2567 results for “World War” — type: events (777 ms)
World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
World War II: The German submarine U-69 (1940) sinks the Canadian passenger ferry SS Caribou approximately 20 nautical miles southwest of Port aux Basques, Newfoundland.
World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel takes place in Ulm, Germany.
World War II: The Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade.
World War II: American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he comes ashore during the Battle of Leyte.
World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
World War II: Captain Bobbie E. Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen.
World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMAS Australia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
World War II: The Nemmersdorf massacre against German civilians takes place.
World War II: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, the first German city to fall to the Allies.
World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.