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The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940. The intense early-season " panhandle hook " winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan .
A two-minute silence has been observed across the nation to mark Armistice Day. The country fell silent at 11am on the anniversary of the end of the First World War to remember those who have died ...
The Rochambelles were the first women’s unit integrated into an armored division on the western front during World War II. A total of 51 women served in the First Company, 13th medical battalion of the French Second Armored Division from 1943 to 1945, and then some members continued on to Indochina.
Armistice Day celebrations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 11 November 1918. Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am [1] for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of ...
Mary. This classic name was the most popular name for girls of the 1940s.It has Biblical roots as the name of Jesus' mother Mary, as well as Mary Magdalene. There are multiple ideas about the ...
None of the top 10 girls' names from 2023 even made the top 40 list in the 1940s. Here are the 40 most popular baby boy and 40 most popular baby girl names of the 1940s, according to the Social ...
Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (2010) excerpt and text search; Leneman, Leah. "Medical women at war, 1914–1918." Medical history (1994) 38#2 pp: 160–177. online on Britain; Merry, L. K. Women Military Pilots of World War II: A History with Biographies of American, British, Russian and German Aviators ...
The country fell silent at 11am, marking 102 years since the first two-minute silence was observed on Armistice Day, November 11 1919.