Despite its long-standing alliance with Britain, Portugal remained officially neutral during World War II, walking a ...

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After Iran’s Parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing’s foreign-affairs spokesperson stressed—in what looked ...

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Illinois was a top-10 oil producing state from 1941 to 1945, producing 470 million barrels of oil, or 6% of overall U.S. production.

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Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.

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