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English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point in World War Two. The ambush ...
Bombings of Switzerland in World War II: Allied aircraft accidentally bombed Basel and Zürich. [7] German submarine U-3508 was bombed and sunk at Wilhelmshaven in an Allied air raid. Born: Dieter Meier, musician and conceptual artist, in Zürich, Switzerland; Tommy Svensson, footballer and manager, in Växjö, Sweden
1: German 1st Panzer Division withdraws from the Terek River area in southern Russia to prevent encirclement. [1]2: Americans and Australians recapture Buna, New Guinea. [1]5: Eighteen countries issue a declaration in London stating their determination to "combat and defeat the plundering by the enemy Powers of the territories which have been overrun or brought under enemy control" and to take ...
8 November – World War II: British and American troops invade French North Africa in Operation Torch. 13 November – World War II: Allied troops recapture Tobruk. 17 November – World War II: Admiral Max Horton takes over from Percy Noble as Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, with responsibility for the safety of Atlantic convoys.
The World War II Stories Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg Should Tackle After Masters of the Air , According to a Historian Brooke L. Blower / Made by History January 29, 2024 at 11:12 AM
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
August 7 – WWII: Battle of Guadalcanal begins – The United States Marine Corps initiates the first American offensive of the war with a landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. August 8 – WWII : In Washington, D.C. , six German would-be saboteurs are executed (two others are cooperative and receive life imprisonment instead).
This is a timeline of the events that stretched over the period of late World War II, its conclusion, legal aftermath, with the inclusion of the Cold War, from January 1945 to December 1991. January 1945