Audio Clip: 1939-08-27 CBS HV Kaltenborn Reports On The Eve Of War in Europe
Today in WWII History
World War II History for August 27
1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
1941 - Japanese prime minister requests a summit meeting with FDR in hopes of preventing their campaign in China from escalating into a world war.
1943 - Japanese evacuate New Georgia Island in the Pacific.
1945 - B-29s made first supply dropping mission to WWII POWs in China.
1945 - American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II.
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