In World War Two, we built a thousand ships a year.
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He became king in 1934, led the army during the German conquest of the country in World War Two and abdicated in favor of his son Baudouin in 1951.
If we decide, just like we did in World War Two, if we all said, 'This is our focus, this is our priority, and we're going to win it, we're going to do every thing that we have to do to win it, ' then we'd win it.
Because for me, it was a flame that my father passed on to me, through a brother who served in Vietnam, from his service in World War Two, to my twenty-two years and now we pass that flame on to my nephew, who has already done two tours of duty in Afghanistan.
Throughout a whole century the American people stood liberty's ground not just in one world war but in two.
John Smith, head of Air Traffic Management strategy at Thales, told the BBC that the two issues make a compelling argument for change but admits that not everyone is persuaded that the current system, which has been in use since World War Two, needs an overhaul.
Her father was killed in the first world war and her two brothers in the second.
What changed their minds was the role that long-range bombers played in securing victory during World War Two.
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Ed Koch was drafted at 19 and served in the Army in World War II, earning two battle stars.
This 1955 novel, critics agree, distilled the experience of a generation, laying bare its hollow quest for meaning and purpose in the post-World War Two world of corporate business.
If you know the history of global oil in the years before World War Two, then you realize there is nothing new about America enjoying energy independence as Asia worries about its own needs.
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So I think the worst thing we can do is encourage a process that may result in some sort of trade friction or trade war between the two largest economies in the world.
Franklin Roosevelt devised the concept of Lend Lease, which provided aid to Britain and other nations in the early years of World War II, while on a two-week cruise through the Caribbean in December 1940.
It would eventually oversee the biggest reduction in Canadian government spending since demobilization after World War Two.
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The surge in Two-up's popularity during World War I didn't spark a change.
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Once the site of a daring amphibious raid by Allied troops in the Second World War, the peninsula is now home to two very different refugee camps.
The project was consciously conceived as a way to bring peace to a continent ravaged by centuries of war culminating in the horrors of the two world wars.
By his early thirties he successfully led a fleet of experimental new weapons in World War I - submarines - earning the Distinguished Service Order with two bars.
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In a 1995 two-volume anthology of the best of World War II reporting, done by the Library of America, there are twenty-six dispatches from Pyle, one from Hemingway.
"During the World War II, thousands of aircraft carried two pigeons in case they the plane was downed so they could send messages, " he said.
The contribution reflects Germany's ambition, 56 years after the end of World War Two, to take a more prominent role in world affairs that matches its economic might.
He served for two years in the American army in the second world war and, after graduating (with a brief spell at Oxford), was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency, apparently because of his knowledge of guns.
And members of of the Whitstable Royal British Legion laid a wreath on the unmarked graves of two German airmen who were shot down over Kent in World War II.
Two World War II explosive devices have been dug up in a garden in Plymouth.
Though the two countries are among the poorest in the world, and their war apparently pointless, their governments have scraped up the money to pay for it.
The two organizations were created in the 1940s to oversee post-World War II economic development, with the IMF initially focussing on currency and financial considerations and the World Bank helping to pay for infrastructure in emerging economies.
The versatile light truck was supposed to provide the latest successor to the ubiquitous jeep used by U.S. troops during World War Two, but it has turned into a case study in unhealthy procurement practices, so emergency surgery was necessary.
The airport was shut for two hours on Monday, after the World War II plane came in at 15.30 GMT.
In 1945, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War Two, was arrested on treason charges.
She, of course, is a historic figure who in many ways embodies the depth of the ties between our two nations, dating back, of course, to our shared effort in World War II and throughout the Cold War.
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