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Petermann was a high-ranking female overseer at two Nazi concentration camps during the closing of World War II. She was last seen in 1944. [145] 1944 Karla Mayer: 35–36 Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Poland Mayer was a German guard at three Nazi death camps during World War II. She disappeared in 1944 and her fate remains a mystery. [146]
File unit: Hawaii - Coconut Island, Oahu (National Archives Identifier: 23906848) 18-AA-50-12; Source: ... Microsoft Windows Photo Viewer 6.1.7600.16385:
The Battle of the Coconut Grove was a battle between United States Marine Corps and Imperial Japanese Army forces on Bougainville Island during the Pacific War.The battle took place on 13–14 November 1943 during the Bougainville campaign, coming in the wake of a successful landing around Cape Torokina at the start of November, as part of the advance towards Rabaul as part of Operation Cartwheel.
Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.
The Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville, one of the Solomon Islands. It was part of Operation Cartwheel, the Allied grand strategy in the South Pacific.
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [343] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [344]
Australians and U.S. for the first time in World War II stop a Japanese offensive (against Port Moresby) • Battle of Guadalcanal: Beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands. • Battle of Savo Island: Japanese sink four US cruisers. • Battle of Dieppe: Operation Jubilee was an Allied amphibious raid on the German-occupied port of Dieppe ...
The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.