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World War II History
World War II History
1942 - James H. Doolittle and his squadron, from the USS Hornet, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities with 16 B-25 bombers.
1942 - The Vichy government capitulated to Adolf Hitler and invited Pierre Laval to form a new government in France.
1943 - Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was shot down by American P-38 fighters.
1945 - American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was 44 years old.
2002 - The city legislature of Berlin decided to make Marlene Dietrich an honorary citizen. Dietrich had gone to the United States in 1930. She refused to return to Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power.
| "We shall fight on the beaches...we shall never surrender." - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940 |
