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Douglas MacArthur was born.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 1880. and graduated from West Point in 1903. MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. -
George Marshall was born.
George Catlett Marshall, Jr., was born into a middle-class family in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. He was regonized as an America's foremost soldier during World War II, served as chief of staff from 1939 to 1945, building and directing the largest army in history. -
Chester W. Nimitz was born.
He was born near a quaint hotel in Fredericksburg, Nimitz was a five-star admiral of the United States Navy and held the dual command of Commander in Chief. -
George S. Patton was born.
Born in 1885 in San Gabriel, California,Patton's family was from a extensive military background, Patton was a general in the United States Army, most well known for his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army -
Dwight Eisenhower was born.
Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States. Along that, he was the commander of cheif of the Allied Forces and led the D-day invasion. -
Omar Bradley was born.
He was born into poverty in rural Randolph County, near Clark, Missouri. He was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. -
Concentration Camps
These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder. -
Liberty Ships
Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. they were purchased for the U.S. fleet and for lend-lease deliveries of war material to the Allies via deliveries through Iran. -
Flying Tigers
The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, recruited under presidential authority and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. The defended against Japaneese agresion. -
Island Hopping
is a term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination. It was a strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War Il -
Tuskegee Airmen
is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. Because of racial discrimination, African American servicemen were not allowed to learn to fly until 1941, when African American college graduates were selected for what the Army called "an experiment"-- the creation of the segregated 99th Fighter Squadron, which trained at an airfield adjacent to Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. -
Merchant Marines
The United States Merchant Marine is the fleet of U.S. civilian-owned merchant vessels, operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. -
Navajo Code Talkers
Most codes during WWII were broken; yet the Navajo Code Talkers confounded the enemy by talking in an unbreakable code. In 1942, a man named Philip Johnston thought of a code he thought unbreakable by the enemy. A code based on the Navajo language. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March involved thousands of American and Filipino soldiers were surrendered to Japanese forces. The Americans were Army, Army Air Corps, Navy and Marines. Among those seized were members of the 200th Coast Artillery, New Mexico National Guard.They were marched for days in the scorching heat through the Philippine jungles. Thousands died. Those who survived faced the hardships of a prisoner of war camp. -
Battle of Midway
On this day in 1942, the Battle of Midway--one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II--begins. During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy. -
Multiple Front War
A military method of battle, where you split your military into two forces, one fighting on land, and the other in sea -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code-name given to the Allied invasion of France scheduled for June 1944. The overall commander of Operation Overlord was General Dwight Eisenhower. -
D-Day
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Conventional Weapons
Weapons that include small arms and light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as bombs, shells, rockets, missiles and cluster munitions. They were not inteneded for mass destruction. -
Potsdam Conference
On 16 July 1945, the "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin. In this, the last of the World War II heads of state conferences, President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime Ministers Churchill and Atlee discussed post-war arrangements in Europe, frequently without agreement. Future moves in the war against Japan were also covered. One result of the conference was a 26 July joint proclamation by the U.S., Great Britain and China, the three main powers fighting Japan. -
Atomic Weapons
The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Killing thousands of people. it was a turning point in the war and was a huge shock. -
Congressional Medal of Honor
The highest U.S. military decoration, awarded in the name of Congress to members of the armed forces for gallantry and bravery beyond the call of duty in action against an enemy.
