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4 days ago · (1950–1953) The outbreak of the Korean War caught naval aviation in the midst of transition. The establishment of the National Military Establishment in 1947 and its reorganization in 1949, when it was renamed the Department of Defense, required adjustments that had not been completed by the outbreak of war. Successive budgetary decreases had reduced the size of the service, and a ...
3 days ago · Provided. Joseph S. Pete. A soldier who had gone missing for 73 years after becoming a prisoner of war during the Korean War will be paid tribute to Saturday at a union hall in Gary. Army Sgt ...
3 days ago · Lakeland resident Ken Pennington, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, died Saturday at 105. He served in the U.S. Navy for nearly 30 years.
22 hours ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
5 days ago · The Korean War. With 'The Korean War' Peter Lowe returns to the subject of the 1950-53 south-east Asian conflict which he argues could have flared up into the third world war of the twentieth century (see also Peter Lowe 1986). In the preface he outlines the objective of the book as follows, 'to provide a concise survey of the origins, nature ...
2 days ago · The 34th U.S. president, Eisenhower served two terms, from 1953 to 1961. His tenure came at the end of fighting in the Korean War but during the Cold War. A period of general economic growth and prosperity, it was the age of the housing, television, and baby booms but also the era of McCarthyism.
