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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

{ Article added: 11/06/2009 }
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Categories : Photographs, World War II
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph depicting six U.S. servicemen raising an American flag on the summit of Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The photograph was ...Read More »

Task Force Baum

{ Article added: 06/09/2009 }
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Taking place in the late stages of World war II, Task Force Baum was a secret mission organized by General George S. Patton that sent over 300 men and nearly 60 vehicles fifty miles behind German lines to liberate a ...Read More »

Operation Mincemeat

{ Article added: 06/09/2009 }
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Operation Mincemeat was a deception project undertaken by the British in World War II to fool the Germans into anticipating an invasion in an area other than the true target. The operation used a corpse -- disguised as a ...Read More »

Pavlov’s House

{ Article added: 05/08/2009 }
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Categories : Places & Locations, World War II
Pavlov's House was a half-ruined, four-story apartment building in the center of Stalingrad that became a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II. During the Battle of Stalingrad, the building was defended by a group of Russians usually ...Read More »

Unidentified body on Christmas Island

{ Article added: 05/04/2009 }
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Categories : The Unexplained, World War II
In 1942, the remains of an unidentified sailor were found on a life raft in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Christmas Island. It is unclear for certain, but generally believed that the corpse is that of a ...Read More »

Japanese holdout

{ Article added: 04/25/2009 }
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Japanese holdout refers to the soldiers of the Empire of Japan who continued to fight after the end of World War II, some not surrendering themselves until the 1970s. Some had never established communication with their superiors and therefore ...Read More »

Pykrete

{ Article added: 04/23/2009 }
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Categories : Science & Nature, World War II
Invented by Geoffrey Pyke, the composite material pykrete is a mixture of sawdust or wood pulp and ice that was initially developed as part of Project Habakkuk to be used to build an unsinkable aircraft carrier for use by the ...Read More »
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