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medal of honor: the highest u.s. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action "above and beyond the call of duty".
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united states general who served as chief of staff and commanded allied forces in the south pacific during world war ll
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united stated general and statesman who as secretary of state organized the european recovery program
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united states admiral of the pacific fleet during world war 11 who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy
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us general, who successfully developed tank warfare as an extension of cavalry tactics in world war ll: captured palermo, sicily (1942) and much of france (1944)
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united states general who supervised the invasion of normandy and the defeat of nazi germany; 34th president of united states.
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- united states general who played an important role in the allied victory in world war ll
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a weapon which is neither nuclear, biological, nor chemical.
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a groupe of african-american pilots who fought in world war ; they formed the 332nd freighter group and the 477th bombardment group of the united states army air corps(army air forces after june 20th 1941)
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a guarded prison camp in which non military prisoners are held, esp one of those in Nazi germany in which millions were exterminated.
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the nickname of u.s fighter pilots, the american volunteer group (AVG), who fought against the japanese in china during world war ll.
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a slow cargo ship built during world war ll.
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they fought at different places at the same time.
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a march of 75,000 american and filipino prisoners of war after the battle of bataan in 1942..the march characterized by the murder and physical abuse the prisoners went though, over 6-11,000 men died during the march.
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naval battle of world war ll (june); american planes based on land on carriers decisively defeated a japanese fleet on its way to invade the midway islands.
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the american strategy in the pacific during world war ll. 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.
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the crew of a merchant vessel
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servret agent who was one of the navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language: the code was unbroken by the jappanese during world war ll.
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the allied forces invaded france during world war ll.
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was the code name for the battle of normandy the operation that launched the invasion of germane-occupied western europe by allied forces.
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nuclear weapon: of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction.
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a conference held in potsdam in the summer of 1945 where roosevelt stalin, and churchill drew up plans for the administration of germany and poland after world war ll ended.
