Category: 1940’s

Armed soldiers walking through a war-torn neighborhood with destroyed houses and debris in the background.

Allied Armies – The Push East – September 29, 1944

News for this September 29, 1944 had much to do with the Allied armies push east, inching across France. American 1st army troops smashed forward Echterbosch forest in a new attack above Aachen today as battles of increasing intensity flared all along the front between Holland and France. Other allied

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Hiroshima - August 6, 1945

Hiroshima: The Day The Sun Rose Twice – August 6, 1945

– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t

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A vintage black-and-white photo of a man and woman at a table, with the woman opening a gift and the man looking down, capturing a nostalgic moment of mid-20th-century life.

Dog Days Of War – Dog Days Of Summer – July 31, 1940

– News for July 31, 1940 – As the Dog Days of Summer and the Nation’s Capitol sweltered for its thirteenth consecutive day, this July 31st in 1940, the news was appropriately sparse, the events were comparatively few and the air-conditioning comparatively rare. Starting with news from London that overnight

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