World War II History
1940 - The Soviet Union took control of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
1951 - General Henri-Philippe Petain died at age 95. Petain had been convicted of collaboration with German occupiers of his country during World War II and was sentenced to life in prison.
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| "No amphibious attack in history had approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore." General Dwight Eisenhower - July 1943 (Sicily) |