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...ved as a commissioned ship for 11 years, receiving nine battle stars for [[World War II]] service.

...men that operated in Burma, in the [[China-Burma-India theater]] (CBI) of World War II in 1944. Although much glamorized in the media, it was destroyed in the pro

...as a commissioned ship for 15 months, receiving one [[battle star]] for [[World War II]] service.

...prime of Williams’s career was interrupted by stints as a fighter pilot in World War II (Naval Air Corps, 1942-45) and the Korean War (Third Marine Air Wing, 1952-

...-scale operations. ''Mount McKinley'' received four [[battle star]]s for [[World War II]] service and eight stars for [[Korean War|Korean]] service.

...n (naval)|Captain]], [[United States Navy]] (retired), was an aviator, a [[World War II]] flying ace, and founder of the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the ...ht school when the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] launched its [[Pearl Harbor (World War II)|attack on Pearl Harbor]]. He received his commission, was promoted to the

...ssioned ship for 5 years and 4 months, earning five battle stars for her [[World War II]] service. ...hich United States forces would take the offensive for the first time in [[World War II]]. After completing the exercises, she sortied with Task Group (TG) 62.1 fo

The field of cryogenics advanced during World War II when scientists found that metals frozen to low temperatures showed more re

..., and he was screened by [[United States Army|Army]] Intelligence during [[World War II]] to determine his suitability for an officer's commission. They found him

...oned in the Narraganset Bay area. In the years leading up to and during [[World War II]], Rabbi Gutstein, worked tirelessly to bring Jews living in Nazi Germany t

...chniques developed by the [[Canadian Army]] in the [[First World War]]. In World War II night engagements, flash temporarily blinded the ships' crews, as well as ...was placing one of them, Albanite, in large scale production at the end of World War II. It is a triple-base propellant with no nitroglycerin, but 20.0% [[nitroc

...ented and had suffering accordingly during the highly patriotic years of [[World War II]]. Finally deciding to disband, they were in a sense reincarnated as the W

...n the latter books, however, Helm's origins as a youthful man of action in World War II disappeared and he became a somewhat older but apparently ageless character

==World War II== World War II was a watershed for all the Latino groups. Some 500,000 were drafted; even

...esignated (AKA-6) seven months later. She won three battle stars for her [[World War II]] service, and was awarded a [[Presidential Unit Citation (US)|Presidential ...line Islands; [[Guam]], Mariana Islands; and [[Manila]], Philippines. When World War II ended in mid-August, ''Alchiba'' was in port, at Ulithi. unloading cargo. S

...served as a commissioned ship for 18 months, receiving one battle star for World War II service.

...aration of the Battlespace]]. The topic gets into the area, known since [[World War II]], of organizational confusion and bureaucratic fighting over Clandestine H

* Weinberg, Gerhard. ''A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II'', Cambridge University Press, 1994.

...rse, along with the [[B-24]], of America's strategic bombing of Germany in World War II. The Army Air Forces (AAF) considered the B-17 the perfect embodiment of i * Craven, Wesley Frank and J. L. Cate. ''The Army Air Forces in World War II'' (1949): ''v. 1. Plans and early operations, January 1939 to August 1942;

* Leff, Mark H. "The Politics Of Sacrifice On The American Home Front In World War II." ''Journal of American History'' 1991 77(4): 1296-1318. [http://links.jsto