WWII

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• SOURCE: Slate
  11/26/19
  

  The History of “History is Written by the Victors”

  Many attribute the adage to Winston Churchill, but it turns out he was just rewriting some losers.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  11/5/2019
  

  U.S. Navy Destroyer Sunk in World War II Is Found 20,000 Feet Under the Sea

  Researchers say they believe the debris field off the Philippines is from the U.S.S. Johnston DD-557, which played a pivotal role in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  10/5/2019
  

  Keep History Flying: Warbirds In The Wake Of The B-17 Crash

  This week, a World War II-era B-17 tragically crashed in Connecticut. As we absorb what happened, it is important to understand the context behind the flight.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/2/19
  

  This Mexican American Teenager Spent Years in a Japanese Internment Camp—On Purpose

  Ralph Lazo wasn’t of Japanese descent, but he spent two years at Manzanar in solidarity with his friends.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  October 1, 2019
  

  New Audiotape from D-Day Invasion from WWII

  by Michael E. Ruane

  Reporter George Hicks recorded the deafening chaos of battle. On Monday, his original tapes were donated to the National D-Day Memorial.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/15/2019
  

  Alan Turing, Computing Genius And WWII Hero, To Be On U.K.'s New 50-Pound Note

  It will include a quote from Turing: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-2-2019
  

  Uffizi Prods Germans to Return Painting Stolen in World War II

  A German family has the artwork, and refuses to give it back. The Italian museum has mounted a publicity campaign in an effort to get German authorities to intervene.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-29-2018
  

  British Design for D-Day Stamp Gets Address Wrong by 8,000 Miles

  An error in a design for a stamp to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day — it showed American troops on the wrong beach, in Asia instead of Europe — has spurred an apology to veterans and their families.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-26-2018
  

  The remarkable — and secret — first presidential visit to troops fighting overseas

  Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first commander in chief to fly in an airplane during his 1943 trip to North Africa.

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• 1/16/19
  

  The Defect that Brexit and MAGA Share

  by Jonathan Fennell

  After yesterday's Brexit defeat, the lessons that Brexiteers and Trump could learn from World War 2.

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• 12/14/2018
  

  75 Years Ago Ernie Pyle Wrote a Tribute to a Dead World War 2 Soldier

  by Gregory Sumner

  It’s still worth remembering.

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• 12/23/2018
  

  Josephine Baker’s Secret Life as a World War II Spy

  by Sherry Jones

  A fiction writer tells this story in a new novel.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11-30-18
  

  'Comfort women': anger as Japan paper alters description of WWII terms

  Change prompts concern that country’s media is trying to rewrite wartime history under rightwing pressure.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-20-18
  

  Suit Accuses Dutch Museums of Holding On to Nazi-Tainted Art

  Throughout World War II, the Dutch art dealers Benjamin and Nathan Katz sold art they owned, but three generations of the Katz family have argued that their actions were made under duress and have fought for decades to regain possession of scores of works transferred during the war.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  11-13-18
  

  Trump Ridicules French for Losses in World Wars

  He says the U.S. had to rescue them.

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• 11/18/18
  

  The Classic Story of America’s Triumph as a World Power after WW2 Overlooks This One Fact

  by Derek Leebaert

  The British Empire stood in the way. Not until the late 1950s did the US finally become a superpower.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-30-18
  

  How a World War II-Era Reparations Case Is Roiling Asia

  South Korea’s top court stirred decades-old resentments that threaten to inflame relations with Japan, ordering a leading Japanese steel maker to compensate Korean men forced to work as slave laborers during World War II.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10-19-18
  

  Norway Apologizes for Persecuting WWII “German Girls”

  Women who consorted with Nazi soldiers were attacked, shunned and deported after the war.

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• 10/28/18
  

  Why Liberals Need to Be Working NOW for a Federal Jobs Program

  by Steven Attewell

  And the surprising reason direct job creation was abandoned after WWII.

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• 9/15/18
  

  Trump’s Ignoring Latin America. We Do that at Our Peril.

  by Mary Jo McConahay

  Lessons from World War II.