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Portable Surgical Hospitals Were Among the Most Important Medical Advancements of World War II

War History Online 21 Jul 2023
The Second World War brought about devastation and human suffering on a global scale ... However, it was during World War II that the idea evolved significantly, owing to advancements in medical technology and logistical expertise.
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A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed during World War II is returning to his family

Asahi News 21 Jul 2023
A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family ... The signatures match those in a family photo of Mutsuda holding the flag and surrounded by family members before he left for war, Ziak said.
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A flag carried by a Japanese soldier who was killed during World War II is ...

McAlester News-Capital 21 Jul 2023
A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family ... The signatures match those in a family photo of Mutsuda holding the flag and surrounded by family members before he left for war, Ziak said.
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OBITUARY: Titusville Resident Clarence Bauer, FBI’s Last Surviving Foreign Spy of World War II, Dies ...

Space Coast Daily 21 Jul 2023
Clarence Bauer of Titusville, the last surviving member of America’s secret World War II spy organization, the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), passed away on Thursday ... secret World War II spy organization, the Special Intelligence Service (SIS), passed away on Thursday.
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Today in History: July 21, American forces landed on Guam during World War II

Lima Ohio 21 Jul 2023
In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later ... In 2008, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces.
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Snoopy and the Red Baron wag memories and imaginations in Wolfeboro

Union Leader 21 Jul 2023
9 at the Wright Museum of World War II ... 9, the Wright Museum of World War II in Wolfeboro is hosting “Snoopy and the Red Baron,” a special exhibit celebrating one of America’s most-loved cartoonists, Charles Schulz, and his iconic character, Snoopy ... Army in Europe in World War II.
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'Oppenheimer' a warning to world on AI, says director Nolan

Manila Bulletin 21 Jul 2023
The British-born maker of "Memento", "Dunkirk" and the "Batman" trilogy said he believes a lot of the anguish around technology "in our imagination stems from (Robert) Oppenheimer," the physicist who helped invent nuclear weapons during World War II ... "They had lived through World War I and they were trying to end World War II," he said.
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Korea wants ‘crash landing’ not war

Financial Express 21 Jul 2023
Ever since the Korean War (1950-53), one of the bloodiest wars post World War II, the US has stationed its forces in Seoul to protect South Korea from the ‘invading’ North Korea ... Ever since the Korean War (1950-53), one of the bloodiest wars post World War II, the US has stationed ...
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Bawaal review: Hitler saves a toxic marriage in the most insensitive film of the year, ...

Hindustan Times 21 Jul 2023
Here's a mainstream Bollywood romance purposefully contextualising the unimaginable horrors of the World War II and the Holocaust to fit into the narrative of a failing marriage ... It is then that he hatches a totally baffling plan to travel to locations in Europe, which were affected by the World War II, and teach his students about the tragedy.
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Today in History: July 21, guilty verdict in Scopes "Monkey Trial"

Finger Lakes Times 21 Jul 2023
In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later ... In 2008, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (RA’-doh-van KA’-ra-jich), one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces.
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‘Oppenheimer’: Explosive remorse

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 21 Jul 2023
Robert Oppenheimer, the man who gave the world the atomic bomb and ended World War II on a morose note ... The story of "Oppenheimer" is one of scientific might, the uncontrollable urge to explore no matter the consequences because evil people (from the Allied perspective) were racing to do the same thing, both during, and after World War II.
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Today in History — July 21

Napa Valley Register 21 Jul 2023
In 1944, American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later.
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'Inevitable disaster,' advice on trash, being ignored

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 21 Jul 2023
Prolonged Ukraine war will lead to ‘inevitable disaster’ ... Our continued use of depleted uranium and cluster bombs is not a good example for the world ... After we used up our high explosive bombs on Germany, we used napalm on the Japanese in World War II ... War in Ukraine is the result ...
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Marga Minco, Holocaust writer of understated power, dies at 103

Union Leader 21 Jul 2023
It is a momentary idyll, the only idyll Jews in the Netherlands could allow themselves in the Nazi occupation during World War II ... Minco the “Dutch voice” in the canon of European literature that emerged from World War II, Mai Spijkers, the owner and director of Prometheus Books, the publisher of her later works, said in an interview.

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