Berlin, Germany • March 1, 1935 On this date in 1935 Adolf Hitler appointed World War I air ace Hermann Goering, last commander of the famous “Red Baron” Richthofen Fighter Squadron, to the position of Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief. Goering held the post until the final days of the Third Reich. A faithful Nazi from the earliest days…
Moscow, Soviet Union • November 28, 1942 On this date in 1942, while the Battle of Stalingrad was still being fought, 12 Free French fighter pilots and their ground crews, flying from newly liberated Syria in the Eastern Mediterranean, landed at their Ivanovo training center, 125 miles/201 km northeast of the Soviet capital, Moscow. Earlier in the year,…
In February 1943’s Operation Gunnerside Norwegian saboteurs temporarily crippled heavy-water production crucial to Germany’s atomic weapons program.
Berlin, Germany • February 12, 1945 On this date in 1945 German women were called up for service in the Volkssturm (Home Guard, or national militia). Adolf Hitler was playing his final card in World War II by mobilizing practically every German civilian for an apocalyptic defense of the Third Reich, a 20th‑century Wagnerian Goetterdaemmerung. Nazi…
Berlin, Germany • December 18, 1940 On this date in 1940 in Berlin, one day before receiving the credentials of the new Soviet ambassador to Germany, Adolf Hitler signed Fuehrer Directive 21, Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa), thereby initiating the secret preparations and military operations that led to the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22,…
London, England • November 25, 1944 On this date in 1944 a German ballistic missile slammed into a crowded Woolworths store in London, England, killing 160 civilians and seriously injuring 108 more. The 42‑ft./12.8‑meter-tall, 12‑ton V‑2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, “Retribution [or Vengeance] Weapon 2”) rocket with its 1‑ton payload of high explosives was truly a weapon of mass destruction….
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Tarawa, Gilbert Islands • November 20, 1943 On this date in 1943 the Alligator LVT-1, or Landing Vehicle Tracked‑1, made its first combat debut. Actually, the LVT‑1 saw use in landings on Guadalcanal and the adjacent islands of Tulagi, Tanambogo, and Gavutu over a year earlier, in August 1942, but only as a logistical support…
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Marseille, France • September 29, 1944 On this date in September 1944 three U.S. Liberty cargo ships arrived off the port of Marseille, France carrying the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT), their weapons, and vehicles. The 442nd consisted of Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) volunteers from the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii who had been recruited,…
