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Archive for July, 2008

Podcast – D-Day Broadcast Pt 4

31 Jul

World War II History – Audio Feature

Podcast: Columbia News Broadcast – D-Day Broadcast Pt 4

This audio program is the 4th part of the news broadcast after the landings in Normandy on D-Day (44-Jun-06) that went out to the United States.

 
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World War II History for July 26

26 Jul

Today in WW II History

World War II History for July 26

1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt seized all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.

1945 - Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister.

 

Photo – US Navy Hellcat

25 Jul

Photo – World War II – Color

US Navy Hellcat fighter on aircraft carrier deck.

View more photos at our World War II History Photo Gallery

 

Podcast – World War II History for July 25

25 Jul

World War II History – Audio Feature

Podcast: World War II History for July 25

Read the audio text at http://wwarii.com/blog/archives/world-war-ii-history-for-july-25.

 
 

World War II History for July 25

25 Jul

Today in WW II History

World War II History for July 25

1934 - Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was shot and killed by Nazis.

1941 - The U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets.

1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.

Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy, is voted out of power by his own Grand Council and arrested upon leaving a meeting with King Vittorio Emanuele, who tells Il Duce that the war is lost. Mussolini responded to it all with an uncharacteristic meekness.

 

Podcast – D-Day Broadcast Pt 3

25 Jul

World War II History – Audio Feature

Podcast: Columbia News Broadcast – D-Day Broadcast Pt 3

This audio program is the 3rd part of the news broadcast after the landings in Normandy on D-Day (44-Jun-06) that went out to the United States.

 
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Podcast – D-Day Broadcast Pt 2

24 Jul

World War II History – Audio Feature

Podcast: Columbia News Broadcast – D-Day Broadcast Pt 2

This audio program is the 2nd part of the CBS news broadcast after the landings in Normandy on D-Day (44-Jun-06) that went out to the United States, BBC news updates, and more.

 
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World War II History for July 24

24 Jul

Today in WW II History

World War II History for July 24

1941 - Japan invaded China by moving through Southeast Asia, an area that France had long occupied. France had “agreed” to the occupation under Petain’s puppet government.

1943 - Britain launched Operation Gomorrah. The operation was consisted of repeated bombing raids against Hamburg’s industrial and munition plants.

1948 - Soviet occupation forces in Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.-British airlift began the following day.

 

WW2 vet gets long-lost Army cup back

23 Jul

WW2 vet gets long-lost Army cup back
July 23, 2008 – UPI.com

BROOKSVILLE, Fla., July 23 (UPI) — Years after a Florida man lost the tin cup he carried as a soldier through Africa and Europe, he got it back from a woman who found it in a New York field.

Leonard Noreen’s name and serial number were inscribed on the cup with “Smash and Drive,” the motto of the 422nd Regiment. He also used it for a record of his military service, etching the places his unit was deployed and the dates, Hernando Today reported.

Noreen brought the cup home, but it vanished decades ago. He thinks one of his children took it to school.

Then last week, he got a call from Monica Hill of Owosso, Mich. She told him she found the cup 30 years ago in Hudson, N.Y., near where Noreen once lived in Averill Park.

Hill said she had been trying to trace him for years and finally succeeded through a genealogy Web site.

“I didn’t start crying, but I was tremendously emotional. It’s only a cup, but I carried that thing for years.”

Noreen said that his unit got moved around a lot because they were shipped to “places where the war was being lost.”

“When you’re losing a war, you don’t stay in one place for too long,” he said.

 
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World War II History for July 23

23 Jul

Today in WW II History

World War II History for July 23

1940 - The Soviet Union took control of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

 
 
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