Today in
World War II History
World War II History
1937 - Adolf Hitler ordered a ban on all hydrogen zeppelin flights.
1943 - U.S. forces landed on the Aleutian island of Attu. The Americans took the island from the Japanese 19 days later.
1944 - A major offensive was launched by the allied forces in central Italy.
1946 - The first American CARE packages sent to postwar Europe arrived at Le Havre, France.
1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009 - John Demjanjuk was deported from the U.S to Germany. He was a suspected Nazi death camp guard.
| "Singapore... could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men... its not considered possible that the Japanese...would embark on such a mad enterprise." Winston Churchill - 1940 |
