The POW Experience of Roy Bodine
In 1942, US Army dental officer, Roy L. Bodine, became a POW when Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. He spent 41 months as a POW - surviving the Bataan Death March, POW camps, Hell Ships, and labor ...
3 Aug 202334min
The Casablanca Conference
Throughout World War II, Allied leaders met in a series of conferences to discuss and decide joint military and political goals. The Casablanca Conference, held in Casablanca, French Morocco, from Jan...
21 Jul 202318min
POWs in the Philippines: Health and Medical Access
When the Philippines fell to the Japanese in the spring of 1942, tens of thousands of American and Filipino troops became POWs. Approximately 1 in 3 (possibly more) of the Americans did not survive ca...
7 Jul 202320min
D-Day
On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy began. D-Day, as the first phase of this invasion has come to be known, was a critical moment in the liberation of Europe. It did not mark the end of t...
1 Jun 202322min
NAS Wildwood and World War II
Between 1943-1945, the US Navy operated Naval Air Station Wildwood in Cape May, NJ as a training center for dive bomber squadrons. Thousands of pilots were trained there and during the peak training m...
2 Mai 202325min
The Media Offensive: How the Allied Press and Public Opinion Shaped Allied Strategy during World War II
World War II was a total war. That required it to also be a media war. Media coverage mattered. The opinions and impressions of citizens on the home front and of citizen soldiers on battlefield had to...
6 Apr 202331min
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line
The Greatest Generation has many female heroines – women and girls who stepped out of line to serve their countries and their communities in the darkest days of World War II. Many of them remain rela...
7 Mar 202319min
Aguinaldo's 1899 Declaration of Independence
During the Spanish American War (1898), Philippine Revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo declared the Philippines independent of Spain. After Spain’s defeat, the Filipinos expected independence. Inste...
27 Feb 202316min
