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The Battle of Hill (Height) 731 (Greek: Μάχη του υψώματος 731), was a fierce battle fought during World War II in southern Albania, part of the Greco-Italian War. It began in the early morning of 9 March 1941, when Fascist Italy launched an assault ( Operation Primavera ) against Greece , aimed at capturing the critical mountain ...
William Henry Mauldin (/ ˈ m ɔː l d ən /; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers ...
The character resembles Alice the Goon, a character in Popeye who first appeared in 1933, [23] and another name for Chad was "The Goon". [ 21 ] A spokesman for the Royal Air Force Museum London suggested in 1977 that Chad was probably an adaptation of the Greek letter omega , used as the symbol for electrical resistance; his creator was ...
Unit 731 (Japanese: 731部隊, Hepburn: Nana-san-ichi Butai), [note 1] short for Manchu Detachment 731 and also known as the Kamo Detachment [3]: 198 and the Ishii Unit, [5] was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons manufacturing during the Second Sino-Japanese War ...
Images of Disney characters (3 C, 69 F) Disney comics images (1 C, 23 F) Dynamite Entertainment images (7 F) E. ... Media in category "Images of cartoon characters"
Battle of Hill 731; Battle of Himara; I. Italian spring offensive; Italian second spring offensive (1941) K. Capture of Klisura Pass; Battle of Korytsa; M. Battle of ...
The character has earned a legacy as a clichéd phrase – very reactionary opinions are characterised as "Colonel Blimp" statements. [6]George Orwell and Tom Wintringham made especially extensive use of the term "Blimps" to refer to this type of military officer, Orwell in his articles [7] and Wintringham in his books How to Reform the Army and People's War.
The film contains a reference to World War II, when the hunter threatens to Blitzkrieg Bugs. [8]The hunter is identified in his model sheet as "Tex's Coon". [9] The hunter fills the role usually associated with Elmer Fudd; this was one of four Bugs Bunny short films of 1941 that have him facing a different hunter each time (the others were Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, in which Bugs faced an Indian ...