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Freedom's Forge (New York: Random House, 2012). ISBN 9780812982046 on YouTube; Knudsen, William S. (Current Biography, 1940:464-466) Knudsen, William Signius (American National Biography, 12:843-844) Lacey, James. The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power That Won World War II (2019) pp. 213–222.
Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to build oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War.
Mark Felton (born 1974) is an English author, historian and YouTuber.Felton has written over a dozen non-fiction books. He runs several channels on YouTube covering different historical subjects of the 20th and 21st century, mainly related to World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.
He received the Bronze Star Medal and the Légion d'honneur for his service during World War II. In 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama. Medicine Crow was a founding member of the Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth. [1] He was the last war chief of the Crow Tribe and the last Plains Indian war chief.
Nearly 250 years ago, America's Founding Fathers made good on their dream of establishing one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.. On July 4, 1776, they signed The Declaration ...
Henry Kaiser was an early advocate of bringing American aid to those suffering from German aggression in Europe. In 1940, a full year before the US had entered World War II, Kaiser served as National Chairman of United Clothing Collection for International War Relief to provide much-needed clothing for the refugees from Hitler's conquests in ...
National Freedom Day was observed for the first time in the United States, commemorating Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on February 1, 1865. Presidential elections were held in Chile , won by Juan Antonio Ríos of the Radical Party .
Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 [a] – 13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II.He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies about the situation in German-occupied Poland.