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An exhibition of Russian photos - all taken by Russian photographers - from World War II called “People Who Won the War” to be shown at Lee College’s McNulty-Haddick Complex Art Gallery. The Nazis completely destroyed 1,710 Soviet cities and towns and 70,000 villages, which left 25 million people homeless. Among the armed forces in WWII, Russia suffered the most casualties, with 6.1 million deaths. The next largest number of casualties were born by Germany with 3.3 million; China with 1.3 million; Japan with 1.3 million; US with 407,000; UK with 357,000; and Italy with 136,000.
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At the outbreak of the war the United States had a total population of about 7,700,000 people. A series of border forts garrisoned by very small Regular Army detachments stretched along the Canadian boundary: Fort Michili-
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The WWII radio broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow are now regarded as high points in the history of journalism, vivid examples of how the spoken word can bring home events of infinite horror and complexity from thousands of miles away. But when it came to preserving Murrow's scripts from that time, few people had the foresight or the luck to think of history. Some materials were lost when the Germans bombed CBS offices in London. When war came, he immortalized himself for his detailed, emotional radio broadcasts from London during the German air raids, with bombs often exploding in the background.
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