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1942: Off the northern coast of Norway, German destroyers sink the British cruiser Edinburgh which was escorting Convoy PQ-15.
1942: The Japanese make landings on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.|... |
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1945: German U-boats sink 8 Allied ships, 3 destroyers and 2 corvettes in the English channel.
1945: The Canadian First Army captures Emden and Wilhelmshaven, while the U.S. Seventh Army takes A... |
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... approximately 10,000 Jews who succeeded in fleeing the Minsk ghetto, more than half survived.
1943: British forces take Sfax, 150 miles South of Tunis.
1943: USAAF bombers sink the Italian cruiser Trieste in raid on Sardinia.
Pontiac Ad - April 1944
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... furiously at Kerch in the Crimea, but there have no success because of the stubborn German defense.
1942: Mahatma Gandhi arrested in India.
1942: Japanese aircraft sink the British carrier Hermes, the destroyer Vampire and three other warships in Indian Ocean.
1942: US-Filipino forces surrender on Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. 78,000 troo... |
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... and sailed the bulk of their fleet to the Maldives, although the armed merchant cruiser Hector and destroyer Tenedos were sunk. Fifty-three Japanese carrier-aircraft did however locate and sink the Royal Navy's heavy cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall, to the south east of Ceylon, in just 22 minutes.
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Április 1.
73 April, MASADA (Eretz Israel)
Roman General Flavius Silva succeeded in breeching the Judean desert stronghold held by Elazar ben Yair. Of the 960 people who took refuge on Masada, only two women and five children survived. The rest chose suicide rather than slavery.
140 USHA (Eretz Israel)
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... Roosevelt orders the government to seize sixty ships belonging to Axis countries that are currently docked in American ports.
1942: The RAF make a second unsuccessful attempt to sink the Tirpitz while in port at Trondheim.
1942: First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
1942: The 6th Chinese Army abandons Toungoo, and fails to des... |
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... Cruiser Pola which is seriously damaged. The Italians decide to withdraw and detach 2 cruisers and 4 Destroyers to assist the damaged Cruiser Pola. However, the British intercept them and sink the Cruiser Pola and its 2 escort Cruisers Zara and Fiume as well as 2 of the escorting Destroyers. British losses total just 2 aircraft.
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... börtönbe vetettek akárkit, besúgásra bírták azokat, akiktől kicsikarták a sápot, azután meg tízszer-hússzor annyiért bocsátották őket szabadon". (Vö. 1917. december 20.)
1940: U-boats sink seven neutral ships.
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... sailing the Arctic route from the Kola Peninsula to Loch Ewe, is attacked off Norway. The steam merchant Empire Tourist is sunk by U-703 for 7,062 gross tons lost. However, the convoys escorts sink 3 U-boats en-route.
1944: Zhukov renews his attacks against the forces of Manstein's Army Group South in the Ukraine.
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