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AUGUST 15, 1945: V-J DAY
August 15th, 2010 | 2:19 pm
President Truman informs reporters of Japan’s surrender at a pres conference in the Oval Office. August 14, 1945. (photo courtesy of Times Life) Japan acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration calling for their unconditional surrender on August 15, 1945 (August 14 in the United States) marked the end of World War II, three years, eight months, [...]
VJ DAY
August 14th, 2010 | 10:16 am
Waterloo Daily Courier, August 14, 1945. (Photo Courtesy of Robert M. Edsel Collection.) Sixty-five years ago this was but one of the newspaper headlines as the world awoke to read about the end of World War II. Victory in Japan, “V-J” Day, August 15, 1945. Japan’s acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration calling for its unconditional [...]
“HIS ENTIRE LIFE WAS DEDICATED TO PUBLIC SERVICE”: SENATOR TED STEVENS (1923 – 2010)
August 11th, 2010 | 5:17 pm
Ted Stevens, who served as a United States Senator representing Alaska for more than 40 years, was killed in a plane crash yesterday. He was the longest serving Republican senator in history. This was, however, only his most recent service to a nation he loved which included senior positions in the Eisenhower Administration, a key [...]
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The Monuments Men were a group of men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered had expertise as museum directors, curators, art scholars and educators, artists, architects, and archivists. The Monuments Men job description was simple: to save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat.
These men not only had the vision to understand the grave threat to the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of civilization, but then joined the front lines to do something about it.
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