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Watch WWII Spread Across the Globe

Watch WWII Spread Across the Globe

Follow the rise and fall of both the Axis and Allied powers during World War IIin The Spreading War.

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Hollis Stabler; Sergeant, Technician 4th Grade, 4th Ranger Battalion, WWII

Hollis Stabler; Sergeant, Technician 4th Grade, 4th Ranger Battalion, WWII

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B. Nick Garcia, high school graduation; WWII Staff Sergeant, 1st Marine Division

B. Nick Garcia, high school graduation; WWII Staff Sergeant, 1st Marine Division

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Francis Greenlief; Major General, 1972

Francis Greenlief; Major General, 1972

Courtesy Office of Public Affiars, National Guard Bureau

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Charles Lane, Jr.; Lieutenant Colonel, Tuskegee Airman, 99th Figher Squadron, U.S. Air Force

Charles Lane, Jr.; Lieutenant Colonel, Tuskegee Airman, 99th Figher Squadron, U.S. Air Force

Courtesy Charles Lane, Jr. & NET Foundation for Television

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Capt. Keith G. Van Neste

Capt. Keith G. Van Neste

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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Telegram with notice of Capt. Van Neste’s death

Telegram with notice of Capt. Van Neste’s death

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"Negro Enlisted Men at Work on the Load Line, U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot"; Hastings, Nebraska, 1944

"Negro Enlisted Men at Work on the Load Line, U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot"; Hastings, Nebraska, 1944

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, 283499

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Lieutenant Colonel Charles Lane, Jr., Tuskegee Airman, 99th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Air Force, and his plane, Meatball

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Lane, Jr., Tuskegee Airman, 99th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Air Force, and his plane, Meatball

Courtesy Charles Lane Jr. & NET Foundation for Television, 2007

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Tuskegee mission briefing during WWII

Tuskegee mission briefing during WWII

Courtesy Charles Lane, Jr. & NET Foundation for Television, 2007

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B. (Baldomero) Nick Garcia’s high school graduation picture, circa 1940s. Later, Garcia was Staff Sergeant, 1st Marine Division, and a resident of Lincoln, NE.

B. (Baldomero) Nick Garcia’s high school graduation picture, circa 1940s. Later, Garcia was Staff Sergeant, 1st Marine Division, and a resident of Lincoln, NE.

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Nick Garcia’s mother and father, circa late 1910s

Nick Garcia’s mother and father, circa late 1910s

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Ben Kuroki is welcomed by Tom Parker into the Veteran of Foreign Wars in Omaha, Nebraska in 1944. Others in photo unidentified. Photo by the War Relocation Authority.

Ben Kuroki is welcomed by Tom Parker into the Veteran of Foreign Wars in Omaha, Nebraska in 1944. Others in photo unidentified. Photo by the War Relocation Authority.

Courtesy Tom Parker & National Archives & Records Administration

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While he was visiting 3 relocation camps (Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Minidoka in Idaho, & Topaz, Utah), Ben Kuroki became a celebrity among the younger Nisei internees, who were as captivated by Air Corps flyers as the rest of America

While he was visiting 3 relocation camps (Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Minidoka in Idaho, & Topaz, Utah), Ben Kuroki became a celebrity among the younger Nisei internees, who were as captivated by Air Corps flyers as the rest of America

Some of the older Nisei and immigrant Japanese had far different feelings. War Relocation Authority photo. Courtesy Ben Kuroki & National Archives & ... Read more

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"Is that at right angles?" questions T. T. Aakhus of Takaro Nakae in a drawing class; 1944 Cornhusker, UNL Yearbook

"Is that at right angles?" questions T. T. Aakhus of Takaro Nakae in a drawing class; 1944 Cornhusker, UNL Yearbook

Courtesy University of Nebraska Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

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Roy Deguchi (bottom row, center) was a member of R.O.T.C. Company E at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 1944 Cornhusker, UNL Yearbook

Roy Deguchi (bottom row, center) was a member of R.O.T.C. Company E at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 1944 Cornhusker, UNL Yearbook

Courtesy University of Nebraska Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

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Six-year-old war orphan with Buchenwald badge on his sleeve, June 19, 1945

Six-year-old war orphan with Buchenwald badge on his sleeve, June 19, 1945

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, 531302

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Berlin, Germany, 28 June, 1947; Nebraskan Justice E. F. Carter (second from left) is one of 3 judges on the right receiving letter of appointment for the 5th Military Tribunal, Nuremberg

Berlin, Germany, 28 June, 1947; Nebraskan Justice E. F. Carter (second from left) is one of 3 judges on the right receiving letter of appointment for the 5th Military Tribunal, Nuremberg

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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Mission map for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 & August 9, 1945. Kokura is included because it was original target for August 9. However, weather obscured visibility, so Nagasaki was chosen as backup.

Mission map for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 & August 9, 1945. Kokura is included because it was original target for August 9. However, weather obscured visibility, so Nagasaki was chosen as backup.

Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

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Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley in Nagasaki, Japan; September 24, 1945, six weeks after the city was destroyed by the world’s second atomic bomb attack

Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley in Nagasaki, Japan; September 24, 1945, six weeks after the city was destroyed by the world’s second atomic bomb attack

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