The U.S. Postal Service on June 3 will unveil a postage stamp honoring nisei soldiers from Hawaii and the mainland who served in the U.S. military during World War II. staradvertiser.com/2021/0…
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The Japanese-American soldiers who fought in World War II are being honored with their own stamp from the U.S. Postal Service. It features Big Island-born, Shiroku β€œWhitey” Yamamoto, who was part of the famed 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team. khon2.com/local-news/japa…
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6888th Central Postal Directory Batallion - only all-Black, all-female battalion overseas during World War II. May 1945, France.
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6888th Central Postal Directory Batallion - only all-Black, all-female battalion overseas during World War II. May 1945, France.
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DAE think the United States Postal Service could upgrade their mail trucks from bolted together netal squares that look like World War II era fighter planes to 21st-centuryish vehicles?
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β€˜I’ve never missed a vote’: 95-year-old World War II Veteran says his mail-in ballot application has been denied twice due to new requirements click2houston.com/news/lo…
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β€œThe WAVES were a World War II-era division of the U.S. Navy that consisted entirely of women. The name of this group is an acronym for β€œWomen Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service” [Lots of color photos] howtobearetronaut.com/201…
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Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during the bombing of London, World War II, January 1945 [Colorized by me]
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TIL: The US Postal Service planned a mushroom cloud stamp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, but abandoned the design after protests from Japan. articles.latimes.com/1994…
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TIL that the banana ketchup is made by a filipino war hero Maria Orosa, who invented 700 recipes,one of which were products invention of processing of canned goods for guerillar warfare. These inventions saved thousands of Filipino and American people trapped in japanese world war II intern camps. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar…
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95-year-old World War II Veteran says his mail-in ballot application has been denied twice due to new requirements click2houston.com/news/lo…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/AustinBrit
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SHOES WORN BY ALLIED SPIES during World War II to mislead the Germans and steer them in the opposite direction. *MORE INFO IN COMMENTS*
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I was very disappointed to find that the movie β€œDunkirk” was a World War II movie…

And not the biography of William Shatner

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πŸ‘€︎ u/rgapinski
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In your opinion could the Germans have invaded the United States if they had "won" the European War World War II?

In another sub someone said Americans should thank the USSR for defeating the Germans in WWII, or they may have invaded the U.S.; this led to a debate by a lot of people.

Personally, I find this very hard to believe, but what do you think?

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Why do World War II movies find way more success than WWI?

I really thought this question would be cool to gauge your guys’ thoughts. War films are probably my favourite genre of film right now, but I can’t decide which holistically has better films. But it seems to me that WWII gets all the star power.

World War I had the likes of 1917 and Lawrence of Arabia I guess.

But World War II has Fury, Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, Jojo Rabbit, Hacksaw Ridge, The Imitation Game, Inglorious Basterds and so many more. These are excluding all the films that talk about the Holocaust and resistance because those adds heaps more. Hundreds more.

What’s the reason for the disparity between WWII and WWI films produced?

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18 January 1943 – The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II.
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Army Col. Edward Shames, the last remaining member of World War II's 'Easy Company,' dies at 99 cnn.com/2021/12/04/politi…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/GavinGunhold
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World War II Deaths As A Percentage Of Each Countries Population
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Hockey history lesson. SKA Petersburg outdoor hockey session remembering World War II with these Leningrad jerseys. reddit.com/gallery/sepy4o
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I was studying how World War II started today.

Man, I did Nazi that coming.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/wings31
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TIL During World War II, STEINWAY AND SONS sometimes airdropped pianos onto battlefields for the American troops. steinway.com/news/feature…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/OnlineJethro
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In 2004, WWE originally intended Kenzo Suzuki to play a character named 'Hirohito', grandson of the famous Japanese World War II emperor seeking revenge against the US. youtube.com/watch?v=u-w4H…
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Wernher von Braun, designer of the Saturn V , poses in front of the spacecraft’s engines (1969). Braun was the head of the German rocket industry in World War II. At the end of the war, he was brought to the USA.What do you think about the U.S. using the old nazis?[211x281]
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Woman kneeling next to bed of child, in an underground tunnel during the bombing of London, World War II, January 1945
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TIL: During World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross Medal for extinguishing a bomb by peeing on it. She went on to receive the same medal again for alerting her master to a fire in his shop, saving the customers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jul…
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Camouflage over the Lockheed Aircraft plant in Burbank, CA during World War II, disguising it as sparsely populated rural area.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/GeorgeCubed1999
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TIL Senator from Massachusetts Edward Brooke the first African-American ever to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, spoke personally of his return from World War II and inability to provide a home of his choice for his new family because of his race. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edw…
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The release of the NES is closer to World War II than it is to today

WW II ended Sep 2, 1945, nearly 38 years later the NES was released on July 15, 1983 (Japan release). Feel old yet?

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Unpacking the Mona Lisa at the end of World War II (1945). Photographed by Pierre Jahan. reddit.com/gallery/s9tsaf
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β€˜I’ve never missed a vote’: 95-year-old World War II Veteran says his mail-in ballot application has been denied twice due to new requirements click2houston.com/news/lo…
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Anime Pelicans art by Japanese artist Yakkuro – the USS New Orleans (the World War II cruiser, as personified in Azur Lane) as Brandon Ingram. Part of a series featuring various shipgirls from the franchise (including the mobile game) in NBA uniform.
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The release of the NES is closer to World War II than it is to today /r/gaming/comments/rlqud0…
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The Rat Bomb. An explosive device developed by the British Special Operations Executive Body in World War II for use against Germany. Explosive rats were never used, as the first batch of them was intercepted by the Germans and so German troops knew what to look for.
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Your great-grandchild? Demand German land! Our right and our salvation (Dutch, after World War II)
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πŸ“…︎ Jan 10 2022
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Two engined, six wheel steering, massive truck was envisioned to replace semi-trucks after World War II
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Ah yes. A band that has made six songs about the Nazis is Fascist. Six. Out of 33 songs on World War II. And 146 songs total, soon to be 156. And has stated that they are a non-partisan group and only wanna tell interesting stories. Gimme a break. (I ain't saying anything about the fanbase, though.)
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Resource Request : What resources exist describing the scope and outcomes of these Soviet economic experiments that occurred after World War II but before 1985?

In his 2021 book "Collapse: the Fall of The Soviet Union" Yale historian Vladislav Zubok describes, among other things, the failed Soviet efforts at economic reforms. In the "Misguided Reforms" sections which begins at the end of page 27, Zubok states (emphasis my own):

>In early 1987, Gorbachev urged Rhyzkhov and his economists to produce a radical comprehensive reform of the Soviet economy. The key reform was Law on Socialist Enterprises. This document was the consummate product of the reformist cohort of Soviet economists, who sought to combine "socialism" with a state-regulated market...Gorbachev admitted that the passivity of people bothered him. Nobody could explain to him why, in those segments of the Soviet economy where self-financing and self-governance had been experimentally tried, production declined rather than increased.

What resources, if any, describe the scope and outcomes of these Soviet economic experiments?

I'm hoping for something layperson-friendly that covers [part of] the era after World War 2 but before Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985.

Thanks to moderator u/canekicker for helping me out with my first post like this.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Head-Mastodon
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TIL that actor Humphrey Bogart was a veteran of World War I, serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Leviathan. Too old to reenlist in the Navy during World War II, he volunteered for the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/OttoPike
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With coronavirus untamed, Russia suffers deadliest September since World War II scmp.com/news/world/russi…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Sweep145
πŸ“…︎ Oct 29 2021
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William Patrick Hitler, nephew of Adolf Hitler, in his uniform as a member of the US Navy during World War II.
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