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1944: Death of Japanese Admiral Mineichi Koga – Commander of the Most Powerful Japanese Fleet

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|Date: March 31, 2020
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1944: Death of Japanese Admiral Mineichi Koga – Commander of the Most Powerful Japanese Fleet

Japanese admiral Mineichi Koga was killed on this day in 1944. At the moment of his death, he held the po ...

Japanese admiral Mineichi Koga was killed on this day in 1944. At the moment of his death, he held the position of the supreme commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Combin ...

March 31, 2020
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1944: Nazis Secretly Occupied Hungary

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1944: Nazis Secretly Occupied Hungary

On this day the German Army secretly took positions in Hungary. Namely, Hungary was, since before World W ...

On this day the German Army secretly took positions in Hungary. Namely, Hungary was, since before World War II, a signatory of the so-called Tripartite Pact, and an ally of the Third Reich. Way back i ...

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1945: One of the Most Famous War Photographs in History Taken

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|Date: February 23, 2020
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1945: One of the Most Famous War Photographs in History Taken

On this day the iconic photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, the battle according to which ...

On this day the iconic photograph of raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, the battle according to which Clint Eastwood made the film Flags of Our Fathers, was taken. This is one of the most famous w ...

February 23, 2020
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1944: Americans Bomb the Netherlands and Kill more than a Thousand Innocent Civilians by Mistake

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|Date: February 22, 2020
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1944: Americans Bomb the Netherlands and Kill more than a Thousand Innocent Civilians by Mistake

On this day U.S. bombers flew from England to Germany and on their way, allegedly by mistake, dropped bom ...

On this day U.S. bombers flew from England to Germany and on their way, allegedly by mistake, dropped bombs on the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede, and Deventer. The Netherlands were at that ...

February 22, 2020
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Did you know an American scientist named H. O. Whitnall proposed a plan to bomb Japan’s volcanoes?

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|Date: December 29, 2019
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Did you know an American scientist named H. O. Whitnall proposed a plan to bomb Japan’s volcanoes?

By 1944 it became obvious the tide was turning against Imperial Japan in World War II. However, the Japan ...

By 1944 it became obvious the tide was turning against Imperial Japan in World War II. However, the Japanese troops fought fanatically and it looked like the Allies were going to take severe casualtie ...

December 29, 2019
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1904: Nazi Physician Ernst-Gunther Schenck

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1904: Nazi Physician Ernst-Gunther Schenck

Nazi physician Ernst-Günther Schenck, known for having spent the last days of World War II in Hitler's co ...

Nazi physician Ernst-Günther Schenck, known for having spent the last days of World War II in Hitler's command bunker in Berlin, was born on this day in 1904. His accounts of the events that transpire ...

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1882: Wilhelm Keitel – Commander of the Wehrmacht

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|Date: September 22, 2019
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1882: Wilhelm Keitel – Commander of the Wehrmacht

Wilhelm Keitel, one of Hitler's highest-ranking military commanders, was born on this day in 1882. He hel ...

Wilhelm Keitel, one of Hitler's highest-ranking military commanders, was born on this day in 1882. He held the rank of Field Marshal in the armed forces of the Third Reich, and was also chief of the G ...

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1957: Admiral Toyoda – Last Commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy

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1957: Admiral Toyoda – Last Commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Japanese admiral Soemu Toyoda – the last commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy, died on this d ...

Japanese admiral Soemu Toyoda – the last commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy, died on this day in 1957. Imperial Japan's massive navy was formally abolished after World War II and was nev ...

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