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Airborne leaflet propaganda

James A.C. Brown, a Scottish psychiatrist, summed up the WW2 experience with the observation that "Propaganda is successful only when directed at those who are willing to listen, absorb the information, and if possible act on it, and this happens only when the other side is in a condition of lowered morale and is already losing the campaign".

Anti-submarine warfare

The United States studied the German Type XXI and used the information to modify WW2 fleet boats with the GUPPY program.

Arto Monaco

Shortly after WW2, he was asked by his old colonel, Bill James, to work help refurbish Lake Arrowhead Resort, Lake Arrowhead, California, as a Swiss-style resort village.

Breivoll Inspection Technologies AS

In 1992, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) was hired by the Norwegian authorities to develop technology to detect any remaining oil in the sunken German WW2 warship Blücher.

California, Berkshire

After WW2 the track was home for the team known as California Poppies which raced in the Southern Area League.

Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft

On the outbreak of WW2, all of the factories capacity was switched to produce parts for the Supermarine Spitfire.

East Asian rainy season

The enka artist Eiichi Ōtaki produced a popular song by this name, and a WW2 Japanese naval ship was also given this name.

Handsworth Wood

Birmingham historian Dr. Carl Chinn noted that during WW2 the boundary between Handsworth and Handsworth Wood marked the line between being safe and unsafe from bombing, with Handsworth Wood being an official evacuation zone due to its very country like, undeveloped landscape.

Hillberg

Hillberg Carbine, a light rifle concept for the US armed forces during WW2

Janeen Webb

The daughter of a WW2 Australian Army commando and salesman, Janeen Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at schools locally.

Langenstein

Langenstein-Zwieberge, a WW2 concentration camp in Langenstein, Saxony-Anhalt

Legendo

The company is best known for its loose remakes of classic literary works by Bram Stoker and Alexandre Dumas as well as the Attack on Pearl Harbor and Pearl Harbor Trilogy series of WW2 air-combat action games.

Melesta Games

Each world in the game is devoted to the most famous operations of WW2, Battle of Stalingrad, Overlord and Crusader.

Riddarhustorget

It was originally created as the private residence of Gustaf Bonde (1620–1667) in the 1660s to the design by Jean de la Vallée and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, however overtaken by the city in the early 18th century to serve as a city hall until the early 20th century and since WW2 accommodating the Supreme Court.

Rockets Galore!

In the cold-war era of post-WW2 Britain, the government decides to establish a guided missile base on the Hebridean isle of Todday.

Roy Herbert Reinhart

During WW2, Reinhart served as lieutenant Combat Engineer in Patton's Third army and took part in the Liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, the Crossing of the Rhine, and the liberation of Buchenwald.

Seafire

Supermarine Seafire, a British naval fighter in service during WW2 and immediate post-war.

Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt

He also completed parachute training at RAF Ringway, Manchester England (This base was used for Men and women agents of the Special Operations Executive as well as all (60,000) allied paratroopers trained in Europe during WW2).

Thames, New Zealand

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park – WW2 Air Commander and AOC 11 Group during Battle of Britain (July – October 1940)

William Farr School

The school was opened as a secondary modern in 1952 on the site of RAF Dunholme Lodge, a WW2 Bomber Command station, which had been bought for £600 in 1946 by Rev William Farr, the vicar of Welton.

Yugoslav First Federal Basketball League

Post-WW2 Yugoslavia was (with the exception of major cities such as Belgrade, Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Sarajevo) for the most part lacking in competitive opportunities in sports.


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