Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. • March 10, 2010 On this date in 2010, 300 surviving members of the all-volunteer Women Airforce Service Pilots accepted Congressional Gold Medals in a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Six-and-a-half decades after the end of World War II, the first women to fly American military aircraft were officially recognized for their…
SHAEF HQ, Versailles, France • March 10, 1945 On this date in 1945 three sets of battles fought during the final stages of the European war ended in Allied victories and marked the beginning of the Allied invasion of Nazi Germany. The Battle of the Reichswald (German, Imperial Forest), known also as Operation Veritable, was…
Bridgend, South Wales • March 10, 1945 Twenty-two miles west of the Welch capital, Cardiff, was a British prisoner-of-war camp built to house mainly German but also some Italian prisoners. Capable of accommodating 2,000 inmates, the camp was called Island Farm. On this date in 1945, 67 POWs (one source says as many as 84 POWs) escaped from…