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...very moved by the oral histories of the U.S. servicemen aboard the planes that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I hope they know they are heroes. They helped end WW II and ensured that my grandpa and millions of other grandpas would go home instead of invading Japan. It was estimated that an invasion might have caused 1 million Allied casualties. There would be a lot fewer dads and grandpas of ours around today had that taken place...
...notion of battling flu doesn't make people want to join in song and sacrifice. So the challenge is to come up with a name that is more accurate than War on Terror but that doesn't sound like a graduate-level seminar. During WW II, F.D.R. asked citizens for help and was inundated with suggestions--from the "Liberty War" to "Rat Killing." Finally, he accepted that the conflict was, undeniably, another world war. Someday we may have to do the same. --By Amanda Ripley
LUCAS I've got a whole binder full of stuff. Which one I'm going to take on first, I have no idea ... I know I'm going to produce a film about the African-American fighter pilots--the Tuskegee Airmen--during WW II. I've been working on that for 15 years. I've been having a very difficult time getting a script...
Feeling a little nostalgic for communist-era Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Feeling a little nostalgic for communist-era Yugoslavia? Travel back to the '60s in the luxurious Blue Train, the favored vehicle of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the WW II partisan leader and big boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent...