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A Tribute to
Farragut Naval Training Station
1942 - 1946 - Bayview, Idaho, United States
Nearly 300,000 sailors learned to be sailors on a lake in northern Idaho, three hundred miles from the nearest ocean. In March 1942 the Nav...
A Tribute to
The Donora Smog of 1948
October 27, 1948 - Donora, Pennsylvania, United States
For five days at the end of October 1948, the air in a mill town in the Monongahela Valley killed twenty people, and the football game went ...
A Tribute to
The Ghost Army
1944 - 1945 - Pine Camp, New York, United States
The Army recruited them out of art schools and advertising agencies, gave them inflatable tanks and a set of gramophone records, and sent th...
A Tribute to
The Little Church of the West
1942 - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
The oldest building on the Las Vegas Strip is a wedding chapel, and it has been picked up and moved three times to get out of the way of eve...
A Tribute to
The Navajo Code Talkers
May 4, 1942 - 1945 - Fort Wingate, New Mexico, United States
The government had spent forty years punishing Navajo children for speaking Navajo. Then it asked them to win a war with it. Philip Johnsto...
A Tribute to
The Winecoff Hotel Fire
December 7, 1946 - Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The hotel stationery said absolutely fireproof. It meant the building would survive. Nobody had promised anything about the people inside it...
A Tribute to
USS Mason (DE-529)
March 20, 1944 - October 12, 1945 - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
A destroyer escort, commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on March 20, 1944, with a crew of about two hundred and four men — roughly a hundre...

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