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What Roosevelt Said When He Heard Britain Would Fight On Alone-ZZ
The telephone call came through to the White House at a half nine on the evening of May 15th, 1940. President Franklin Roosevelt sat at…
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What Japanese Admirals Said When They Saw the Losses After Midway-ZZ – Part 2
But the trajectory was set on June 4th, 1942 when American dive bombers found the Japanese carriers with their decks full of armed aircraft and…
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What Japanese Admirals Said When They Saw the Losses After Midway-ZZ
June 4th, 1942. Aboard the battleship Yamato, 300 miles northwest of Midway Otto, Admiral Isuroku Yamamoto stood in the operations room as radio reports crackled…
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What Japanese High Command Said When They Saw the Essex-Class Carriers Arrive One After Another-ZZ
December 7th, 1941. Six Japanese aircraft carriers, their decks still warm from launching the most successful naval air strike in history, turned northwest toward home…
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What German Generals Said When They Saw the Red Army Was Still Advancing After Stalingrad-ZZ – Part 2
Tank armies punched through the shattered defenses before German reserves could react. Mobile groups raced into German rare areas, cutting off retreat routes encircling entire…
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What German Generals Said When They Saw the Red Army Was Still Advancing After Stalingrad-ZZ
February 2nd, 1943. The last German radio transmissions from Stalingrad went silent. 300,000 men of the Sixth Army were dead or captured. In Berlin, in…
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What Churchill Said When He Saw America’s War Machine Up Close-ZZ – Part 2
What did Churchill say when he saw America’s war machine up close? The official record contains diplomatic praise and careful political language, but those who…
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What Churchill Said When He Saw America’s War Machine Up Close-ZZ
Washington, December 22nd, 1941. Winston Churchill stepped off the plane onto American soil, his body still aching from the 9-day Atlantic crossing that had brought…
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What Stalin Said When The Nazis Reached the Gates of Moscow-ZZ
October 16, 1941, Moscow. A cold rain fell on Makovski Square as Nikolai Bulganin, future Soviet premier, but then just a mid-level administrator, watched people…
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What French Civilians Said When Britain Fought On While France Surrendered-ZZ
June 22nd, 1940. In a railway carriage in the forest of Compenia, the same carriage where Germany had signed its surrender in 1918, French officials…
- How One Cowboy’s ‘Criminal’ Move Made a Japanese POW Woman Break Protocol-ZZ
Steam coiled off the tin mug in her trembling hands. The Texas sun bore down,… Read more: How One Cowboy’s ‘Criminal’ Move Made a Japanese POW Woman Break Protocol-ZZ - “Cowboys Said ‘She Belongs at the Table’” — What Happened Next Shocked Japanese Women POWs-ZZ
Dust swirled in the wind as the truck ground to a stop in the middle… Read more: “Cowboys Said ‘She Belongs at the Table'” — What Happened Next Shocked Japanese Women POWs-ZZ - “Cowboys Said ‘Hand Her the Rifle’” — Japanese Women POWs Couldn’t Believe What Happened Next-ZZ
The rifle was heavy, too heavy for someone who had spent weeks starving. She stared… Read more: “Cowboys Said ‘Hand Her the Rifle'” — Japanese Women POWs Couldn’t Believe What Happened Next-ZZ - Japanese POW Woman Gave a Silent Signal to The Camp Hound — What It Did Next Shocked Cowboys-ZZ
The dog’s ears twitched before the cowboy even noticed. Behind the wire fence, under the… Read more: Japanese POW Woman Gave a Silent Signal to The Camp Hound — What It Did Next Shocked Cowboys-ZZ - “Cowboys Said ‘She Cooks Like My Wife’” — What Happened Next Stunned Japanese Women POWs-ZZ
The smell hit them first. A thick smoky warmth drifting through the wire. Not the… Read more: “Cowboys Said ‘She Cooks Like My Wife'” — What Happened Next Stunned Japanese Women POWs-ZZ - “Cowboys Said ‘She Sleeps in My House’” — What Japanese Female POWs Saw Next Left Them Stunned-ZZ
The truck bumped along a dusty road, trailing a plume of red dirt across the… Read more: “Cowboys Said ‘She Sleeps in My House'” — What Japanese Female POWs Saw Next Left Them Stunned-ZZ