At the beginning of World War 1, the squadron moved to France and were the first to land there.
About 60 oil paintings, murals and sketches gathered together from Moscow, St Petersburg and Paris focus on the eight years Chagall spent in his home town of Vitebsk in Russia during World War 1, the Bolshevik Revolution and its aftermath.
In the 59 bombing raids that flattened Plymouth during World War II more than 1, 000 high explosives fell on the city.
The History Channel earlier this year ran a riveting documentary mini-series (retelevised Oct. 1) called World War II in Color.
Nearly 1, 000 survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel to mark the museum's 20th anniversary.
The 750kg (1, 650lb) unexploded World War II (WWII) weapon was placed on the sea bed after it was caught in the nets of a fishing boat earlier in the week.
The UNODA estimates that by the 1970s and '80s, 25 states were developing chemical weapons capabilities, and that since the end of the First World War, such munitions have caused more than 1 million casualties globally.
After World War II, for example, American railroads employed about 1.5 million people.
As Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter points out, every economic expansion since the second world war has had at least one quarter of growth below 1% which did not become a serious downturn.
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When it first opened, the walkway was 1, 200ft (365m) long but in World War II a section of the pier was removed amid fears of German invasion.
During World War I the company, which eventually became known as Hunter, produced 1.2 million rubber boots that soldiers could wear in trenches.
Back then, Investor was picking up companies whose value had been battered after the First World War, for instance buying Astra (of AstraZeneca) in 1924 for just 1 Swedish kroner.
But overall consumer spending by salaried workers shrank 1.8% last year, only the second decline since World War II.
The aforementioned Journal article specifically cited the struggles of Forrest Yeager, a 91-year old World War II veteran who, thanks to short-term CD rates paying less than 1% interest, has been forced to dig deeper into his principal in order to get by on a monthly basis.
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The only radiation events on this scale, where large populations received 0.1 Sv (10 rem) to 1 Sv (100 rem) have been the atomic bomb blasts from World War II.
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In the UK, the richest 1% take about 14% of all income - the highest since World War II but lower than the interwar period, according to the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.
The tally of strikes involving 1, 000 or more workers last year reached 29, the lowest since the second world war and one-eighth the level of two decades ago.
The 1, 500 graves in the cemeteries hold the bodies of servicemen who died during and after World War II.
In total the Commonwealth War Graves Commission is responsible for commemorating almost 1.7 million service personnel who died in the two world wars.
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