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What is red?
He was the last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient when he died in 2022.
Who was Hershall "Woody" Williams?
Prisoners of war from these two countries were housed at the Greenbrier during the war.
What are Germany and Italy?
BB-39, the USS Arizona is still at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Also sunk at the time was the USS West Virginia. This was the West Virginia's official designation.
What was BB-48?
He became president when Roosevelt died in 1945.
Who is Harry S. Truman.
The deck of this battleship when the Japanese surrendered to General Sutherland.
Where is on the USS Missouri?
Children often spent time after school and on weekends collecting these types of materials.
What are recyclables?
Who was Robert Femoyer?
When the Army took over the resort in 1942, they renamed the Greenbrier this medical facility.
What was Ashford General Hospital?
While the USS West Virginia served guard duty in Tokyo Bay, this ship hosted the surrender ceremony on her decks.
What was the USS Missouri (BB-63)?
This pilot became an Ace in a day when he shot down five German fighters on a single mission.
Who was Charles "Chuck" Yeager?
Where is the (North) Atlantic?
Posters depicting Japanese or Germans as caricatures are examples of this type of government advertising.
What is propaganda?
What is posthumously?
This WWII general and future president was a guest at the Greenbrier following his return to the US in 1945.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Refloated at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the Wee-Vee was fully restored in this Pacific coast state (Go Seahawks!)
What is Washington?
He was the first Axis dictator to be removed from power when Partisans captured and publicly executed him in April 1945.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
When MacArthur famously proclaimed, "I shall return."
Where is the Philippines?
This government agency was erected to control inflation and keep prices at March 1942 levels.
What was the Office of Price Administration (OPA)?
Two Medal of Honor winners earned their medals by throwing themselves onto these explosive devices to save their comrades.
What are hand grenades?
Camp Ashford, a facility built on the grounds of the Greenbrier, was located in this picturesque West Virginia town.
What is White Sulfur Springs?
The USS West Virginia was hit by one aerial bomb and seven of these submerged missles.
What are torpedoes?
He was the president who gave December 7, 1941 its infamous nickname.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Germans and Italians were housed here, on the grounds of the Greenbrier Resort.
Where is Camp Ashford?
What was twelve million?
This Solomon Islands winner was the only Medal of Honor winner to earn his medal in 1943.
What was Herbert Thomas?
Troops trained at the resort in preparation for mountain combat in this mountainous southern European nation.
What was Italy?
The USS West Virginia was awarded five of these ship awards for her service during the war.
What are battle stars?
Hitler committed suicide on this date in 1945. Auf Wiedersehen, Mein Herr!
What is April 30, 1945.
Where General Eisenhower recovered upon his return to the US following WWII.
Where was Ashford General Hospital?
This "gem" of a West Virginian was held by Japanese as a prisoner of war in the Philippines, during which time she earned two bronze stars for bravery.
Who was Ruby Bradley?
The last Medal of Honor winner from West Virginia was Corporal Melvin Mayfield, who earned his citation on the island of Luzon, in this south Pacific country.
What is the Philippines?
The US Army took control of the Greenbrier in this year, America's first full engagement in the war, and turned it into a hospital and internment camp.
When was 1942?
The USS West Virginia was a battleship, slower, but more lethal than the USS Reuben James, a destroyer, a class of naval vessel designed to hunt these elusive ships beneath the waves.
What are submarines?
This leader was the real power in Japan, despite his merely mortal status.
Who was Hideki Tojo?
Where President Truman ordered the second nuclear bomb delivered.
Where is Nagasaki, Japan?