Showing posts with label WW11. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW11. Show all posts

Friday, December 27, 2019

Bastogne Relieved

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"Situation 1200 hours 27 December 1944 Twelfth Army Group"; Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, World War II; Record Group 331; National Archives.
Completely surrounded in the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, the 101st Airborne Division held off besieging German forces for eight days until their relief by General George Patton�s Third Army on December 26, 1944. The break in German lines surrounding Bastogne is shown at the center of this situation map from December 27, 1944..."
Bastogne

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Restitution for Wartime Internment

"Approved August 10, 1988, H.R. 442, or "An Act to implement recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians" awarded restitution payments of $20,000 to Japanese-American survivors of World War II civilian internment camps..."
President Reagan’s Remarks on Signing H.R. 442...
Restitution for WW11 Japanese intirnment

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Marines Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, 02/23/1945


"On February 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. It was taken down, and a second flag was raised. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured this second flag-raising. Now part of U.S. Navy records, it is one of the most famous war photographs in U.S. history..." 
Iwo Jima

Monday, December 7, 2015

Radiogram reporting the Pearl Harbor attack, December 7, 1941

"Radiogram reporting the Pearl Harbor attack, from Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet (CINCPAC) to all ships in Hawaiian area, December 7, 1941; 17th Naval District, Kodiak, Alaska, General Files, 1940-46, E 91, Dispatches, Pearl Harbor; Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments, 1784 - 1981; Record Group 181.."
Pearl Harbor attack