Today in WWII History
World War II History for March 31
1941 - Germany began a counter offensive in North Africa.
1948 - The Soviets in Germany began controlling the Western trains headed toward Berlin.
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Eisenhower talks with 101st Airborne troops June 5, 1944, before they launch D-Day. (Full Size)
Fighter squadrons fly over Navy vessels on their way to invade Germany (Full Size)
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Today in WWII History
World War II History for March 28
1933 - In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1941 - The Italian fleet was defeated by the British at the Battle of Matapan.
Cunningham leads fateful British strike at Italians
Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British Fleet, commands the [...]
Today in WWII History
World War II History for March 27
1933 - About 55,000 people staged a protest against Hitler in New York City.
1941 - Tokeo Yoshikawa arrived in Oahu, HI, and began spying for Japan on the U.S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
1942 - The British raided the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire, France.
1944 - [...]
1) What was the code name for the teams of Allied agents parachuted behind German lines prior to the Normandy invasion of D-Day?
A Juneaus
B Jedburghs
C Johnnies
D Jerries
2) What was the common name of the German JU-87?
A Stuka
B Junker
C Gotha Go
D Heinkel
3) Canada on D-Day:
A Jasper
B Joker
C Jellyroll
D Juno
4) Which one of [...]
Today in WWII History
World War II History for March 26
1938 - Herman Goering warned all Jews to leave Austria.
1942 - The Germans began sending Jews to Auschwitz in Poland.
1945 - The battle of Iwo Jima ended.
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Today in WWII History
World War II History for March 25
1941 - Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact.
A unified nation of Yugoslavia, an uneasy federation of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, was a response to the collapse of the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires at the close of World War I, both of which [...]
A WWII Hero: Butch O’Hare
World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant Commander Butch O’Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific. One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized [...]
WWII Doolittle raider dead at 95
SALEM, Ore., March 24 (UPI) — Jacob DeShazer, a participant in the famous Doolittle raid over Japan during World War II, has died at his home in Oregon at the age of 95.
DeShazer was in the last B-25 to depart from the carrier Hornet for a daylight bombing run that [...]
HMS Ark Royal (91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War and was torpedoed on 13 November 1941 by the German submarine U-81. She was designed in 1934 to meet the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty, and was built by Cammell Laird and Company, Ltd. at [...]
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