Tehran, Iran • November 28, 1943 On November 27, 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt left Cairo for Tehran, Iran’s capital. The Egyptian capital had hosted 2 Western leaders, Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The Cairo Conference, codenamed Sextant, was a feeder conference to a weightier one…
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,…
Moscow, Soviet Union · November 28, 1942 On this date in 1942 twelve Free French pilots and their ground crews, flying from newly liberated Syria in the Eastern Mediterranean, landed at their Ivanovo training center, 125 miles northeast of the Soviet capital, Moscow. Earlier in the year, in March, Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of the…