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Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Mark Waldie | Published: March 12, 2009 at 3:12 pm (2 Comments)

France is a pretty country full of pretty little villages. But Oradour-sur-Glane is not pretty. On June 10, 1944, the 2nd Waffen SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 1st Battalion, stormed this village in the Limousin region of southwestern France, sealed …

May 2008 - Manzanar War Relocation Center, CA

William J. Cook | Published: March 11, 2009 at 3:16 pm (1 Comment)

The Manzanar War Relocation Center, now a National Park Service historic site located 200 miles north of Los Angeles, California, is the best-preserved place to see what happened when more than 10,000 Japanese Americans and resident aliens wrongly suspected of being enemy agents were rounded up and incarcerated in remote internment centers.

Project Liberty Ship

Guy Aceto | Published: March 12, 2008 at 3:14 pm

At its berth in Baltimore, the hulking gray SS John W. Brown looks out of place alongside the more brightly colored civilian container ships docked around us. One of only two Liberty ships still operational out of the original fleet of 2,710 that the United States produced for the war effort, the John W. Brown has been fully restored and is now operated by an all-volunteer nonprofit organization, Project Liberty Ship.

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