The IBRD was established with the original mission of financing the reconstruction efforts of war-torn European nations following World War II, with goals shared by the later Marshall Plan.
Those operations were of such a scale that they must be regarded as one of the significant American military efforts of the war.
But in October 2010, he was formally recognized for organizing one of the greatest rescue efforts of World War II when the Army awarded him a bronze star in a ceremony at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan.
At the end of WWI, the Young Turks responsible for killing as many as 1.5 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were, despite the best efforts of the war's victors, never brought to justice.
Mass production of penicillin was part of the greater war effort of World War II, when the drug was used widely by military populations and by some small civilian populations.
e Includes bombing, civilian WRTs, WRTs by occupational forces, war effort, prisoner of war.
Nonetheless, in culmination of these efforts, Indian prisoners of war from France, Turkey, Germany, and Mesopotamia especially Basra, Bushehr, and from Kut al Amara were recruited, raising the Indian Volunteer Corps that fought with Turkish forces on many fronts.
By 1950, the Depression's gloom had been banished by the common effort of World War II, followed by immense postwar demand for American production.
His rescue was, according to Stars and Stripes, "the biggest U.S. air rescue effort of the war".
Like other U.S. States, Minnesota made its contributions to the effort of World War II in wartime manufacturing and other areas.
Krugman noted that the effort of World War II helped end the Great Depression, and joked that something similar was needed today.
