Who Serve

  
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  May 27th is Memorial Day. Did you know that this U.S. federal holiday goes as far back as the American Civil War in the 1860s? Memorial Day, formerly known as Decoration Day, occurs ever year on the last Monday of the month of May and is the day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United ...
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• Latitude: Comparing Nazism and Communism Online In Russia And Causing A Storm

  
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  A fierce debate has erupted in Russia over whether Nazism and Communism are comparable.        
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• Perception, Reaction & Mindfulness

  
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  I am frequently asked “What is mindfulness?” I start by saying something poignant like “It’s being aware and in the present moment” or “It’s about allowing each experience to wash over us like a cool spring rain, without attachment or judgments.” I love these answers and they generally tend to spawn ...
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• Missing the window on kids’ books

  
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  Amidst the enormous pile of cullable books in my bedroom right now were these two books by Kit Pearson about British children evacuated to Canada. They’ve been there for a while because I started reading one of them and got bored, and then I never finished because I didn’t want to face the fact that I have these ...
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• Do You Like Tapioca?

  
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  Did your Mom ever break her own house rules? Cedar Rapids metropolitan area. From left Benton County, Linn County, and Jones County. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was in second grade, seven years old. We almost never had dessert in our house. Years later I learned, though she never talked about it, my Mom was ...
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• Was Joseph Kennedy Really an Anti-Semite?

  
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  Credit: Wiki Commons. Was Joseph P. Kennedy, the father of President John F. Kennedy, really an anti-Semite? David Nasaw, Kennedys recent biographer, defined an anti-Semite , for the purposes of his book The Patriarch , as "someone who believes that theres something in the genetic makup -- in the blood -- of Jews ...
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• Book Review – The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

  
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  The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 by Rick Atkinson, is the third volume in his Liberation Trilogy. Begun in 2002 with the release of An Army at Dawn: The War in North...
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• Delousing Chambers – German Plan to Save the Lives of Jews and Gentiles

  
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  Photo above was taken by the British Military at the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen. It shows the victims of the typhus epidemic which occurred at the end of World War II. Unfortunately, this photo, as well as countless others are commonly shown in the Holocaust documentaries either without commentary or without ...
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• Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff

  
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  I dont read military histories that often. Occasionally, I will read a work of military history--usually one that focuses more on individuals rather than strategy and troop movements. Frozen in Time is my type of popular military history. The book is split into two narratives, or as Zuckoff tells it, "two true ...
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• Ministry of Truth: Death and Burial in Guangdong

  
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  The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Guangdong Propaganda Department: On the morning of May 17, a Huanan Agricultural University PhD student hanged himself and passed away. The media must not investigate, report, or ...
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• Doolittle Raiders – The Final Reunion

  
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  Three of the four Doolittle Raiders visited the Fort Walton Beach, Fla., one last time to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the retaliatory attack on Japan after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Read More
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• Japan ruling party executive to keep visiting war shrine

  
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  The policy chief of Japan’s ruling party vowed on Sunday to keep paying homage at a controversial war shrine despite anger and diplomatic protests by China and South Korea. Nearly 170 Japanese lawmakers made a pilgrimage last month to the Yasukuni Shrine, a flashpoint in a bitter dispute between Japan and Asian ...
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