The business flourished as GIs came home from World War II.
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After steady growth in home ownership since World War II in England, it has been in decline since 2003.
His father was drafted into the army just after Mori was born, in 1937, and didn't come home until after World War II had ended.
While the role of the Home Guard during World War II has been widely celebrated, very little is known of their counterparts in the Auxiliary Units, who would have been Britain's last line of defence in the event of a Nazi invasion.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) site was home to RAF Bomber Command in World War II and became redundant in 2004.
The 100-year-old motorcycle maker in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, didn't really take off until disengaged World War II veterans came home and took to the road on the powerful macho bikes.
Born in Yorkshire in 1925 into a working-class family, Prof Edwards served in the British army during World War II before returning home to study first agricultural sciences and then animal genetics.
Before World War II, Poland was home to about 3.5 million Jews, the largest Jewish community in Europe.
Electricians were shocked to find an unexploded World War II bomb at a former home of a war veteran.
During World War II, the Bay area was home to more than 30 shipyards, machine shops and factories.
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Poland was home to about 3.5 million Jews before World War II, but most of them were killed by the Nazis.
Spencer, who lived from 1891 to 1959, largely painted scenes from his home village of Cookham, Berkshire, but after World War II made a number of journeys to the Rostrevor area.
We might have expected the too-rapidly dwindling ranks of World War II veterans to look for a glimpse of home life in the months before 15 million of them entered the services.
After all, at the end of World War II, so many Americans like my grandfather came home to new opportunities.
My grandfather marched off to Europe in World War II, while my grandmother worked in factories on the home front.
The family of a 90-year-old World War II veteran who died after being violently robbed in his home have appealed for help to catch his killer.
During World War II, it was used as an observation post by the local Home Guard and Observer Corps.
And when he came home, he went to school on the GI Bill, because America decided that every returning veteran of World War II should be able to afford it.
Bill so our veterans, including our outstanding Latino veterans, can come home to the same chance to earn a college education as my grandfather had when he came back from World War II.
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