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- New Hampshire residents kept the economy moving on the homefront and provided crucial weapons of war to the American Navy during World War II. The small state of New Hampshire played an outsized role in America's fight to win World War II.
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Learn about New Hampshire's outsized role in America's fight to win World War II, including the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard's construction of 70 submarines and the arrival of four Nazi U-boats.
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Photographic prints taken between approximately 1942 and 1944 of the effects of World War II in New Hampshire. Includes images of posters encouraging the planti.
Nov 15, 2017 · In large and small ways, people from New Hampshire played an outsized role in helping shape the conflict on European battlefields, in the halls of Congress, and in American living rooms. New Hampshire sent nearly 9,000 men to fight in Europe, most of them with the famed Yankee Division, which was the longest-serving American division in France.
Nov 12, 2023 · If you are looking to support veterans, the New Hampshire Veterans Home has a list of ways you can help. Both men are part of that greatest generation, among just 702 World War II veterans...
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The military mobilization of the 1940s resulted in a significant shift in the demographics of the students at the New Hampshire School of Accounting and Finance. The class of 1940 had consisted of 27 men and 21 women. The next year that shifted to just 6 men and 26 women, 19 men and 32 women in 1942, and 10 men and 23 women in 1943.
German POW Franz Bacher escaped the World War II prison camp in Northern New Hampshire on Aug. 1, 1944, eluding a manhunt for more than a month. Whether he was recaptured by clever FBI detective work or by a chance encounter is still a mystery.