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(The location is now within The Bronx, New York City). Mower Hospital (1865) Satterlee Hospital (1865) ... End of World War II Pacific Theater [10]
Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – December 7, 1941) S-Plan (January 16, 1939 – March, 1940) Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (May 11, 1939 – September 16, 1939) Winter War (November 1939 – March 1940) Franco-Thai War (September 1, 1940 – May 9, 1941) Ecuadorian–Peruvian War (July 5, 1941 – January 31, 1942)
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was founded in 1932 by Herbert Hoover to help with the Great Depression, with the outbreak of World War II, it became a war department. Fund requests usually started with the United States Navy , United States Army , War Shipping Administration , Office of Production Management , the War Production ...
The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) is a memorial and interpretation centre overlooking the city of Lincoln, England, and telling the story of RAF Bomber Command's extensive losses of aircraft and crews during the Bombing of Germany during World War II. It opened to the public at the end of January 2018, with an official ceremony on ...
The Makalapa area, where it stands, was developed to house many thousands of naval personnel en route to assignments in the Pacific War. The Navy's plans included three non-residential buildings: this headquarters building, and two nearby that housed intelligence and communications facilities. [ 4 ]
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 .
P.O. Box 1142 was a secret American military intelligence facility that operated during World War II. [1] The American Military Intelligence Service had two special wings, known as MIS-X and MIS-Y. The MIS-X program focused upon assisting the escape and evasion activities of American Prisoners of War (POWs) held by the Germans in Europe.
PT-109 was an 80-foot (24 m) Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific theater during World War II.