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Armies of the World

China:

Total Land-Based Weapons: 31,300
Tanks: 8,200
Armored Personnel Carriers: 5,000
Towed Artillery: 14,000
Self-Propelled Guns: 1,700
Multiple Rocket Launch Systems: 2,400
Mortars: 16,000
Anti-Tank Guided Weapons: 6,500
Anti-Aircraft Weapons: 7,700

United States:

Total Land-Based Weapons: 29,920
Towed Artillery: 5,178

India:

Total Land-Based Weapons: 10,340
Tanks: 3,898
Armored Personnel Carriers: 317
Towed Artillery: 4,175
Self-Propelled Guns: 200
Multiple Rocket Launch Systems: 150
Anti-Aircraft Weapons: 2,424

Russia:

Total Land-Based Weapons: 79,985
Tanks: 22,800
Armored Personnel Carriers: 9,900
Towed Artillery: 13,585
Self-Propelled Guns: 6,010
Multiple Rocket Launch Systems: 4,350
Mortars: 6,100

North Koreahttp://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=North-Korea:

Total Land-Based Weapons: 16,400
Tanks: 3,500
Armored Personnel Carriers: 2,500
Towed Artillery: 3,500
Self-Propelled Guns: 4,400
Multiple Rocket Launch Systems: 2,500
Mortars: 7,500
Anti-Aircraft Weapons: 11,000

updated 2010-07-16 22:00:44

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, has been confirmed as a survivor of both atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 during World War II.The Associated Press: Japanese man certified as double A-bomb victim (March 24, 2009)

updated 2010-07-18 01:08:54

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Chuck Yeager

Chuck Yeager won the Collier and Machay trophies in 1947 for breaking the sound barrier. In 1953, Chuck Yeager received the Harmon trophy for twice exceeding the speed of sound. He was enshrined into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1973. National Aviation Hall of Fame: Charles Chuck Yeager On December 25, 1975, Chuck Yeager received the Congressional Medal of Honor for Bravery from Gerald Ford.ChuckYeager.org: Congressional Medal of Honor He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985.Medal of Freedom.com: Chuck Yeager In 1990, Yeager was honored by the Aerospace Walk of Honor.Aerospace Walk of Honor: Honorees 1990

updated 2010-07-17 01:37:42

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Australia Trailer

• Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley
• Hugh Jackman as The Drover
• David Wenham as Neil Fletcher
• Bryan Brown as King Carney
• Jack Thompson as Kipling Flynn

updated 2012-05-12 20:01:14

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Anne Frank

• June 12, 1929: Born

• Mar 1933: Nazi party elected to power in Germany

• 1933: Frank family moves to Amsterdam

• June 12, 1942: Anne receives diary as a present from her father

• July 5, 1942: Margot Frank ordered to report to a work camp

• July 6, 1942: Frank family goes into hiding (Secret Annex)

• Aug. 4, 1944: Frank family arrested

• Aug. 7, 1944: Frank family transported to Westerbork

• Sept. 3, 1944: Anne sent to Auschwitz

• Oct. 28, 1944: Anne relocated to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

• March 1945: Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen camp

updated 2010-07-16 21:45:08

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Hideki Tojo

"It is natural that I should bear entire responsibility for the war in general, and, needless to say, I am prepared to do so. Consequently, now that the war has been lost, it is presumably necessary that I be judged so that the circumstances of the time can be clarified and the future peace of the world be assured."

"I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States."

"Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization."

"When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from heaven."

updated 2012-05-02 21:54:31

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Joseph Stalin

• December 18, 1878: born

• 1907: Attends the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

• 1917: Is the editor of Pravda

• 1917-1923: Serves as People's Commisar of Nationalities Affairs

• 1922: Is made General Secretary of the Bolsheviks

• 1930: Writes Dizzy With Success

• 1936-1938: Achieves absolute power during the Great Purge

• 1939: Prepares the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany

• 1940: Katyn Massacre kills 25,000 Polish activists

• 1941: Meets with Winston Churchill and Roosevelt to plan his military strategy

• 1948: Supports the creation of Israel

• 1950: Signs the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship

• March 5, 1953: dies under suspicious circumstances

updated 2012-04-19 18:47:36

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Martin Vogel

Martin Vogel, a veteran of World War II, spent more than 60 years seeking to find the truth behind his brother, Bernard Vogel's death at a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. After reading an article on CNN.com about Anthony Acevedo, a World War II medic who mentioned a Vogel who died in his arms at the Nazi's Berga an der Elster slave camp.

Acevado confirmed rumors to Martin Vogel that his brother had attempted to escape from the camp with a fellow prisoner in early April 1945, though both were caught and forced to stand outside of the barracks for two to three days before collapsing from exhaustion. In a conference call arranged by CNN, Acevedo and another Berga camp survivor, Myron Swack, retold the complete story of Martin Vogel's brother Bernard, and how he eventually perished in Acevado's arms around April 9, 1945, only weeks before the war's end.

updated 2010-07-17 14:50:30

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Raymond Jacobs

• Topix.net: Raymond Jacobs
• Google News: Raymond Jacobs
• ABC News: Death of an Icon: Last Iwo Jima Marine Dies (February 4, 2008)
• Redding.com: Redding Marine Helped Raise First Iwo Jima Flag (February 1, 2008)
  • Jacobs described the flag raising as follows: "Marines on the ground, still engaged in combat, raised a spontaneous yell when they saw the flag...Screaming and cheering so loud and prolonged that we could hear it quite clearly on top of Suribachi...The celebration went on for many minutes...It was a highly emotional, strongly patriotic, moment for all of us."
• San Diego Union Tribune: "Ex-Marine Claims a Piece of History" (Fenbruary 21, 2005)

updated 2010-07-17 19:51:24

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