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  • Soldiers of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion work on the moorings of a barrage balloon on the coast of Normandy after D-Day. The balloons were made of two-ply cotton fabric impregnated with vulcanized or synthetic rubber, then coated with aluminum. Typically, the balloons were raised in the evening after Allied aircraft had returned to bases in England.

    European Theater

    African American D-Day Heroes
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  • A young George Washington, mounted at right, accompanied his Virginia militia onto the field at Great Meadows, exposing everyone to the French and Indians concealed in the woods. From the Robert Griffing mural, A Charming Field for an Encounter.

    Military History

    Fort Necessity: George Washington’s First Defeat
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  • European Theater

    Tyler Perry’s new film, The Six Triple Eight, is based on a WWII History magazine article
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  • siege of Leningrad

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    Savage Struggle for Leningrad
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