wwii
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This Deleted Scene From The Godfather Reveals A Strange Fact About WWII-Era Cars In America
A while back I encountered a clip of a deleted scene from The Godfather that caught my attention because of what was being discussed. Sure, there was plenty of mob stuff being talked about, but I was interested in one detail: a new car that came with wooden bumpers. I was confused, but interested, and…
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YouTube Banned An Anti-Nazi Documentary From 1938 For Violating Hate Speech Policy
Inside Nazi Germany is one of the most important anti-Nazi documentaries in history. First released on 20 January 1938, the 15-minute movie became one of the first explicitly anti-Nazi newsreels to play in US cinemas and provided an early glimpse into the Nazi atrocities that would only become fully known to Americans years later. The…
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Time To Pay Your Respects To The Plywood Boat That Helped Win WWII
As you likely know, it’s the 75th anniversary of D-Day, when 160,000 Allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy, undertaking the largest from-the-sea invasion in the history of human warfare and marking the beginning of the end for the Axis. The actual business of getting over 100,000 soldiers and a metric crapton of vehicles and…
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WWII-Era Time Capsule Found In Cleveland Home, And The Contractor Wants Internet Sleuths’ Help
Do you know WWII veteran Richard Silagy or his family? Silagy lived in Cleveland, Ohio, sometime after World War II and hid a time capsule filled with personal items in his home. The time capsule was recently discovered by a housing contractor doing improvements on the house, but a search online for Silagy or any…