Washington, D.C. • September 11, 1941 Starting on September 1, 1941, 2 years into the Battle of the Atlantic, U.S. warships began escorting convoys of eastbound merchantmen from the North American coast. Convoys departed from Newfoundland, Canada, and ended in the mid-Atlantic at the Danish dependency of Iceland, the halfway point to ports in the British…
Off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands • August 8, 1942 A United States naval task force carrying Maj. Gen. Archibald Vandegrift’s First Marine Division arrived off Guadalcanal, in the eastern Solomon Islands, on the morning of August 7, 1942, and launched Operation Watchtower, the first American offensive of World War II. Two days later the Marines had captured the…
Potsdam, Germany • July 21, 1945 The “Big Three” Allies opened their victors’ conference on July 17, 1945, in an undamaged suburb 15 miles/24 kilometers from Berlin, the German capital. Two dramatic unconditional surrenders by the heads of Germany’s armed forces a week after the April 30 suicide of German dictator Adolf Hitler had encouraged the government heads of the…
Dachau, Germany • July 16, 1946 On this date in 1946, at the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau about 20 miles northwest of the Bavarian capital of Munich, a U.S. military tribunal convicted all 73 men on trial in the Malmedy Massacre case; 43 were sentenced to death by hanging and the rest were given long…
San Francisco, California • July 15, 1945 On this date in 1945 the USS Indianapolis, a fast Portland-class cruiser in California for repairs, received orders to pick up some special cargo at Hunters Point (predecessor name for the now-closed San Francisco Naval Yard). Eleven days later, on July 26, Indianapolis unloaded her mysterious cargo—a large crate…
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Bucharest, Romania • June 27, 1940 On this date in 1940 Red Army troops invaded Romania in the wake of Romanian King Carol II’s refusal to cede the eastern territories of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union (see map). These territories, once part of Czarist Russia and Austria-Hungary before 1918, had been assigned to…
RAF Scampton Airfield, Lincolnshire, England • June 20/21, 1943 On this date in 1943 a Royal Air Force bomber task force of Avro Lancasters took off from Scampton and several other Lincolnshire airfields on a mission to bomb a German radar-antenna factory at Friedrichshafen on the northern shore of Lake Constance (German, Bodensee) in the…
Sainte-Mère-Église, Liberated France • June 5, 1944 On this date in 1944 the stolid citizens of Sainte-Mère-Église, located near the center of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, France, retired to their beds on the eve of the largest air- and seaborne invasion in history—Operation Overlord. As early as 1942, U.S. military planners had been eyeing…
Berlin, Germany • May 12, 1941 On this date in 1941, two days after Deputy Reich Fuehrer Rudolf Hess had embarked on his historic “peace mission” to England (see story below), Adolf Hitler finally confirmed June 22 as the start date for Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa), the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Moving toward the…