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  2. Colombia during World War II - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific - Wikipedia

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    In 1964, the American Battle Monuments Commission erected the Honolulu Memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery "to honor the sacrifices and achievements of American Armed Forces in the Pacific during World War II and in the Korean War". The memorial was later expanded in 1980 to include the Vietnam War.

  4. Colombian Battalion - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Pearl Harbor National Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor.. Pearl Harbor National Memorial is a unit of the National Park System of the United States on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act removed the site from the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument on March 12, 2019, and made it a separate national memorial. [1]

  6. List of wars involving Colombia - Wikipedia

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    Formation of the United States of Colombia; 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 ...

  7. 299th Cavalry Regiment (United States) - Wikipedia

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    [3]: 212 These Hawaii Nisei (Japanese-Americans) would form the famed 100th Infantry Battalion later attached to the 442nd RCT and would fight heroically in Europe becoming the most decorated unit of its size in World War II. However the Nisei soldiers were nearly 40% of the 299th ranks, and the removal of these men put the regiment grossly ...

  8. Latin America during World War II - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of conflicts in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    World War I (1914–1918) 8 German ships sought refuge in Honolulu Harbor; some were captured. Hanapepe massacre (1924) Police forcibly put down a strike by sugarcane plantation workers, leading to 16 picketers shot and killed. Hilo Massacre (1938) Striking stevedores stormed a police boundary leading to 50 wounded picketers. World War II (1939 ...