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Congressional Medal of Honor
The highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action above and beyond the call of duty. -
Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. -
George Marshall
American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. -
Chester W. Nimitz
With the rank of Admiral, and Fleet Admiral after December 1944, he commanded American forces during their long advance across the Pacific to full victory in August 1945. -
George S. Patton
George Smith Patton, Jr. was a general in the United States Army most well known for his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theatre in World War II. -
Dwight Eisenhower
34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. -
Omar Bradley
A senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army. -
Concentration Camps
Sites of internment during the Holocaust which were liberated by American forces. -
Liberty Ships
Technology used by the Merchant Marines to contribute to the victory in WWII. -
Multiple Front War
Dividing military forces in order to fight on land in Europe and sea/land in the pacific. -
Navajo Code Talkers
Group that used the pratice of encryption to convert communication into an unkown language so that it is unable to be decoded by the enemy. -
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Merchant Marines
Fleet of civilian-owned merchant vessels that utilized the liberty cargo ships. -
Bataan Death March
The American and Filipino forces fought from an untenable position until formally surrendering to the Japanese on April 9. The Japanese immediately began to march some 76,000 prisoners (12,000 Americans, the remainder Filipinos) northward into captivity along a route of death. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Popular name for the first cadre of African-American pilots in the US military. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway, fought over and near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll, represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive. -
D-Day Invasion
The epic scope of this decisive battle that foreshadowed the end of Hitlers dream of Nazi domination. Overlord was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken before or since June 6, 1944. The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code-name given to the Allied invasion of France scheduled for June 1944. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
Potsdam Conference
On 16 July 1945, the "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin. In this, the last of the World War II heads of state conferences, President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime Ministers Churchill and Atlee discussed post-war arrangements in Europe, frequently without agreement. -
Atomic Weapons
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. The first atomic bombs were dropped by the US. -
Conventional Weapons
The terms conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refers to weapons that are in relatively wide use and that are not weapons. -
Flying Tigers
Former pilots of the U.S. armed services who volunteered to fly with the Chinese Air force to defend against Japanese aggression. -
Island Hopping
Island hopping was the American strategy in the Pacific during World War II. It involved a leapfrogging movement of American forces from one strategic island to the next until American forces were in control of the Pacific and prepared to invade Japan.
