Men like Chisolm and Marquez and the women who kept the economy going are now in their 90s. MORE: Bob Chisolm honored to serve country at D-Day, other historic battles Finally, Imperial Japan, perhaps the fiercest enemy that America has ever faced, was brought to its collective knees with the dropping of two atomic bombs, which set forth a destruction and terror the likes of which have never been seen before or thankfully since. With the Marines, they captured island after island in fierce fighting.
In the Pacific, America rebuilt its crippled Navy and rose to become the most powerful naval fighting force ever to sail the seas. From the east, the Soviet Red Army, under Stalin’s orders of “not one step back,” held firm at Stalingrad and pushed the Nazi war machine back. The invasion of Normandy at D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge put the Nazis on the run from the west. MORE: Ray Marquez remains Marine at heart through three wars and retirementĪmerica and its allies, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, eventually started to turn the tide on the battlefield. The world was changing and World War II was the catalyst. They drove buses, trucks, kept the civilian side of the country moving forward and sowed the seeds of equality of the sexes that would emerge just a few decades later. Women all over the nation stepped forward and took the place of men in the economy, running the factories a la the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter.
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