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Congressional Medal of Honors
Medal of Honor is the United States highest military honor. Awarded for personal acts in military service beyond the call of duty. -
Douglas MacArthur
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George Marshall
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Chester W. Nimitz
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George S. Patton
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Omar Bradley
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Navajo Code Talkers
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Concentration Camps
Camps to keep Jewish people imprisoned. -
Conventional Weapons
Conventional weapons include small arms and light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as (non-nuclear) bombs, shells, rockets, missiles and cluster munitions. -
Merchant Marines
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Multiple Front War
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Holocaust
Mass murdering of about 6 million Jews. -
Flying Tigers
First American volunteer group composed of pilots from the United States Army. -
Bataan Death March
challenging march through the high desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range, conducted in honor of the heroic service members who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II, sacrificing their freedom, health and, in many cases, their very lives -
Battle of Midway
Most important naval battele of WWII -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II -
Island Hopping
series of battles taking one island and then moving to the next after establishing a base on the previous island. -
D Day Invasion
term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. -
Operation Overlord
code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German -
Potsdam Conference
held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945. (In some older documents it is also referred to as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the USSR, USA and UK -
Atomic Weapons
Explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions,