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  1. Heart Pounding WWII Footage. 30 Nov 2009 | Posted by vlogger. WARNING GRAPHIC - A collection of some of the most brutal and incredible footage from WWII. Categories Video Army World War II Editors ...

  2. On May 2, 2015 Dr. Harold Hubbard sat down and told about his experiences in World War II. Harold, born in Columbus, OH, served in the Navy. He was an aviati...

  3. Sep 12, 2024 · L. Ron Hubbard (born March 13, 1911, Tilden, Nebraska, U.S.—died January 24, 1986, San Luis Obispo, California) was an American novelist and founder of the Church of Scientology. Hubbard grew up in Helena, Montana, and studied at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. In the 1930s and ’40s he published short stories and novels in ...

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    Between June and October 1940, the RAF engaged in a deadly battle over the skies of southern Englandwith wave after wave of Luftwaffe bombers and fighter planes. At stake was the supremacy of the air and, in turn, the survival of the United Kingdom. Following the fall of France, the only country still standing in the way of Hitler’s total dominance...

    Free from occupying forces, Britain became an unsinkable ship, able to launch constant bombing raids against German industrial, military, and civilian targets. This hampered the Germans’ ability to fight the war effectively and severely lowered enemy morale. As well as being a base for both British raids on the German homeland and its military inte...

    Unable to fight in continental Europe, the British instead turned their attention to North Africa, fighting several battles against the Italians and the Germans to drive them from the continent. The battles fought between General Bernard Montgomery and his opposite number, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, culminated in Rommel’s defeat in the Battle of E...

    The British knew they hadn’t much hope of taking the fight directly to the Germans at the start of the war, but what they did have was an intelligence network that was second to none. The full weight of British intelligence was thrown into the war effort and produced astonishing results that proved vital. The Special Operations Executive (SOE), for...

    With an empire stretching from Canada to Australia, Britain was able to raise a fighting force the Germans and the Japanese could never hope to match. In India alone, Britain raised an army of 1.4 million troops who went on to play vital roles in both the European and Pacific theatres. While many people see the Pacific as primarily a war between Ja...

    Of course, it wasn’t just on land that Britain made an invaluable contribution to the war. At sea, the gigantic Royal Navyplayed a pivotal role in defeating the Axis powers from day one of the conflict to the very end of the war. In Europe and the Middle East, Royal Navy blockades confined the Italian and German navies to port due to a chronic shor...

  4. About the Film. The War is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on ...

  5. Mar 17, 2023 · About a month after World War II started, President Franklin D. Roosevelt articulated the need to convey to the American populace a more accurate understanding of six crucial aspects of the conflict: the issues of the war, the enemy’s goals and characteristics, the concept of the Allied coalition, the importance of domestic production, the role of civilians on the home front, and the ...

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  7. World War II archive HD footage A massive collection of footage documenting the Second World War. Clips from around the world that show the formation of the Axis powers, the growth in military might of Germany and Japan, the response from Europe, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, and their efforts together with the United States to fight Hitler's Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

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