Thursday, January 25, 1945 Sea War Baltic – GREATEST EVACUATION IN HISTORY: 1,500,000Â – 2,000,000 German troops and civilians rescued by May 8 from East Prussia, Pomerania and Courland in […]
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Thursday, January 25, 1940 Occupied countries Poland – ‘Goring-Frank Circular’: all material resources and manpower to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich (copies of this top-secret
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Wednesday, January 24, 1945 Sea War Indian Ocean: British Pacific Fleet carriers attack Pladjoe and Soengi-Gerong oil refineries at Palembang, Sumatra (January 24 and 29): Pladjoe plant severely damaged and
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Wednesday, January 24, 1940 Finland Winter War: Fierce fighting northeast of Lake Ladoga. Finns repel all attacks.
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Tuesday, January 23, 1940 Home Fronts Britain: Large number of road accidents in the ‘black-out’ necessitates reduction in speed limit from 30 mph (ca. 48 km/h) to 20 mph (ca.
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Tuesday, January 23, 1945 Russian Front Konev‘s forces reach river Oder on 64-km front. Zhukov captures Bromberg. Himmler takes personal command of ‘Army Group Vistula‘. Home Fronts France: Charles Maurras,
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Monday, January 22, 1945 Sea War North Sea: German E-boats attack convoy north of Dunkirk. German 8th S-boat Flotilla penetrates into Thames Estuary.
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Monday, January 22, 1940 Finland Winter War: Finnish authorities announce the formation of a Foreign Legion, including British volunteers.
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Sunday, January 21, 1904 Air War Finland: Finnish Blenheim bombers raid Kronstadt naval base, near Leningrad (today St Petersburg). Russians bomb Oulu, northwest Finland. Sea War North Sea: RN destroyer
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Sunday, January 21, 1945 Russian Front East Prussia: Rokossovsky captures Tannenberg.
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Saturday, January 20, 1945 Russian Front 3rd Belorussian Front (CherniaÂkhovsky) captures Tilsit, East Prussia. Politics Armistice between ProÂvisional National Government (Communists) of Hungary and the Allies: war declared on Germany
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Saturday, January 20, 1940 Politics Britain: Churchill broadcasts appeal to neutral States to join Britain and France in resisting Nazi aggression. He compares their timid conduct with the crocodile’s victims
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Friday, January 19, 1940 Finland Winter War: Heavy fighting continues on three fronts. 45 °C (81 °F) of frost recorded. Sea War Destroyer HMS Grenville mined and sunk off Thames Estuary. Neutrals
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Friday, January 19, 1945 Russian Front Konev takes Cracow. Air War Europe: Red Air Force flies 30,000 sorties against communications and airÂfields. Pacific: B-29 Superfortress destroy Kawasaki aircraft factory near
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Thursday, January 18, 1940 Home Fronts Britain: Five workmen killed in series of explosions at Waltham Abbey explosives factory.
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