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World War II - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

Electric Boat: From Innovation Trials to WWII Submarine Leadership

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Army-Navy “E” Award Honors Connecticut for Support Against the Axis Powers

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Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White: “No Picture Was Unimportant to Her”

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A New Source of Farm Labor Crops Up in Wartime

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Bradley Airport’s Military Origins

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The Debate Over Who Could Occupy World War II Public Housing in West Hartford

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Colonel Ruth A. Lucas: Literary Advocate

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Boone Guyton Tested the Limits of World-Famous Aircraft

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A Busy Airfield in Bethany

Joseph Alsop: Cunning Political Columnist of Mid-Century America

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Daring World War II Escape of a Bethany Soldier

Papier-Mache Clocks – Who Knew?

“Take Five” with Dave Brubeck

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Road Signs of the Air

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Mounds Candy Bar Involved in Espionage – Who Knew?

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Providing Bundles for Britain and News for America

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A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors

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Chief G’tinemong/Ralph W. Sturges

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The Early Years of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company

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Reporting News of Pearl Harbor – Today in History: December 7

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Cromwell’s Iron Men Made Toys for Boys and Girls

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Connecticut Servicemen in the “Bloody Bucket” Division

Hiram Bingham IV: A Humanitarian Honored for Saving Lives during WWII

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The Vonsiatsky Conspiracy Case

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Ernest Borgnine: Breaking the Hollywood Mold

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Portland’s Guy Hedlund: Actor and Activist

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Leroy Anderson Composed Iconic Music in Woodbury

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The Atheneum Joins War Effort – Who Knew?

Women and Defense: World War II on the Connecticut Home Front

A Connecticut Nazi Spy Has a Change of Heart

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Connecticut Lawyer Prosecutes Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg

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Connecticut’s “Yankee Watch” Squadron Protects the Skies Here and Abroad

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Hometown Hero: Wallingford Remembers Stanley Budleski

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War and the Fear of Enemy Aliens – Who Knew?

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Spring Training Baseball Comes to Wallingford

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A Woman Who Developed Tolerance: Leila T. Alexander

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The Bazooka Changes War – Today in History: June 14

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1929-1964

Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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Danbury Prison Protest – Today in History: August 11

D-Day – Today in History: June 6

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First Human Test of a Nylon Parachute – Today in History: June 6

Southbury Takes On the Nazis

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Connecticut Daredevil Andrew Mamedoff Joins Royal Air Force

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