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First Lieutenant Reba Zitella Whittle (August 19, 1919 – January 26, 1981 [1]) was a member of the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War II.She became the only American military female prisoner of war in the European Theater after her casualty evacuation aircraft was shot down in September 1944.
World War II evacuation and expulsion, an overview of the major forced migrations Forced migration of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians to Germany as forced labour; Forced migration of Jews to Nazi concentration camps in the General Government. Expulsion of Germans after World War II from areas occupied by the Red Army; Evacuation of ...
Evacuees fleeing Hurricane Rita in Texas, United States. This list of mass evacuations includes emergency evacuations of a large number of people in a short period of time. An emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event whether from natural or man made causes, or as the result of war
Evacuation of the Gibraltarian civilian population during World War II; Evacuation of the Louvre collection during World War II; Evacuation of the Polish Army from Saint-Jean-de-Luz; Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II; Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II; Evacuations of civilians in Japan during World War II
During the Second World War these camps were used as schools for evacuated children, run by local education authorities. [2] The first camp to be used in this way was at Kennylands, near Reading. [2] Some modifications were required for this purpose, as the camps had been intended for temporary holiday guests, rather than a semi-permanent ...
Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939 which marked the beginning of World War II, the campaign of ethnic "cleansing" became the goal of military operations for the first time since the end of World War I. After the end of the war, between 13.5 and 16.5 million German-speakers lost their homes in formerly German lands and all over ...
Unaccompanied evacuated children, Aged and infirm people evacuated from shelters, Essential war-workers living away from home, Fracture cases among Civil Defence workers, and others essential to industry, Seamen of the Merchant Navy, Evacuated or homeless persons billeted at the Government's expense, A few other special cases.
The lack of legal protection for children in times of war, which allows for their exploitation, can be linked to the lack of a universally recognised definition of a child during World War II. Prior to the creation of the United Nations during World War II, protection of child welfare was predominantly embodied in the laws of war, jus in bello ...