Today in
World War II History
World War II History
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1944 - Former French premier and Vichy collaborator Pierre Laval tried to kill himself on the day he was to be executed for treason. A physician saved Laval from the cyanide he had taken. Laval was executed a little less than two weeks later.
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose."
1949 - U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
| "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free." - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Normandy, France, June 6, 1984 |
