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  • Broken swastika; the defeat of the Luftwaffe. Translated by Frederick Holt

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    1960
    [1960, c1949]
  • U.S. Army uniforms of World War II / Shelby Stanton

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    1991
    C1991
    20th century
  • The hardest victory : RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War / Denis Richards

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    1994
  • Counting the days : POWs, internees, and stragglers of World War II in the Pacific / by Craig B. Smith

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    2012
  • A letter from Japan : the photographs of John Swope / Carolyn Peter ; with an essay by John W. Dower and a letter by John Swope

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    2006
    Allied occupation, 1945-1952
  • War Memorial, (sculpture)

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    Cast ca. 1919 or 1920
  • Wartime kiss : visions of the moment in the 1940s / Alexander Nemerov

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    2013
  • Target island, a novel by John Brophy

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    1944
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    1943 00 00 / 1943 00 00, 1973 00 00 / 1973 00 00
  • World War II Memorial, (sculpture)

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    Dedicated May 31, 1947

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