And here's the odd little bit of history, in World War II the Japanese parachuted bombs onto the west coast, and into Alaska, even.
That is the message of "Eisenhower 1956, " David A. Nichols's history of how Ike, the old hero of World War II, resisted great pressure to commit U.S. forces in the Suez Crisis and, later, the rebellion in Hungary.
In particular he has very right-wing views on the history of Japan's aggression during World War II.
"Investors have finally got the idea of what it really means to have seriously different type of recovery than what we have seen in post-World War II history, " says David Mann, head of research in the Americas for Standard Chartered Bank.
If you look at the history after World War II, a lot of people in the U.S. left their animation jobs for other types of work.
Temora, a five-hour drive west of Sydney, with a rich aviation history as the site of Australia's biggest pilot-training school during World War II, was already a center for sport aviation activities such as gliding, parachuting and aerobatics.
The debate underscores not only the complexities of Holocaust history but also the difficulty countries can face reconciling the heroic deeds of an individual during World War II with the record of a nation as a whole.
Bath Abbey has begun a project to create an oral history of the people who helped restore the building after World War II.
After just one year of the Obama spending binge, federal spending had already rocketed to 25.2% of GDP, the highest in American history except for World War II.
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With 2007 as the largest birth year in U.S. history, even larger than the years of the post-World-War-II baby boom.
The history of the very few "grand coalition" experiments in Italy since World War II does not inspire hope for long-term success.
So I want to congratulate Coach Ken -- as I said, from my original home state, also the first Samoan American head coach in the history of Division I-A, just the third Navy coach since World War II to have a winning record in his first season.
Best known for his seminal series on the history of Ireland, he went into journalism after serving in the RAF during World War II.
After just one year of the Obama spending binge, federal spending had already rocketed to 25.2% of GDP, the highest in U.S. history except for World War II.
The next year in my 20th Century History class we were assigned a paper comparing the occupations of Germany and Japan after World War II with the contemporary occupation of Iraq.
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From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
In all the history of conflict though, there has been nothing, thank God, to compare to World War II - no mosaic so complex or so costly was ever built, nor one that contained so many pieces.
Folks like my grandfather came back from World War II to form the backbone of the largest middle class in history.
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After all, during World War II, we allied ourselves with Josef Stalin, one of history's all-time mass murderers, to defeat Adolf Hitler.
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Relations between Seoul and Tokyo have frequently been troubled by issues from their shared history - including Japan's use of military sex slaves or "comfort women" during World War II, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.
His visit to the Cologne synagogue, rebuilt after World War II, will mark only the second time in history that a head of the Catholic Church has entered a Jewish place of worship.
The public silence of the Vatican during the widespread atrocities of World War II is arguably the most controversial issue in the Catholic Church's wartime history.
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