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Steven Terjeson | January 18, 2010
World War II History for January 18, 1942-Russian launch a fresh offensive, 1942-Burma’s Premier detained by the British, 1943-US commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread, 1944-Soviets arrive at Leningrad ending 3 year Siege.
Steven Terjeson | May 20, 2009
Today in WWII History
World War II History for May 20
20 May 1940 – Germans break through to English Channel at Abbeville, France
In reaching Abbeville, German armored columns, led by General Heinz Guderian (a tank expert), severed all communication between the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the north and the main French army in the south. [...]
Steven Terjeson | January 20, 2009
Today in WWII History
World War II History for January 20
20 JAN 1942 – Nazi officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their “final solution” that called for exterminating Europe’s Jews.
In July 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, had ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler’s number-two man, to submit [...]
Steven Terjeson | December 26, 2008
For this years Christmas story, here is an excerpt from The Lord Louis Mountbatten’s personal diary from Christmas Day (25 DEC 1943) in Delhi, India.
Christmas Day
On the afternoon of Christmas Day the State Agent and all the State servants and our own servants presented us with the customary Christmas gifts or ‘dollis’.
The Scene was very [...]
Steven Terjeson | December 16, 2008
Stilwell’s March from Burma
General Joseph Stilwell in Burma with Gen. Frank Merrill
One of the greatest feats achieved by an American soldier was General Joseph Stillwell’s 140-mile march from Burma, which began May 1 [1942] and terminated in Imphal, Assam, on May 20 [1942]. From the time the heroic band left Wunthe until they reached the [...]
Steven Terjeson | July 8, 2008
Death in the Swamps of Ramree
In the rotting jungles of Burma, WW II war took on a primal kind of savagery that has seldom been witnessed in modern time. The Burmese mangrove swamps of Ramree, filled with every kind of lethal creature and disease, became the enemy as much as any man armed with a [...]
Steven Terjeson | June 12, 2008
The Second World War
The Pacific Theater
1941-1945
First Phase
From 7 December 1941, until June 1942, the Japanese successfully attacked the Pacific Fleet’s base at Pearl Harbor, took Wake Island and Guam, invaded and conquered the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaya, and seized the British base of Singapore. They conquered Burma thereby cutting off China from all overland routes [...]
Steven Terjeson | May 20, 2008
Today in WWII History
World War II History for May 20
1941 – Germany invaded Crete by air. The last of the Allies evacuated on May 31.
1942 – Japan completed the conquest of Burma.
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