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  2. Defense Plant Corporation - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Motor Transport Corps - Wikipedia

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    They were to be located 30 miles (48 km) behind the fighting zone (40 miles if behind a "thinly held sector"). ... The American Field Service Archives of World War I ...

  4. List of military museums - Wikipedia

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    A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.

  5. Ionic polymer–metal composites - Wikipedia

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    IPMC actuation, energy harvesting and sensing principles. When a voltage (electric field) is applied to the electrodes, positively charged conjugated and hydrated cations in the membrane molecular network are repulsed by the anode and migrate towards the negative electrode or the cathode carrying the hydrated water molecules with them.

  6. Private military company - Wikipedia

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    David Stirling, founder of the SAS, founded a PMC in the 1960s.. Modern PMCs trace their origins back to a group of ex-SAS veterans in 1965 who, under the leadership of the founder of the SAS, David Stirling and John Woodhouse, founded WatchGuard International (formerly with offices in Sloane Street before moving to South Audley Street in Mayfair) as a private company that could be contracted ...

  7. Main Navy and Munitions Buildings - Wikipedia

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    The Munitions Building, constructed in 1918, contained 841,000 square feet (78,100 m 2) of space across three stories and was designed to provide temporary accommodations for 9,000 Department of War employees. [6] During World War I, the War Department had greatly expanded, and by the end of the war, the Main Navy and Munitions Building ...

  8. I Corps (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Following the American declaration of war on Germany, on 6 April 1917, the I Corps was organized and activated on 15–20 January 1918, in the National Army in Neufchâteau, France, the first of several corps-sized formations intended to command divisions of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I. [2] Assisted by the French XXXII Corps, the headquarters was organized ...

  9. 95th Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, the division spent another brief period in reserve before being activated as one of the Army's training divisions. The 95th Infantry Division (United States) was recognized as a liberating unit by the United States Army Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.