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 [...]
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World War II History for November 3
1941 - Japanese Ambassador John Grew warned that the Japanese may be planning a sudden attack on the U.S.
1941 - The order is given: Bomb Pearl Harbor
On this day in 1941, the Combine Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In 34 days time, [...]
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World War II History for October 20
1942 - Pierre Laval told the French labor that they must serve in Germany.
1944 - Allied forces invaded the Philippines. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur landed on the island of Leyte fulfilling his promise to return to the area where he was forced to flee in [...]
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World War II History for October 19
1943 - The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began in Russia during World War II. Delegates from the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, the U.S., and China met to discuss war aims and cooperation between the nations.
1943 - Chinese and Suluks revolt against Japanese in North Borneo
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World War II History for October 18
1942 - Vice Admiral William F. Halsey replaced Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley as commander in the South Pacific.
The man nicknamed “Bull” by the press began his military career as a destroyer commander during World War I. Halsey was made a captain at the age [...]
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World War II History for October 11
1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.
The battle for Guadalcanal began in August, when [...]
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World War II History for October 7
1940 - German troops entered Romania. Hitler’s plan was to have a single easter front against the Soviet Union. Romania had allied itself with Nazi Germany on July 5, 1940.
As early as 1937, Romania had come under the control of a fascist government that bore [...]
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World War II History for September 26
1944 - Operation Market-Garden failed when thousands of British and Polish troops were killed in an attempt to seize bridges in the Dutch town of Arnhem.
British Gen. Bernard Montgomery conceived an operation to take control of bridges that crossed the Rhine River, from the [...]
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World War II History for September 18
1941 - German bombers killed more than 1,000 Russians when they bombed Leningrad.
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur moved his command headquarters to Tokyo.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo, as he prepares for his new role as architect of a democratic and [...]
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World War II History for September 14
1944 - Americans launch Operation Stalemate-at extraordinary cost
On this day in 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division lands on the island of Peleliu, one of the Palau Islands in the Pacific, as part of a larger operation to provide support for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who [...]
