British 7th Black Watch crosses the Rhine.  Largest operation in Pacific War when 1,500 US Navy ships bombard the Japanese island of Okinawa. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits General Bernard Montgomery’s headquarter [ … ]

Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die.  Flight Sergeant Nicholas Stephen Alkemade, a rear gunner in a Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster heavy bomber, survived a fall of 18,000 [ … ]

German counterattack against U.S. forces in Tunisia.

Some 2,500 Jews of Lublin, Poland massacred or deported.   Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean.  The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California.

Arab League forms with adoption of a charter in Cairo Egypt.  U.S. 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein, Germany.  

Over 600 U.S. 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin.  American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his 12th combat mission leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin.

Dutch work week extended to 54 hours.  Obligatory work for woman ends in Belgium.  Nazi SS Police Chief Hanns Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children in Netherlands.

1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa.   Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany.  Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower postpones the invasion of southern France until after the invasion at Normandy.

Another assassination plot on Adolf Hitler is foiled.  

Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk, Russia.

U.S. 70th Infantry Division and 7th Armor Division attack Saar, Germany.

Bus falls off bridge into Passaic River NJ, killing 16 people.  Mount Vesuvius, Italy, erupts.  

German submarine U-384 was bombed by British aircraft & sunk southwest of Iceland.

U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated the Philippines at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, told reporters in Terowie, Australia “I came out of Bataan, and I shall [ … ]