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Country Title Director Events depicted View online United Kingdom Local Boy Makes Good: A Story With a Moral [2]: Cartoon in which an RAF bomber is able to shoot down German fighters once the pilot and turret gunner put on their respirators.
Snow Treasure is a children's novel by Marie McSwigan. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway during World War II, it recounts the story of several Norwegian children who use sleds to smuggle their country's gold bullion past German guards to a waiting ship, the Cleng Peerson.
Bugs Bunny Bond Rally is a classic cartoon depicting Bugs Bunny singing and dancing about war bonds. The film was given to Henry Morgenthau of the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday, December 15, 1941. [2] It was during such World War II films that Bugs achieved his popularity and made him a national mascot. [3]
The company told CNN that the bombs date from World War II. According to the parish council, all of the bombs need to be found and removed before the park can be reopened. It said 174 devices had ...
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 .
Bombings of Switzerland in World War II: Allied aircraft accidentally bombed Basel and Zürich. [7] German submarine U-3508 was bombed and sunk at Wilhelmshaven in an Allied air raid. Born: Dieter Meier, musician and conceptual artist, in Zürich, Switzerland; Tommy Svensson, footballer and manager, in Växjö, Sweden
Timeline of declarations of war during World War II; Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1918–1941) Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities ...
The American Schools at War program was a program during World War II run by the U.S. Treasury Department, in which schoolchildren set goals to sell stamps and bonds to help the war effort. The program was also administered by the U.S. Office of Education , the Federal government agency that interfaced with the nation's school systems and its ...