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•May 16, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
B-29s built in Georgia helped the United States win the war with Japan. More »
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a career politician who became the 32nd president of the United States in 1932. The only man to be elected president for four consecutive terms, Roosevelt held the office through much of the Great Depression and World War II. His overt and covert assistance to Great Britain, through programs such as Lend-Lease, kept the island nation fighting against Nazi Germany during a crucial period from 1939 to 1941. Following the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan. Germany declared war on the United States four days later. Afflicted by polio during the 1920s, Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down for the remainder of his life. He died in office on April 12, 1945, at the age of 63 and was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman.
•May 16, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
B-29s built in Georgia helped the United States win the war with Japan. More »
•January 15, 2018 • Be the First to Comment
The frequent bombing of the beautiful medieval city of Rouen, France, caused widespread death and destruction and resentment to the Allies. More »
•December 7, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
Was Franklin Roosevelt planning to intervene on Great Britain’s behalf before Pearl Harbor? Winston Churchill, for one, thought so. More »
•October 25, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
The 1940 exodus from Paris as the German Army approached choked the roads from the city with refugee traffic. More »
•October 16, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
Early in the North African campaign, American tankers battled the Vichy French. More »
•September 19, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
Albert W. Boam, a former B-24 navigator, recalls his training, bombing the Reich, getting shot down, and surviving months in a German POW camp. More »
•June 6, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
For decades historians have wrestled with the idea that the Allies might have mounted a successful invasion of Western Europe in 1943. More »
•April 18, 2017 • Be the First to Comment
Through clever visual trickery, vital West Coast warplane plants were made invisible to prying enemy aerial eyes. More »
•April 7, 2017 • 1 Comment
South America’s only force to fight in World War II contributed to the Allied victory in Italy. More »
•March 15, 2017 • Read Comments (4)
Forget Eisenhower, forget Patton. The man most responsible for the Allies’ victory was a quiet, desk-bound warrior. More »
