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Delivering Flames and Fear
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Dispatches, March 2009
• The Warsaw ghetto, the cramped home of a half-million Jews during World War […]
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Russia and Japan Set to Sign Treaty Ending World War II
More than 60 years after World War II ended, Russia and Japan have restarted negotiations over a still-unsigned peace treaty that would finally bring a formal end to the war between the two countries.
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Veteran of Countless Small Skirmishes Turns 45
GI Joe is celebrating 45 uninterrupted years on the market this February. While the toy evolved to reflect different eras—Joe was an adventurer in the 1970s, fighting crocodiles and sharks, and in the 1990s, equipped to nip the terrorist threat in the bud—it never strayed far from its basic mission.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Showing visitors around the worn teak deck of the retired battleship USS Missouri, tour […]
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Warsaw, Poland
Conventional wisdom says that Warsaw was reduced to a pile of rubble during World War II. Only a few fragments of Warsaw’s brutal past remain, and they can be difficult to find: resistance battles and relentless Nazi bombing destroyed 85 percent of the city’s buildings, and most of what you see now has been either reconstructed or completely rebuilt. But a few remnants of the past exist at Pawiak Prison, Old Town, and Treblinka.
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Wendover Field, Utah
When Col. Paul Tibbets flew over Wendover Field in September 1944 in search of a remote, secure place where he could train the B-29 crews he handpicked to drop the atomic bomb, he looked down from 30,000 feet and declared it “perfect.” Sixty-four years later, the desert—and Wendover—is as stark as ever. Several bizarrely glitzy high-rise casinos have arisen on the Nevada side of town in the last couple of decades, but the sense of isolation and remoteness still dominates. That isolation has a silver lining: today Wendover Field is the best-preserved bomber training base from World War II.
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Oradour-sur-Glane, France
France is a pretty country full of pretty little villages. But Oradour-sur-Glane is not […]