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World War II History
World War II History
1940 - The French fortress of Verdun was captured by Germans.
1943 - Paul Blobel, an SS colonel, was given the assignment of destroying the evidence of the systematic extermination of European Jews.
1944 - American forces began their successful invasion of Saipan during World War II.
| "Nothing would please me better than if they would give me three months and then attack here." General Douglas Macarthur - Supreme Allied Commander of South-West Pacific - (Speaking of the Philippines) December 5, 1940 |
