Thanksgiving Day 1942 was a jarring experience, not just for the U.S. service members half a world away from home but also to the countries suddenly playing host to a wholly unfamiliar holiday.
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In two incidents a week apart in August 1943, Gen. George S. Patton slapped soldiers in field hospitals in Sicily. Though war correspondents knew about at least one incident almost immediately, they chose not to report it and the news didn’t become public until three months later.
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A veteran foreign correspondent who had witnessed firsthand the rise of authoritarianism in several European capitals, Ralph Barnes was the first American reporter to die covering a war that spanned the globe.
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The official start of World War II was still nearly a year away the night of Nov. 9 and 10, 1938, but what occurred that evening — now known as Kristallnacht — made clear to the world the savagery of the Nazi regime.
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