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This Day In History

Aug 6, 2020Aug 2020

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August 6, 1945 Paul Tibbets, the commander of Enola Gay, drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. It was the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, that induced the Japanese to surrender. Enola Gay: Pilot's-eye View: ...

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Apr 20, 2020Apr 2020

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75 years ago: Nazi Germany on the brink as Soviet Army enters Berlin This week in April 1945, it became clear that the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler was being militarily defeated and overthrown, as it suffered a series of ...

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This Day In History

Apr 10, 2020Apr 2020

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75 years ago: Nazi regime on brink of defeat as defense of Berlin abandoned On April 10, 1945, the US air force dealt a decisive blow to the German Luftwaffe, wiping out almost half of its assault force and rendering it ...

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This Day In History

Apr 1, 2020Apr 2020

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75 years ago: US military launches land invasion of Okinawa On April 1, 1945, the United States’ Tenth Army launched a land invasion of Okinawa, the small but strategically critical southern Japanese island, in one of the ...

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This Day In History

Mar 19, 2020Mar 2020

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75 years ago: Hitler signs “Nero Decree” On March 19, 1945, amid rapid Allied advances into Germany, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler issued a decree entitled “Demolitions on Reich Territory.” Dubbed the “Nero Decree” ...

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This Day In History

Mar 12, 2020Mar 2020

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March 12 in regards to Nazi Germany and World War II 1933 President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side. 1938 German troops enter Austria without firing a ...

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This Day In History

Mar 9, 2020Mar 2020

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75 years ago: US firebombing of Tokyo kills 100,000 Japanese On the night of March 9, 1945, the US Air Force began firebombing Tokyo with a force of hundreds of bombers. The attack was a war crime, calculated to inflict maximum ...

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This Day In History

Feb 25, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by altschmerz

75 years ago: Soviet Red Army secures a series of victories over the Nazis This week in February 1945, the Soviet Union’s Red Army won a series of significant victories over German troops occupying Eastern Europe. The Nazi defeats...

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This Day In History

Feb 17, 2020Feb 2020

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75 years ago: US and Japan fight in Battle of Iwo Jima On February 17, 1945, the US Navy and Marine Corps launched a massive assault on Iwo Jima, a volcanic island about 1,300 kilometers due south of mainland Japan, in ...