Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 20
1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before a international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
The Nuremberg Trials, which took place in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and [...]
Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 19
1940 - Hitler urges Spain to grab Gibraltar
Adolf Hitler tells Spanish Foreign Minister Serano Suner to make good on an agreement for Spain to attack Gibraltar, a British-controlled region. This would seal off the Mediterranean and trap British troops in North Africa.
Read more on the [...]
Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 17
1887 - Bernard Law Montgomery was born in London, England.
Bernard L. Montgomery
Montgomery at El Alamein
1941 - Joseph C. Grew, U.S. ambassador to Japan, cabled the U.S. State Department that he had heard that Japan had prepared a plan to attempt a surprise attack at Pearl [...]
Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 14
1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.
German bombers devastate the English city of Coventry, demolishing tens of thousands of buildings and killing hundreds of men, women, and children. [...]
Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 12
1942 - During World War II, naval battle of Guadalcanal began between Japanese and American forces. The Americans won a major victory.
1944 - During World War II, the German battleship “Tirpitz” was sunk off the coast of Norway.
32 British Lancaster bombers attack and sink the [...]
WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: ‘Let it be known’
By Wayne Drash, Thelma Gutierrez and Sara Weisfeldt
CNN 11/11/08
LOMA LINDA, California (CNN) — Anthony Acevedo thumbs through the worn, yellowed pages of his diary emblazoned with the words “A Wartime Log” on its cover. It’s a catalog of deaths and atrocities he [...]
Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 11
**Veterans Day**
Veterans day marks the end of World War I, commemorating the men and women who serve in the military forces.
1940 - Battle of Taranto
This battle, which took place during WWII, marked the first all-aircraft naval attack in history. The results were definitive, as [...]
General Wladyslaw Sikorski’s body to be exhumed
From The Times
November 11, 2008
The remains of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland’s government-in-exile during the Second World War, will be exhumed to determine whether his death in 1943 was the result of foul play.
Janusz Kurtyka, head of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance, said that the exhumation would [...]
Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 9
1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass.”
1938, Kristallnacht, Jews, Nazi
 |
