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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.
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]
The Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAP or Badger) or Badger Ordnance Works (B.O.W.) is an excess, non-BRAC, United States Army facility located near Sauk City, Wisconsin. It manufactured nitrocellulose-based propellants during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. It was a large munitions factory during World War II.
On 23 July 1918, the War Department directed the organization of the 99th Division at Camp Wheeler, Georgia.Plans called for the division to include a headquarters, headquarters troop, the 197th Infantry Brigade (393rd and 394th Infantry Regiments and 371st Machine Gun Battalion), 198th Infantry Brigade (395th and 396th Infantry Regiments and 372nd Machine Gun Battalion), 370th Machine Gun ...
Members of the 551st Parachute Infantry Regiment on patrol in the French Alps during World War II. As a non-divisional unit for the entire war, the Battalion was attached to the provisional 1st Airborne Task Force for the Allied invasion of southern France in August 1944.
The B-29 Superfortress bomber was used in the strategic bombing campaign against Japan. 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 ...
For the invasion of Luzon, U.S. forces needed air bases that were closer to the northern island than Leyte Island.Mindoro was the logical choice. Located not too far south of Luzon, and being about one-half the size of New Jersey, Mindoro is mostly covered by hills and mountains, with a few narrow plains along its seacoasts.
Camp Barkeley was a large United States Army training installation during World War II. The base was located eleven miles (18 km) southwest of Abilene, Texas , near what is now Dyess Air Force Base .