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Technology played a significant role in World War II.Some of the technologies used during the war were developed during the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. Many were developed in response to needs and lessons learned during the war, and others were beginning to their development as the war ended.
As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823 [94] e. ^ Korean War : Note: [ 20 ] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177. The American Battle Monuments Commission database for the Korean War reports that "The Department of Defense reports that 54,246 American service men and women lost their ...
The Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt in Völkenrode, a top secret German aviation technology facility, with no airfield of its own; Eric "Winkle" Brown (1919-2016), the Royal Navy aviation officer who helped Watson obtain a number of aircraft; Siegfried Knemeyer, a World War II German aviation technology expert who worked for the USAF after the war
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [343] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [344]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Deaths by airstrike during World War II (9 C, 82 P) C. People killed by Chetniks during World War II (8 P)
List of World War II weapons of Romania; List of World War II weapons of Switzerland; List of World War II weapons of the Soviet Union; List of World War II weapons of Thailand; List of World War II weapons of the United Kingdom; List of World War II weapons of the United States; Captured US firearms in Axis use in World War II; List of World ...
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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 .