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In January 1941 the U.S. War Department issued orders to consider potential sites for a new U.S. Army training center in Indiana.After the Hurd Engineering Company surveyed an estimated 50,000 acres (200 km 2), an area was selected for the camp in south-central Indiana, approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Indianapolis, 12 miles (19 km) north of Columbus, and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Edinburgh.
German students reading newspapers in the Nazi academy in Rügen in 1943. Dietrich Schulz, Author providedIn the summer of 1935, the Nazi government hijacked a student exchange program between ...
The Indiana World War Memorial Plaza is an urban feature and war memorial located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, originally built to honor the veterans of World War I. [3] It was conceived in 1919 as a location for the national headquarters of the American Legion and a memorial to the state's and nation's veterans.
Exchange programs played a vital role in official and unofficial relations between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. Examples of cultural exchange programs include student exchanges, sports exchanges, and scholarly or professional exchanges, among many others. While many exchange programs are funded by the government ...
The American Schools at War program was a program during World War II run by the U.S. Treasury Department, in which schoolchildren set goals to sell stamps and bonds to help the war effort. The program was also administered by the U.S. Office of Education , the Federal government agency that interfaced with the nation's school systems and its ...
The Block's store was located on Market Street across from the Indianapolis Traction Terminal (the largest traction terminal in the United States). From 1900 to the 1930s, the Indiana interurban system brought shoppers by the thousands from smaller central Indiana towns to shop in downtown Indianapolis. The availability of cheap mass transit to ...
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.Launched in 1931, it was the flagship of the commander of Scouting Force 1 for eight years, then flagship for Admiral Raymond Spruance from 1943 to 1945 while he commanded the Fifth Fleet in battles across the Central Pacific during World War II.
Shot down German plane from AFS Lewis Burwell account personal letters from the front The remains of two ambulances destroyed by German shell-fire brought to Paris 21 ambulances in the yard at 21 Rue Raynouard in Paris The American Ambulance Field Service convoy near Dombasle-en-Argonne in 1917 Julien Bryan in front of his Ambulance 464 in April 1917 near Verdun A. Piatt Andrew, director of ...