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Second World War: British troops began their withdrawal from the Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, ending the…
World War II: The Soviet Red Army completed the Tallinn offensive, driving German forces out of Estonia.
World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai.
A four-day air battle over Taiwan ended with a decisive American victory, destroying hundreds of Japanese aircraft…
The Guatemalan Revolution began with a small group of army officers led by Francisco Javier Arana and Jacobo Árbenz…
The Guatemalan Revolution began with a small group of army officers led by Francisco Javier Arana and Jacobo Árbenz…
World War II: Fulfilling a promise he made two years previously, General Douglas MacArthur landed on Leyte to begin…
World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded, making the city the first on German soil to be captured…
World War II: The Japanese battleship Musashi, one of the heaviest and most powerfully armed ever constructed, was…
Heinrich Himmler ordered a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a nonconformist youth group that assisted army…
USS Tang, the U.S. Navy submarine credited with sinking more ships than any other American submarine, sank when it was…
Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming in
Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queens
Second World War: The Royal Air Force's "Dambusters" squadron embarked on an attack on German dams using bouncing bombs
Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coa
Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coa
World War II: The Royal Air Force began Operation Bellicose, a four-day shuttle-bombing mission that included raids on G
The aircraft carrying Władysław Sikorski, prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, crashed off Gibraltar,…
World War II: The Battle of Saipan concluded after a mass Japanese suicide attack was repelled by American forces.