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The world record white-tailed deer was stuck under the fence to the Ravenna Arsenal in 1940. The site can be seen in Marvel's 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The Ravenna Arsenal is mentioned in author John Birmingham's novel "World War 3.1," part of his Axis of Time series of science fiction novels.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Ohio for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC). However the other USAAF support commands (Air Technical Service ...
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
Ohio Camp Millard; Erie Proving Ground; Fort Hayes; Oklahoma Fort Arbuckle (1832-1834, Tulsa County) Fort Arbuckle (1852-1870, Garvin County) Camp Nichols; Fort Arbuckle; Fort Cobb; Fort Davis; Fort Gibson; Fort McCulloch; Fort Reno; Fort Supply; Fort Towson; Fort Washita; Fort Wayne; Oregon Camp Abbott; Camp Adair; Camp Sherman; Fort Stevens ...
Map of former Scioto Ordnance Plant Scioto Ordnance Plant property line on 1973 air photo. The Scioto Ordnance Plant (SOP) was a munitions and incendiary bomb-making facility built in Marion County, Ohio, by the United States Army in 1942, and operated under lease by United States Rubber Company – most recently known as Uniroyal. The plant ...
Naval Air Station Astoria, Oregon; Naval Air Station Banana River, Florida; Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine; Naval Air Station Bunker Hill, Indiana; Naval Air Station Cape May, New Jersey
Vance u0022Redu0022 Hill, shown in 2020 at age 102, served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was part of D-Day. Vance "Red" Hill, now 106, didn't have to fight for his country in World War II.
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war .