Tag: World War II
6 article(s) found with this tag.
The Atomic Landscape Seven decades after the first nuclear production facilities were sited at Hanford, we discover the cultural legacy. We sample from poetry, history, and art, as well as a WSU student’s master’s thesis. The Office of Strategic Services, our country's first centralized
intelligence agency, was formed during the Second World War to train
men and women in the arts of sabotage and espionage and then to send
them around the world to protect our nation's interests. Among the many
Washington State College students and alumni who served in that
conflict, five friends and classmates trained together in the OSS, then
went to North Africa, Italy, England, and China to help win the war.
Summer 2012
Categories: Washington state history, History, Poetry
Tags: Hanford, Manhattan Project, Nuclear reactors, World War II, Atomic bomb
A Hidden History
Spring 2012
In 1992, Frank Hirahara ’48 sent his daughter Patti to Yakima to help
his elderly parents pack up their home for their move to Southern
California.What had at first seemed a chore turned into a treasure hunt as Patti
unearthed letters, ...
Categories: Library and museum studies, History
Tags: Photography, World War II, Internment camps, Japanese-Americans
Nicole Braux Taflinger ’66, ’68—Season of Suffering
Spring 2011
Nicole Braux (now Taflinger) was 13 years old when Germany invaded
France in 1940. Years later, having survived the occupation with her
mother, married an American airman, and moved to Pullman, she has
written a lovely and moving memoir.First w...
Categories: Memoirs, Alumni
Tags: World War II, France
Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck ’33—Recognition at last
Fall 2010
In March of this
year, a special Congressional action signed by President Obama awarded
the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, the
“WASPS” ...
Categories: Military sciences, History, Alumni
Tags: Pilots, World War II, Women's Airforce Service Pilots
Carol Edgemon Hipperson - Writing History
Winter 2008
When Carol Edgemon Hipperson was growing up in Coulee City,
the eastern Washington community was too small for a library.
However, every other Thursday during the summer, the Bookmobile
from the North Central Regional Library pulled into town. "I ...
Categories: Alumni, History
Tags: Writers, World War II
Secrets & Spies
Winter 2007
Categories: Alumni, Military sciences
Tags: World War II, OSS, Spies, Espionage