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1945: Private Eddie Slovik became the only U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion. (MORE INFO)
1945: Two of Zhukov's armies establish a bridgehead on the Oder, to the North of Küstrin and less than 40 miles from Berlin. ... |
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... River in the eastern Ukraine, more than 250 miles to the West of Stalingrad. Hitler orders no surrender in Stalingrad. The offensive by the Soviet Trans-Caucasian Front toward the Kuban bridgehead is stopped at Novorossiysk and Krasnodar.
1943: Fighting in Papua is officially reported as over.
1943: President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill c... |
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... Berlin.
1942: The Red Army encircles several German divisions of the German II Corps at Demyansk near Lake Ilmen. German troops of Army Group B recapture Feodosiya and seal off the Soviet bridgehead at Kerch in the Crimea.
1942: General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan.
1943: A wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the United Sta... |
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1945: Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front continues its attacks South of Warsaw from two Vistula bridgeheads, one of which holds 400,000 men and 1,700 tanks. Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front begins its offensive from its Narev bridgehead against Elbing ... |
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... Red Army begins an offensive to restore the land communications with the encircled city of Leningrad. The Germans abandon a 300 miles salient in Caucasus and withdraw towards the Kuban Bridgehead. The Red Army gains several more streets in the bloody battle for Stalingrad.
1943. január 12-én Don War. 208000 magyar katonából csak 88000 élte túl és a többségük némi szeren... |
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1943: German troops invade Leros by sea and drop 500 paratroops.
1943: The Russians take Zhitomir in Ukraine. The Kiev bridgehead is now 95 miles deep and 150 miles wide.
1944: Speculation over Hitler mounts as Himmler reads his procl... |
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... Liebehenschel, then divides up the vast Auschwitz complex of over 30 sub-camps into three main sections.
1944: The German First Army HQ leaves Metz as the U.S. Third Army gains three bridgeheads over the Moselle.
1944: Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.... |
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... daylight raid on Wilhelmshaven with 600-fighter escort. At night the RAF drop over 2,000 tons of bombs on Düsseldorf in 27 minutes.
1943: A massive Russian offensive from Dnieper bridgehead North of Kiev erupts.
1943: Heavy USAAF air attacks begin on Rabaul.
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1944: The Canadians take Zeebrugge, the last corner of occupied Belgium, on Channel coast. The Canadian 2nd Division withdraws from a 700yd deep bridgehead in Walcheren. All eligible Germans are ordered to enroll in Volksturm on pain of court-martial.... |
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1944: The British reach the river Mass, south of Rotterdam and establish a bridgehead. The Canadians reach Walcheren.
1944: 25 Mosquitoes make a highly successful low-level attack on the Gestapo HQ in Aarhus, Denmark, killing 200 Gestapo offici... |
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