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The project was created to act as a point of "recognition, remembrance and reconciliation for Bomber Command". [1]IBCC aims to tell the personal stories of service men and women of RAF Bomber Command, ground crews and civilians affected by the bombing campaigns on both sides of the conflict during the Second World War and beyond to the Cold War era.
The Port Moresby Airfield Complex was a World War II military airfield complex, built near Port Moresby in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. It was used during the Battle of New Guinea as a base of Allied air operations primarily in 1942 and early 1943. It later became a support base as the battle moved to the north and western part of New ...
(The location is now within The Bronx, New York City). Mower Hospital (1865) Satterlee Hospital (1865) ... End of World War II Pacific Theater [10]
To win World War II the United States and its Allied Nations needed massive war production. Many private companies did not have the capital funds to meet the wartime demand for buildings and equipment. Defense Plant Corporation provided financial support to state and local governments. [1]
P.O. Box 1142 was a secret American military intelligence facility that operated during World War II. [1] The American Military Intelligence Service had two special wings, known as MIS-X and MIS-Y. The MIS-X program focused upon assisting the escape and evasion activities of American Prisoners of War (POWs) held by the Germans in Europe.
The Makalapa area, where it stands, was developed to house many thousands of naval personnel en route to assignments in the Pacific War. The Navy's plans included three non-residential buildings: this headquarters building, and two nearby that housed intelligence and communications facilities. [ 4 ]
It was the largest American aircraft to see service in World War II. Each B-29 Superfortress used four of the massive Wright R-3350 - Cyclone 18-cylinder 2,200 horsepower (1,600 kW) engines built at the Dodge Chicago Plant. There were nearly 4000 of these aircraft produced when the B-29 was retired from service in the 1960s.
The 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (551st PIB) was, for many years, a little-recognized airborne forces unit of the United States Army, raised during World War II, that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Originally commissioned to take the French Caribbean island of Martinique, they were shipped instead to Western Europe. With an initial ...