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1. warfarehistorynetwork.com › american-athletesAmerican Athletes and Spectator Sports During World War II

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   Being a team member and in the war, that was the epitome of what they were doing, wasn’t it? To risk yourself for the bigger group.” From Basketball Players to Warriors. Professional basketball was a relatively minor sport in the United States before World War II. One pro league, the National Basketball League, or NBL, was organized in 1937.

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2. www.jstor.org › stable › jWartime Basketball: The Emergence of a National Sport ... - JSTOR

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   xml. Wartime Basketball tells the story of basketball's survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game's growth after the war. Prior to World War II, basketball-professional and collegiate-was largely a regional game, with different styles played throughout the country.

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   How did the end of World War II affect basketball?

   • However, the end of the war would begin to diminish their advantages. The end of World War II increased the player pool for professional basketball, situating the sport within the peacetime prosperity boom. In Chapter Five, “Looking Toward the Future, 1945-1946,” Stark recounts the expansion of the NBL and ABL.

   Review of Wartime Basketball | Sport in American History

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   How many Arsenal players died in WW2?

   • Eight members of the Arsenal team died during the war, including Bobby Daniel, Sidney Pugh, Harry Cook, and Leslie Lack. Goalkeeper Bill Dean was killed in action with the Royal Navy in March 1942. Three other Arsenal players, Hugh Glass, Herbie Roberts, and Cyril Tooze, who all joined the Royal Fusiliers, also lost their lives.

   American Athletes and Spectator Sports During World War II

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   How did basketball contribute to WW2?

   • Like the rest of the sports scene, basketball contributed thousands of players to the war; some never came home. One such player was Bob “Ace” Calkins, who captained the UCLA team in 1938-1939. When war broke out, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and was serving as a navigator aboard a B-17 when it was shot down.

   American Athletes and Spectator Sports During World War II

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   Did WW2 veterans play a basketball game in New York?

   • On an unremarkable Wednesday evening in the spring of 1948, 15,561 spectators flocked to New York’s Madison Square Garden to watch two teams of World War II veterans play an exhibition basketball game. The servicemen who took to the hardwood that night were as extraordinarily ordinary as any group of veterans.

   The Paralyzed World War II Veterans Who Invented Wheelchair Basketball

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4. ussporthistory.com › review-of-wartime-basketballReview of Wartime Basketball | Sport in American History

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   Nov 13, 2016 · University of Nebraska Press, 2016. With Wartime Basketball, Stark, the museum director of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, offers an entertaining, alternative history of basketball. By situating the period of World War II as a critical moment for the development of the game, Stark does not privilege the NCAA and NBA as the important ...

5. history.nbacares.org › foundation › world-war-iiWorld War II - NBA History

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   World War II. Mom Thorpe, Cleveland Christian Home. “NBA had initiated no Homes since 1920 and had enlarged none since 1929… funds became available in 1938-41 for major improvements and additions. However, just as construction began, the world went to war. World War II put all building programs on hold as young men and women went off to war.

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8. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › how-paralyzedThe Paralyzed World War II Veterans Who Invented Wheelchair ...

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   Sep 2, 2020 · On an unremarkable Wednesday evening in the spring of 1948, 15,561 spectators flocked to New York’s Madison Square Garden to watch two teams of World War II veterans play an exhibition ...

9. www.nationalww2museum.org › students-teachersResearch Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War II | The ...

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   Research Starters: The Draft and World… Research Starters: D-Day; Research Starters: The GI Bill; Research Starters: Higgins Boats; Research Starters: The Battle of Midway; Research Starters: Women in World War II; Take A Closer Look: Ration Books; Take A Closer Look: America Goes to War; History At a Glance: Women in World War… /

   Country	Military Deaths	Total Civilian And Military Deaths
   Albania	30,000	30,200
   Australia	39,800	40,500
   Austria	261,000	384,700
   Belgium	12,100	86,100

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10. www.britannica.com › event › casualties-of-World-WarCasualties of World War II | Statistics, By Country, & Total

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    May 15, 2024 · A German soldier lying dead outside a pillbox above Utah Beach, Les Dunes de Madeleine, France, June 6, 1944. World War II, the deadliest and most destructive war in human history, claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displaced tens of millions of people, and cost more than $1 trillion to prosecute. The financial cost to the United States ...