U.S.
Submarine Veteran's of World War II
via Ric Hedman's Through
The Looking Glass
Ships
and Tonnage Sunk in WWII by U.S. SUBMARINES
Click picture for a larger image.
Photo is maintained at National Archives
Kissing the War Goodbye
VJ Day, Times Square,
August 14, 1945
The lesser known photo angle by Navy
Photographer Victor Jorgensen
Posting date: 14 August 2012
Book
confirms RI man as iconic kissing sailor By: Bill
Rappleye | NBC 10
A Middletown, Rhode Island man wins
his battle to prove he's the kissing sailor in a famous Life Magazine photograph
from Times Square at the end of World War II.
News that Japan would surrender reached
the United States on Aug. 14, 1945, but a formal surrender did not occur
until Sept. 2, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the supreme Allied commander
in the Pacific, accepted it on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
Radio
days - VJ Day
Japan Capitulates, August - September
1945
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/japansur/japansur.htm
Video: VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii,
August 14, 1945 by Richard Sullivan
http://vimeo.com/5645171
WW-II
US NAVY - The TENTH FLEET
The most unusual fleet that ever existed.
It had 50 people and no ships. Find
out more here.
A
Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents, 1925-1949
Atomic
Bomb Decision Page
Battle
Off Samar Main Menu
Notes
on Battle Off Samar by AGM2c Gilbert S. Raynor, USNR
A
Marine On Guadalcanal by Rube Garrett
See his Recommended
WWII internet resources
From the History
Net:
Their archive of of ALL
WWII ISSUES
Get the current World War Two Issue
HERE
The
History Place - World War Two in Europe
Arnold
Spring's Experiences
Brothers
In Battle -- Battle of Peleliu
Link provided by the daughter of Capt.
Watkins USMC
NORMANDY and D-DAY (EARN
THIS)
via U.S.
Military HONORS!
Treaties,
Declarations, Instruments of Surrender
WW2
Timeline
Chronology
of WW II
Pacific
War via The History Place
World
War Two in Europe Timeline via The History Place
ERNIE PYLE - A
(The) WWII Correspondent
A
WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY
The
Punchbowl National Cemetary
None
Today Can Hold A Candle To Ernie Pyle
Ernie
Pyle 'antithetical to daily journalism,' biographer says
Outdoor
Indiana - Ernie Pyle Exhibit
A
Look At The Life Of Ernie Pyle
Remembering
Ernie Pyle
Honoring
Ernie Pyle via Soldiers Mag.
WORLD
WAR II
A class room project developed in the
Fall of 1996 by teachers in the San Diego Unified School District's Triton
Project, a Challenge Grant funded by the U. S. Department of Education. |
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