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Monday, January 31, 2011
January 31
Sunday, January 30, 2011
January 30
On January 30, 1943 the British RAF launched a massive bimbing raid on Berlin. This attack would be the first of many until the end of the war. The Garmans were celebrating Hitler's teb year anniversary of his rise to power. German head of propoganda Joseph Goebbles and head of the Luftwaffte Herman Goring were making radio morale boosts for the German masses that night. they were explaining how Stalingrad would be the final battle before final victory. The RAF launched the bombing raid at the same time as the radio broadcasts. To add insult to injury the Germans were forced to surrender to the Russians in Stalingrad.
Berlin after an RAF bombing raid. |
AGerman soldier surrendering to a Runssian soldier in Stalingrad. |
Saturday, January 29, 2011
January 29
Friday, January 28, 2011
January 28
On January 28, 1945 the 717 mile long road from Lashio, Burma to Kumming in southwest China was reopened by the Allies for a supply road. The road was called "Burma Road." The road was made by the Japanese in 1937, but blocked off due to combat threats.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
January 27
On January 27, 1943, the 8th Air Force made the first bombing run against the Germans targeting the Wilhelmshaven port. Of 64 planes, 53 made it to and hit their target. 22 German planes were shot down in the attack and three American planes were shot down.
Also the Russian Red Army broke through the German siege line after 900 days of being trapped in the city of Leningrad. this battle cost many Russian lives.
Also the Russian Red Army broke through the German siege line after 900 days of being trapped in the city of Leningrad. this battle cost many Russian lives.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
January 26
On January 26, 1945 American Lt. Audie Murphy was wounded in France.
Also the Soviets liberated the concentration camp network in Auschwitz, Poland. This finally revealed the horrors happening in the concentration camps. There were also 40 smaller "satellite" camps surrounding the main camp. there were actually three different camps in the Auschwitz complex.All three were run by Josef Mengele, nicknamed "The Angel of Death." Auschwitz II, at Birkenau, there were 300 barracks, "bathhouses" or gas chambers, corpse cellars, and cremation ovens. The Red Army freed over 7,000 survivors from the camp.
Also the Soviets liberated the concentration camp network in Auschwitz, Poland. This finally revealed the horrors happening in the concentration camps. There were also 40 smaller "satellite" camps surrounding the main camp. there were actually three different camps in the Auschwitz complex.All three were run by Josef Mengele, nicknamed "The Angel of Death." Auschwitz II, at Birkenau, there were 300 barracks, "bathhouses" or gas chambers, corpse cellars, and cremation ovens. The Red Army freed over 7,000 survivors from the camp.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
January 25
On January 25, 1942 Thailand declared war on the Allies. Thailand had been conquered by the Japanese on Decmber 8, 1941. The Japanese had help though from Thailand's Prime Minister Lang Pipul. Pipul wanted to share in the spoils of the Axis powers once they had overthrown China. As the war came to a close Pipul stayed loyal to Japan. Not a good plan.
Monday, January 24, 2011
January 24
On January 24 German General Friedrich von Paulus commander of the 6th army in Stalingrad, Russia, requests permission from Adolf Hitler to surrender to the Russians. Hitler refused.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
January 23
On January 23, 1941 Charles A. Lindbergh appeals to the House of Foreign Affairs Committee on the Lend-Lease Act. He suggests to the committee that negotiations are made with Hitler to form nuetrality with Germany. His earlier denunciations of "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt Administration" as instigators to the United States' involvement in the war cost him his support of other isolationists. Eventually in 1941 Roosevelt denounced Lindbergh publicly which caused him to resign as aviator from the Air Corps Reserve. He eventually returned to the Air Corps and contributed to the war effort. He flew 50 combat missions over the Pacific.
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