(Photo: USG via Materialscientist)Desmond Doss was drafted into the US Army in 1942. He was a pacifist and so wouldn’t take up arms. He was also a Seventh-Day Adventist and so wouldn’t work on Saturdays. So h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/10/Desmond-Doss-The-Pacifist-Who-Was-Awarded-the-Medal-of-Honor/(Photo: Lt. Col. Presley M. Rixey)Siwash, a duck,... ...nd later the entire Second Marine Division during World War II . He went ashore with the Marines at the Battle of... ...d at the Marine sport of drinking beer. After the war , he lived on a farm before working as a Marine re... ...e working as a Marine r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/05/Siwash-The-Duck-Who-Fought-with-the-Marines-during-World-War-II/(Photo: Stranger20824)The Oise-Anise American Ceme... ...ican soldiers who died in the line of duty during World War I. The United States and France honor these falle... ...ican soldiers who were executed for crimes during World War II . Atlas Obscura explains:The soldiers ev...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/18/The-Secret-American-Military-Cemetery-Where-There-Are-No-Names-and-Flags-Are-Forbidden/Between 1943 and 1945, captured German soldiers we... ...120 square feet.) Food was fresh and showers were warm . College credits earned would count at universiti... ...worked hard to become American citizens after the war . Read about the World War II
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/16/The-German-POWs-of-Texas/(Photo: Li-sung)Nicholas Winton was a 29-year old... ...ned to Britain as that nation and Germany went to war in 1939. He drove an ambulance and later joined t... ...e and later joined the Royal Air Force. After the war , he worked in various positions, including co-own... ...n a scrapbook containing document...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/01/RIP-Sir-Nicholas-Winton-Who-Saved-669-Children-during-the-Holocaust/(Photo: NPR)Before World War II , F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gats... ...is regarded as a treasure of American literature. World War II had a profound impact on American culture, includ... ...rket for inexpensive paperback reprints after the war . Thinking alon...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/06/03/How-World-War-II-Made-America-Literate/On Sunday, people gathered at the Netherlands Amer... ...buried there were the liberators of the Dutch in World War II . Each American grave was “adopted” by... ...rder, including scores of descendants of American war dead who had traveled here from all over the Unit...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/25/Americans-Heroes-Buried-in-the-Netherlands-are-Not-Forgotten/(Photo: Madeline Marshall/Wall Street Journal)Earl... ...Alan Sanford, 18, was on board the destroyer USS Ward . That ship guarded the entrance to Pearl Harbor.... ...to fire at the object. On the opening day of the war , 75 minutes before Japanese warplanes swarmed over the a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/21/RIP-Alan-Sanford-The-Man-Who-Fired-the-First-US-Shots-of-World-War-II/(Image: BBC)Joy Lofthouse, 92, was a pilot with Br... ...lot with Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II . She flew the UK's legendary Spitfire fighter pla... ...ircraft and supplies throughout the UK during the war .Lofthouse and her colleagues, which included her...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/10/92-Year-Old-World-War-II-Fighter-Pilot-Flies-a-Spitfire-Again/Did you hear the one about the plot to sneak estro... ...ritory, he would lose his hold on Germany and the war would be won.Sources differ on whether the hope w...
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