One of the last links to World War II-era popular culture has passed.
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On January 25, 1941, A. Philip Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the most important civil rights leader of the World War II era, called for.
This week's Diplomat column takes a look at COIN in the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the Murray-Mansoor edited volume Hybrid Warfare: Yamaguchi suggests that elements of the Japanese Army.
Wow. One of the most bizarre episodes in the entire occupation of Japan took place less than two months later, on January 1, 1946, in Nagasaki. Back in the States, the Rose Bowl and other major college football bowl games, with the Great War over,...
On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World.
The central events of the Battle of Midway happened seventy years ago today. A useful timeline: 7:52am (2:52pm EST): Enterprise and Hornet complete launching of torpedo and dive bomber strike.
From the 1942 International Woodworkers of America District 9 Yearbook: "Because the government has rationed the crown caps used on beer bottles and soft drinks, the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company is urging the use of Rainier Jumbo Bottles. These bottles which hold approximately the...
This story on dogs in the military reminded me of the odd memorial at the University of Tennessee for the dogs killed in the battle to liberate Guam in 1944.
I'm not sure a RIP is exactly in order here, but let it be known that John Demjanjuk, one of the last (possible?) links to Nazism and the Holocaust is.
For those who believe that science is apolitical, allow me to present Exhibit A: rare photographs from Hiroshima. I'm not saying the relationship between politics and science is inherently good or bad. But it is and scientists need to accept and act upon this fact.
Excellent article on the development of Japanese carrier aviation in the months before Pearl Harbor: The picture that emerges is of an enemy carrier force whose capabilities in late 1941.
Although I don't identify as a historian of technology per se, I have presented at the Society for the History of Technology before. And the technologies I deal with in.