US Sherman Tank with Troops Riding during the Battle of the Bulge, World War II
US Trooper manning frozen Jeep mounted machine gun during the Battle of the Bulge, WWII
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Today in WWII History
World War II History for May 30
1942 - Brits bombard Cologne in Operation Millennium
On this day in 1942, a thousand-plane raid on the German city of Cologne is launched by Great Britain. Almost 1,500 tons of bombs rain down in 90 minutes, delivering a devastating blow to the Germans’ medieval city as [...]
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World War II History for May 29
1942 - Adolf Hitler ordered all Jews in occupied Paris to wear an identifying yellow star on the left side of their coats.
On this day in 1942, on the advice of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler orders all Jews in occupied Paris to wear [...]
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World War II History for May 28
1937 - Neville Chamberlain Becomes Prime Minister of England
Chamberlain served as prime minister of the UK from 1937 to 1940. His political legacy is defined by his controversial policy of “appeasement” toward Hitler, which culminated in the Munich Pact in 1938. When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia [...]
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World War II History for May 27
1941 - U.S. President Roosevelt proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” amid rising world tension.
1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
On February 14, 1939, the 823-foot Bismarck was launched at Hamburg. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler hoped [...]
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World War II History for May 23
1945 - Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.
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The following press release is from Footnote.com:
Collection Features More than 80,000 Photos from WWII and Vietnam Now Freely Accessible at Footnote.com
Lindon, UT May 22, 2008 - In commemoration of Memorial Day, Footnote.com today announced their entire collection of military photos will be made permanently free on the [...]
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World War II History for May 22
1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the “Pact of Steel.”
1944 - Operation Chattanooga Choo-Choo began. The plan involved the systematic bombing of railroads in Germany and other parts of northern Europe. Technorati Tags: WWII, WWarII, [...]
The SS Robin Moor was a World War II era Merchant steamship. She was launched in 1919 and sailed under the American flag. In 1941, she was stopped and then sunk by the German WWII U-boat U-69 in the Atlantic Ocean. See more details on the event below.
SS Robin Moor
In May 21, 1941 the first [...]
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World War II History for May 21
1940 - A Nazi “special unit” began murdering more than 1,500 hospital patients in East Prussia. The operation of killing the “unfit” mentally ill patients took 18 days.
Mentally ill patients from throughout East Prussia had been transferred to the district of Soldau, also in East Prussia. [...]
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