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The rapid economic growth in Fairbanks tapered off by the late 1950s, and by the end of 1957 there were about 1,000 vacancies in the Fairbanks area. [2] During the Fairbanks flood of 1967, downtown Fairbanks was flooded and the Polaris Building was evacuated. Water was five feet deep in Second Avenue. [4]
The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War.
They were killed by the guards during August, possibly up to 12 days after the end of the war on 14 August. [10] It has been estimated that in total, approximately 16% of the population of North Borneo were killed during the three years of Japanese occupation. [8] In total, only six Australian servicemen managed to escape. During the second ...
The arts scene in Fairbanks also grew during this time. The Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1959, [162] and the Fairbanks Drama Association was created in 1963. [163] The Alaska Goldpanners baseball team was founded in 1959 as the city's first professional sports team. [164]
Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian chain. It was one of the few U.S. territories, including Guam, the Philippines and the nearby island of Kiska, to be captured during the war. Japanese landed on Attu on June 7, 1942, killing the radio operator. The residents were kept in their homes for three months, then taken to Japan.
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
The Red Lantern, filmed during the 1918 flu pandemic, was the debut of Anna May Wong, who played a lantern bearer. [4] To meet the casting requirements which required 300 extras for the film, the Chinese American extras were paid $7.50 per day ($101.32 in 2015 dollars), which was $1.50 more than the other extras. [4]
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