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The term wartime could refer to:
Richard Yates (January 18, 1818 - November 27, 1873) was wartime governor of Illinois. He was born in Warsaw, Kentucky, and died in St. Louis, Missouri...
Estoril Casino in Estoril, near Lisbon in Portugal, is said to be the largest casino in Europe. During World War II, it was reputed to be a gathering spot for espionage agents, disposessed royals, and wartime adventurers...
Jerry is... a male first name. Ben & Jerry's ice cream Jerry Springer Jerry Seinfeld a cartoon mouse in Tom and Jerry During wartime, 1939-45, British nickname for a German...
A Presumption of Death is a mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers. The novel is set in 1940 wartime England and features Sayer's famous sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, and his wife, detective novelist Harriet Vane...
Fat Man and Little Boy is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. It is named after the nuclear weapons known as Fat Man and Little Boy. It stars Paul Newman as Gen. Leslie R. Groves and John...
The Indian XXXIV Corps did not see any action during World War II. It was formed towards the end of the war to be part of the Fourteenth Army in Operation Zipper, the invasion of Malaya. Since Japan surrendered before the operation could be executed, the corps did not see wartime service. It did...
A man wearing a jacket A jacket is a light coat. A flack jacket is a MILSPEC jacket used by troops in wartime conditions. They were supposed to protect the body from shrapnel much like body armor, but were extremely poor at this. See also: dust jacket, water jacket...
Marcel Ophüls (born November 1, 1927) is a documentary film maker. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Max Ophüls. Filmography Veillées d'armes (a.k.a. The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime ) (1994) (a.k.a. Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie...
Hubert Gregg (July 14 1914 - March 30 2004) was a BBC broadcaster, writer, stage actor, and probably best known for the BBC Radio 2 show Thanks For The Memory , and for writing and performing wartime songs. Born in Islington, London, he worked for the BBC since the 1930s, wrote the wartime hit I'm...
any national election which is heavily influenced by wartime or postwar sentiment. The term was used... resulting in the huge victory of David Lloyd George's wartime coalition government, and the 1945...