HISTORY BLOG #17 Bombing of Berlin

On Sunday morning, March 18, 1945, under an unusually clear sky, the U.S. Eighth Air Force mounted one of its largest air raids against Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. The target was Berlin, capital of the Nazi regime. More than 1,300 heavy bombers from the Eighth Air Force, escorted by more than 600 fighter planes, departed […]

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HISTORY BLOG #16 First dramatic glimpse of what it meant for the country to be at war

The Battle of Midway and Torpedo Squadron 8 – one of the first time when camera was in the war –   The Battle of Midway On June 4, 1942, the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked United States forces on the island of Midway. With four Japanese aircraft carriers sunk by the conclusion of the conflict, the […]

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