Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1940: Western Front MANSTEIN PLAN ADOPTED by German Army High Command. Hitler accepts proposal by General von Manstein – backed by Generals von Rundstedt and […]
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Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1945: Philippines Americans crush desperate Japanese resistance in the Intramuros Âold walled quarter of Manila. Air War Germany: Colonel Ivan Kojedub, top scoring Russian (and
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Diary for Friday, February 23, 1940: Home Fronts Britain: 700 officers and men of cruisers Ajax and Exeter march through cheering crowds to London’s Guildhall to celebrate River Plate Battle
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Diary for Friday, February 23, 1945: Pacific Iwo Jima: Marines take Mt Suribachi. Hoisting of US flag captured in classic photograph by Joe Rosenthal. Russian Front Poland – Siege of
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Diary for Thursday, February 22, 1940: Neutrals Tibet: six-year-old Dalai Lama, Jampel Ngawang Lobsang Yishey Tenzing Gyatso (‘Tender Glory, Mighty in Speech, Excellent Intellect, Absolute Wisdom, Holding to the Doctrine,
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Diary for Thursday, February 22, 1945: Air War Europe – OPERATION CLARION: 9,000 Allied bombers and fighters from bases in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Italy attack rail and road
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Diary for Wednesday, February 21, 1940: Secret War Britain: First successful test of cavity magneto at Birmingham University gives Britain unbeatable lead in development of short-wave radar. Finland Winter War:
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Diary for Wednesday, February 21, 1945: Western Front US 3rd Army attacks Saar-Moselle ‘triangle’. Sea War Pacific: Escort carrier Bismarck Sea sunk by Kamikaze planes off Iwo Jima.
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Diary for Tuesday, February 20, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns repulse heavy attacks across frozen river Taipale.
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Diary for Tuesday, February 20, 1945: Air War Germany: 900 B-17 Fortress blast passenger station and marshalling yards at Nuremburg. 700 escort fighters (23 lost) strafe locomotives, rolling stock, parked
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Diary for Monday, February 19, 1940: Politics Sweden: King Gustav re-affirms his determination to remain neutral in Russo-Finnish conflict: ‘from the first hour I informed Finland that she unfortunately could
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Diary for Monday, February 19, 1945: Sea War Pacific – AMERICANS LAND ON IWO JIMA (Operation Detachment): 4th and 5th Marine divisions employed. Sergeant John Basilone, first enlisted US marine
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Diary for Sunday, February 18, 1940: China Sino-Japanese war – Battle of Nanning: Japanese forced to withdraw from city after heavy fighting. Sea War Atlantic – Operation Nordmark: Battlecruisers Gneisenau
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Diary for Sunday, February 18, 1945: Western Front Ardennes: US 3rd Army breaks through Siegfried Line, northwest of Echternach. Russian Front East Prussia: General Ivan D. ChernyaÂkhovsky, commander of 3rd
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Diary for Saturday, February 17, 1940: Politics US President Roosevelt sends Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State, on ‘fact-finding’ tour of Europe and appoints Myron C. Taylor as his ‘personal representative’
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