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- Tags: Germany
Frauelin Invasion
Tags: Amasa Edward Hoyt, Jr.; Binghamton, New York; Bushnell; Florida National Cemetery; Germany; marriage; military history; military service; National Cemetery Administration; newspapers; Press and Sun-Bulletin; veterans; Veterans Administration; Veterans Legacy Program; World War II; World War, 1939-1945; WWII
World War II Highlight of: The "Blood and Fire" Route
Tags: 63rd Infantry Division; battles; Blood and Fire; Germany; Rhineland; U.S. Army; USA; veterans; World War II; WWII
German Currency During World War II
Tags: currency; Germany; money; Reichsmark; World War II; WWII
Mark IV Tank Postcard
Reims Cathedral During 1st Bombardment Years Postcard
Bombardment of Reims Cathedral Postcard
Reims During First Bombardment Years Postcard
The Cathedral Before the Fire Postcard
Reims During 1st Bombardment Years Postcard
Bombardment of Reims Postcard
A History of Central Florida, Episode 39: Wartime Civil Defense
Tags: 1st Street; 3rd Inceptor Command; A History of Central Florida; air raid warning siren; aircraft; Aircraft Warning Service; airplane; Aldeman, Helen; American Legion, Inc.; AP; Associated Press; Attack of Pearl Harbor; AWS; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Blanding, Albert H.; BPOE; Cees, Jay; Civic Exhibition Center; civil defense; civilian; civilian volunteer; Civitan Club; Clarke, Bob; club; Coates, Hope; cold war; College Club; Elks Lodge; Empire State Building; Fenton, B. J.; First Street; Ford, Chip; Fort Kent, Maine; Fortune Magazine; Frank, Walter; Geneva; German; Germany; Gibson, Ella; Hannon, Barbara; Harrell, George "Speedy"; Hazen, Kendra; homefront; Japan; Japanese; Johnnie Walker Whisky; Kelley, Katie; Key West; Kiwanis Club; La Paz; labor; Lions Club; Long, Mark Howard; Martin, Mary Jo; Messerschmitt Me 262; Meyers, Betty; Mormino, Gary Ross; Morrison Field Army Air Base; Museum of Geneva History; Nazi; Nazi German; New York City, New York; Norton Gallery and School of Art; observation station; OCRHC; Orange County Regional History Center; Palm Beach; Palm Beach Art League; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Pioneer Hall; podcast; RICHES; Robb, Inex; Robert Cassanello; Rotary Club; Soviet; Soviet Union; spotter; spotters' neck; State Defense Council of Florida; Strain, Ralph; Stumpf; submarine; Tallahassee; Tampa; The Palm Beach Post; Third Inceptor Command; Thomas, Tommy; training; training disc; Tylander, Ray; U-boat; U.S. Air Corps; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Ground Observer Corps; UCF; University of Central Florida; USAAC; Velásquez, Daniel; Walker, Johnnie; war effort; warship; Witek, J. R.; women; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Terry W. Wheeler
Tags: 11th ACR; 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment; 18th Airborne Corps; 2nd ACR; 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Battalion; 2nd Lieutenant; 69th Armor Regiment; Achievement Medal; ACR; advanced training; Airborne Corps; Armor Officer; Armor Regiment; Armored Cavalry Regiment; basic training; Bavaria, Germany; Berlin Wall; Blachorse Regiment; cavalry; COEA; cold war; combat simulations; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commander; cost and operational effectiveness analysis; CVHP; deployments; East Germany; Eighteenth Airborne Corps; Eleventh Armored Cavalry Regiment; enlistment; Executive Officer; Federal Republic of Germany; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Lee, Virginia; Free State of Bavaria; freedom birds; FRG; German Democratic Republic; Germans; Germany; Infantry Branch; information technology; inner German border; IT; lieutenants; Maintenance Officer; military training; Operations Research/Systems Analysis; ORSA; rapid deployment force; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; ROTC; Schweinfurt, Germany; scouts; SDES; Second ACR; Second Armored Cavalry Regiment; Second Battalion; Second Lieutenant; simulation training; Sixty-Ninth Armor Regiument; Student Development and Enrollment Services; Tank Company Commander; Taylor Johnson; Terry W. Wheeler; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Infrantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia; UCF; UCF SDES; UCF Student Development and Enrollment Services; veterans; weapon systems; West Germany; XVIII Airborne Corps
Oral History of Ray Sturm
Tags: 210th Field Artillery Brigade; 34th Infantry Division; accountants; Advanced Individual Training; advanced training; AIT; alcohol; alcoholic beverages; alerts; AR-15; Army Special Forces; basic training; beers; budget cuts; cold war; colleges; Columbia, South Carolina; Community Veterans History Project; comradery; CVHP; David Lee Roth; defense; defense budgets; Desert Storm; desert training; E-3; E-4; education; Enlisted Rank 3; Enlisted Rank 4; enlistment; Federal Republic of Germany; firearms; First Gulf War; First Iraq War; Fort Irwin & the National Training Center; Fort Jackson; Fort Stewart; Frankfurt Airport; Frankfurt, Germany; FRG; Georgia; German Air Force; Germans; Germany; Gulf War; Gulf War I; guns; Headquarters and Headquarters Battery; Herzo Base; Herzogenaurach, Germany; HHB; higher education; Iraq; Iraq War; James Earl Carter, Jr.; Jimmy Carter; Katie Hollingsworth; Kuwait; Kuwait War; law enforcement; Luftwaffe; M16 rifles; military training; Mojave Desert; music; musicians; National Training Center; NCO; non-commissioned officers; Nuremberg Trials; Nuremberg, Germany; Operation Desert Storm; orlando; Persian Gulf War; PFC; police; police brutality; polizei; Private First Class; range shooting; rapid deployment forces; Ray Sturm; Republic of Iraq; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; sergeants; shooting; shooting ranges; soldiers; Special Forces; Specialist 4; State of Kuwait; supply; terrorism; terrorists; Thirty-Fourth Infantry Division; training; Two Hundred and Tenth Field Artillery Brigade; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Special Forces; UCF; University of Central Florida; Van Halen; veterans; veterans' benefits; Warrior Thunder; weapons; weather; West Germany; Wilson Jones; Winter Park; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Philip Rogers
Tags: 9/11; advanced training; American Chemical Society; Bennett Drive; Berlin Wall; Berlin, Germany; Bill Clinton; Bronx, New York City, New York; Caribbean Crisis; cold war; colleges; colorblindness; Commander; commissioned officers; Community Veterans History Project; Cuba; Cuban Missile Crisis; CVHP; dependents' cruises; deterrent patrols; dry docks; education; educators; Engineering Duty Officer; Engineering Duty Officer Dolphin Program; Engineering Duty Officer Dolphins; Engineering Duty Officer School; Father of the Nuclear Navy; firefighting; fires; Florida Power & Light Company; FPL; Gerald Mattson; Germany; Hyman G. Rickover; Hyman George Rickover; Indiana University; instructors; Jensen Beach; Jim Tully; Killian Hiltz; Lehman College; mayors; military education; military spouses; military training; military wife; military wives; Nathan Hale; nuclear power; Nuclear Power Ballistic Missile Submarines; nuclear power plants; Nuclear Power School; nuclear safety; Nuclear Ship Superintendent School; October Crisis; Officer Indoctrination School; OIS; orlando; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Philip Rogers; presidents; Restricted Line Officer; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; Safety Training Coordinator; September 11th; South Florida; Soviet Union; Soviets; SSBN; Steve Israel; SU; Submarine School; submarines; subs; teachers; terrorism; terrorists; The Missile Scare; training; U.S. Naval Reserve; U.S. Navy; UCF; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; universities; university; University of Central Florida; USS Nathan Hale; USSR; veterans; Washington, D.C.; William Jefferson Blythe III; William Jefferson Clinton
WUCF Artisodes Short: Bach Festival Society
Tags: A Child of Our Time; Artisodes; artistic directors; Bach Festival Society; Bach Festival Society of Winter Park; Bach, Johann Sebastian; black spirituals; choirs; classical music; composer; Deep River; education; Germany; Get the Message; Holocaust; Hymn to the Eternal Flame; Johann Sebastian Bach; John Sinclair; Kristallnacht; Michael Kemp Tippett; Michael Tippett; music; music education; musicians; Nazi Germany; Night of Broken Glass; Nobody Know the Trouble I've Seen; Novemberpogrome; oppression; orchestras; orlando; PBS; persecution; Pogromnacht; Public Broadcasting Service; Reichskristallnacht; social activism; spirituals; Steal Away; Steal Away to Jesus; Stephen Paulus; TV; UCF; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; University of Central Florida; Winter Park; World War II; WUCF Artisodes; WUCF Artisodes Short; WUCF-TV; WWII
Oral History of Lawrence Paul Levine
Tags: accounting; advanced training; Airframe Repair School; airframe repair specialists; airframe repairman; airframe repairmen; airplanes; Amarill, Texas; Amarillo AFB; Amarillo Air Force Base; anti-war movement; basic training; Boeing 707; Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker; Brown University; BU; Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; Burlington County, New Jersey; C-141 Galaxy; colorblindness; Community Veterans History Project; conscription; Custom Service; CVHP; Detachment 51; draft board; draft lottery; drafts; education; enlistment; Europe; F-101; F-105; F-4; fast food restaurants; fiber glassing; fiberglass; firearms; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; G.I. Bill; Germany; Good Conduct Medal; gun ranges; guns; instructors; Ishihara Color Test; jet; jet fighter; jets; KC-135; Lackland AFB; Lackland Air Force Base; Larry Levine; Lawrence Paul Levin; marching; marriages; Mary Hughes Young; McDonald's; McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II; McDonnell F-101 Voodoo; Mcguire AFB; Mcguire Air Force Base; metal; military draft; military education; military training; pacifism; pacifists; peace movement; phantom jets; planes; protests; Providence, Rhode Island; pylon; Republic F-105 Thunderchief; Rhein-Main AB; Rhein-Main Air Base; RIT; riveting; Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, New York; San Antonio, Texas; Selective Service System; Sergeant; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; sharpshooters; sharpshooting; Shaw AFB; Shaw Air Force Base; sheet metal; Staff Sergeant; Sumter, South Carolina; TDY; temporary duty; The Platters; TI; training; U.S. Air Force; U.S. Air Force in Europe; U.S. Army; U.S. Army Air Corps; U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection; U.S. Customs Service; United Service Organization; USAFE; USO; veterans; Vietnam; Vietnam War; World War II; WWII
Oral History of Dr. William "Bill" Blank
Tags: 1972 Summer Olympics; 9/11 Attacks; Adolf Hitler; all-volunteer military; An Uncaged Eagle: True Freedom; anti-war protest; anti-war protests; Arab-Israeli War of 1973; Bad Tölz, Germany; basic training; Bastogne, Belgium; Battle of the Bulge; Bavaria, Germany; Berlin Wall; Bill Blank; Black September Organization; BSO; buddy system; carpet bombing; carpet bombs; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Christmas; civilian; civilians; cognitive dissonance; cold war; college; colleges; conscription; Desert Shield; Desert Storm; diversity; draft lotteries; draft lottery; draft notices; drafting; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Dwight David Eisenhower; Eagle's Nest; educator; educators; Egypt; enlistment; Europe; Francis E. Warren AFB; Francis E. Warren Air Force Base; French Revolution; Gabrielle Hanke; Games of the XX Olympiad; gender segregation; Germans; Germany; GI Bill; Global War on Terror; guidance counseling; GWOT; Hall of Mirrors; Halloween Massacre; homecoming; Ike Eisenhower; international students; Iraq; Iraq War; Iron Curtain; Israel; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Kehlsteinhaus; Kent State Massacre; Kent State Shooting; Kent State University; KSU; Kuwait; Mannheim, Germany; Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen; Marie Antoinette; Marine Corps Base Quantico; Mark Spitz; Martin Bormann; May 4 Massacre; MCB Quantico; mentors; Middle East; military; military assignments; military drafts; military training; Munich Massacre; Munich, Germany; National Guard; National Socialist German Workers' Party; National Veterans Awareness Week; nationalism; Nazi Germany; Nazi Party; Nazis; Nixon, Richard, Milhous; North Central Wisconsin; NSDAP; October War; Ohio National Guard; Olympic Village; Olympics; Operation Desert Shield; Operation Desert Storm; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Wrath of God; Palestine; Persian Gulf War; police actions; protesters; Ramadan; Ramadan War; razorbacks; Red Tails; Republic of Vietnam; Richard Milhous Nixon; Richard Nixon; Richard Toliver; riot squads; riots; Russia; segregation; September 11 Attacks; Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; South Vietnam; student protests; Summer Olympics; Syria; tanks; teachers; terrorism; terrorists; Third Reich; Three Day War; Treaty of Friendship, co-operation, and Mutual Assistance; Tuskegee Airmen; U.S. Army; UCF; universities; university; University of Central Florida; veterans; Veterans' Day; Vietnam; Vietnam War; volunteer military; volunteers; war protests; WarPac; Warren AFB; Warren Air Force Base; Warsaw Pact; Watergate; Watergate Scandal; wild boars; William Blank; Wisconsin; woman; women; World Trade Center; World War II; WWII; Yom Kippur; Yom Kippur War
Oral History of Doris McClendon
Tags: administrative schools; administrative yeoman; administrative yeomans; African Americans; AIMD; Aircraft Intermediate Makers Department; basic training; Blue Lagoon; boot camps; calisthenics; Community Veterans History Project; Company Commanders; CVHP; E-1; E-5; Enlisted Rank 1; Enlisted Rank 5; Fleet Training Group; Germany; Goulds; Grinder; Homestead; Honolulu, Hawaii; Jacksonville; JAG Corps; JROTC; Judge Advocate General's Corps; Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; Keflavík, Iceland; legal assistants; legalman; legalmen; Legalmen A School; Lone Sailor Memorial Committee; Lone Sailor Memorial Project; mail calls; Mason, Perry; Mays Junior High School; McClendon, Dee; McClendon, Doris; Miami; NAS Keflavík; Naval Air Depot Jacksonville; Naval Air Station Keflavík; Naval Legal Services Detachment; Naval Station Key West; Naval Station Newport; Naval Station Norfolk; Naval Station Pearl Harbor; Naval Training Center Orlando; Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; Navy Marine Corps Trial Judiciary; Navy Memorial of Central Florida; Newport, Rhode Island; NJROTC; Norfolk, Virginia; NTC Orlando; orlando; paralegals; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; physical fitness; Pine Villa Elementary School; recruit training; Recruit Training Command; recruiters; Rhode Island; San Antonio, Texas; South Dade Senior High School; TAD; temporary additional duty; U. S. Air Force; U.S. Army; U.S. Navy; UCF; UM; Uncle Sam; University of Central Florida; University of Miami; USS Arizona; USS Arizona Memorial; USS Bluejacket; VA; VA hospital; veterans; Veterans Health Administration; Virginia; Weeks, Andrew Glen; yeoman school; yeoman schools
Letter from William MacKinnon to Henry Shelton Sanford (July 1, 1879)
Battle of the Bulge Memorial at Lake Eola
Tags: Allied Powers; Allies; American Flag; Ardennes Counteroffensive; Axis Powers; Bataille des Ardennes; Battle of the Ardennes; Battle of the Bulge; Belgian; Belgian flag; Belgium; Downtown Orlando; flag; G.I.; German; Germany; Lake Eola; Lake Eola Park; Luxembourg; Luxembourger; Luxembourger flag; memorial; monument; Nazi; Operation Watch on the Rhine; orlando; Scala, Chris; Schuppe, Cody; soldier; Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein; veteran; Wallonia; World War II; WWII
RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Episode 51: An Interview with Jim Clark, Part 1
Tags: Agnew, Spiro Theodore; anti-Communism; campaign; candidate; Clark, James "Jim" C.; Clark, Jim; Claude Pepper Center; Claude Pepper Library; Clinton, Bill; Clinton, William "Bill" Jefferson; cold war; communism; Communist; Communist Party; Congress; cracker; Democrat; Democratic Party; direct mail; documentary; elderly; election; election campaign; federal government; Florida State University; FSU; Germany; government spending; Hitler, Adolf; incumbent; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald; League of Women's Voters; left-wing; leftist; McCarthy, Joseph "Joe" Raymond; McCarthyism; Medicaid; Moscow, Russia; New Deal; Nixon, Richard Milhous; nomination; Pepper deficit; Pepper, Claude Denson; podcast; political campaign; politics; president; primary election; Primary Election of 1950; Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper's Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary; Red Scare; RICHES Podcast Documentaries; Robert Cassanello; Rotary Club; Rubio, Marco Antonio; Russia; Senate; senator; Smathers, George Armistead; Social Security; Soviet Union; speech; Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovic; Stalin, Joseph; Time Magazine; Truman, Harry S.; U.S. Attorney General; U.S. Senate; U.S. Senate primary; U.S. Senate primary election; U.S. Senate primary race; U.S. Senator; UF; University of Florida; voter; voting; World War II; WWII
Walt Disney Road Atlas for Cast Members
Tags: 2 R's - Read'n & Rite'n; 20,000 Leagues; 24KT Precious Adornments; Adventureland; Adventureland Veranda; America Gardens Theatre; Americana Dutch Resort; Arribas Brothers Warehouse; Artespaña; Aunt Polly's; Avenue of the Stars; Bath Parlor; Baton Rouge Lounge; Bay Lake; Bear Island Road; Big Pine Drive; Big Thunder Mountain Railroad; Bike Barn; Bonnet Creek Drive; Buena Vista Construction Company; Buena Vista Medical Clinic; Campfire Program; Canada; Cap'n Jack's Oyster Bar; Car Care Drive; Caribbean Drive; Caribbean Plaza; Carousel of Progress; cast members; Center Drive; China; Christmas Chalet; Cinderella's Golden Carousel; Circle-Vision 360; Columbia Harbour House; CommuniCore; Community Drive; Contemporary Resort; Country Address; Country Bear Jamboree; Cristal Arts; Crockett, Davy; Crystal Palace; Davy Crockett's Canoes; Diamond Jubilee; Discovery Island; Disney Inn; Dopey Drive; Dumbo; Earth Station; Empress Lilly Riverboat; Enchanted Groves; EPCOT Center; Epcot Center Drive; Fantasyland; Fantasyland Dining Room; Fatasy Faire; Floridian Lagoon; Fort Sam Clemens; Fort Wilderness Campground; Fort Wilderness Campground Resort; Fort Wilderness Trail; France; Friendship Landing; Frontage Road; Frontier Way; Frontierland; Frontierland Railroad Statio; Gateway to Scandinavia; Germany; Gourmet Pantry; Grand Floridian Beach Resort; Grand Prix Raceway; Great Southern Craft Company; Green House; Hall of Presidents; Haunted Mansion; Heidelberger's Deli; Hilton; Horizons; Hospitality House; Hot House; Hotel Plaza Boulevard; Howard Johnson; I-4; If You Had Wings; Interstate 4; It's a Small World; It's A Small World After All; Italy; Japan; Journey Into Imagination; Jungle Cruise; Keel Boats; Kennel Club; KinderCare; King Stefan's Banquet Hall; Lake Bryan; Lake Buena Vista; Lake Buena Vista Village; Lake Mable; Liberty Square; Liberty Tree Tavern; Lite Bite; Little Lake Bryan; Little Lake Bryan Drive; Live Oak Lane; Mad Tea Party; Magic Kingdom; Magic Kingdom Drive; Magnolia Golf Course; Main Street Railroad Station; Main Street U.S.A.; Meadow Traiding Post; Mexico; MGM Studios; Mickey & Company; Mickey's Character Shop; Mile Long Bar; Mission to Mars; Monorail Station; Morocco; Mr. Toad's Wild Ride; Norway; Odyssey Restaurant; Palm Drive; Palm Golf Course; Pecos Bill's Cafe; Peter Pan's Flight; Pickett Suite; Pinocchio Village Haus; Pioneer Hall; Pirates of the Caribbean; Pleasure Island; Polynesian Village Resort; Pottery Chalet; RCID Fire Department; Reams Riad; Reedy Creek; Resort Wear Unlimited; River Country; Riverboat Landing; road map; Royal Plaza; Sachet In; Sassy's; Sawyer, Tom; Settlement Traiding Post; Seven Seas Drive; Seven Seas Lagoon; Shoe Time; Showcase Plaza; Sir Edward's Haberdasher; Snow White's Adventure; South Lake; Space Mountain; Spaceship Earth; SR 535; SR 536; Starjets; Sun Bank; Swiss Family Treehouse; The American Adventure; The Land; The Living Seas; Tom Sawyer Island; Tom Sawyer Rafts; Tomorrowland; Tomorrowland Terrace; Topiary Lane; Town Square; Town Square Cafe; Toys Fantastique; Trail Blazer Corral; Tropical Seranade; U.S. 192; United Kingdom; Universe of Energy; Village Gifts and Sundries; Village Ice Cream Parlour & Bake Shop; Village Lake; Village Lounge; Village Restaurant; Village Spirits; Viscount; Vista Boulevard; Vista United Telecommunications; Walt Disney World; Walt Disney World Village; Wedway Peoplemover Station; West Wilderness Road; Windjammer Dock Shop; World Drive; World of Motion; World Showcase Lagoon; World Showcase Promenade
Oral History of Henry A. Martin
Tags: basic training; Bologna; boot camp; Carroquino; Emilia-Romagna; Germany; Gia Lai; Good Conduct Medal; Gyeongsangbuk-do; Instructor of the Month; Italy; Martin, Henry A.; Moorgrund; Mungyeong; ORD. ENG.; Ordinary Engineer; Pennsylvania; Rhgraben; Sayre; Sergeant 1st Class; Sergeant First Class; Sgt. 1st Class; Sgt. First Class; South Korea; U.S. Army; Veterans of Foreign Wars; VFW; Vietnam
Oral History of Charles Lewis Hite
Tags: 1st Combat Evaluation Group; 340th Bomb Squadron; 7th Air Division; 97th Bomb Wine; 97th Bomb Wine- 340th Bomb Squadron; Barksdale AFB; Barksdale Air Force Base; Blyheville AFB; Blyheville Air Force Base; Cambodia; Commendation Medal; Desert Storm; DET 1 8th Air Force (SAC) Central Command; Europe; First 2nd LT Radar Navigator; Germany; Hite, Charles Lewis; Hoar; HQ Strategic Air Command; Kallina, Edmund; MacDill AFB; MacDill Air Force Base; Meritorious Service Medal; Offutt AFB; Offutt Air Force Base; radar navigator; Ramstein AFB; Ramstein Air Force Base; SAC HQ; Schwarzkopf; Standardization/Evaluation Radar Navigator; Thailand; U.S. Air Force; UCF; University of Central Florida