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The history of Colombia during World War II began in 1939. Although geographically distant from the main theaters of war, Colombia played an important role in World War II because of its strategic location near the Panama Canal , and its access to both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans .
Ecuadorian–Colombian War (1862–1863) Colombia: Ecuador: Victory: Colombian Civil War of 1876 (1876–1877) Colombia. Colombian Liberal Party; Colombian Conservative Party: Victory: Colombian Civil War (1884–1885) (1884-1885) Colombia: Radical liberals: Victory. New constitution in 1886, Colombia becomes a unitary republic; Panama Crisis ...
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war. The plaques (which could be described as large plaquettes) about 120 mm (4.7 in) in diameter, were cast in bronze, and came to be known as the Dead Man's Penny or Widow's Penny because of ...
The Oxford Companion to World War II (2005), comprehensive encyclopedia for all countries; Eccles, Karen E. and Debbie McCollin, eds. World War II and the Caribbean (2017) excerpt; Frank, Gary. Struggle for hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War (Routledge, 2021). Friedman, Max Paul.
The battalion was the only South American army to join the Korean war; the Americans wanted Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil to collaborate and contribute a regiment, but they all declined to fight except for Colombia. Most of the equipment in the battalion was WW2 American weapons such as the M2 carbine and 1911.
On May 23, 2013, Senator Rob Portman introduced the World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113–123 (text)), which would direct the Secretary of the Interior to install at the World War II memorial a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944 ...
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Medjez-El-Bab Memorial; Memorial against war and fascism; Memorial Complex of Participants of the Great Patriotic War (Shusha) Memorial for the victims of a free Austria 1934–1945; Memorial Hall of the Chinese Expeditionary Force; Memorial Park, Port of Spain; Monument of Lihula; Monument to Richard Sorge; Monument to the Dead of World War II