World War II History for May 17
1940 – Germany occupied Brussels, Belgium and began the invasion of France.
1941 – German planes bombed British forces in Iraq.
1946 – U.S. President Truman seized control of the nation’s railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen.
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