Allied troops reoccupied the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia after clashing with German troops.  Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front.

Egypt & Syria declare war on Nazi-Germany.  American soldiers liberated the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese control.  Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.  

Minister of War Juan Perón leads a coup in Argentina.

Major General Omar Bradley flies to Algiers.  Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II.  

The SS Struma, a charter ship attempting to carry nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania to British-mandated Palestine, was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Black Sea, all but [ … ]

U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi where they raised two American flags (the second flag-raising was captured in the iconic Associated Press photograph and the Marine Corps War Memorial [ … ]

Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.

Major General Omar Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh.  German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia.  

The first shelling of the U.S. mainland occurred as a Japanese submarine fired on an oil refinery in Ellwood, California, causing little damage.

Arab League forms (Cairo).  British troops take Ramree Island, Burma.  Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland, Germany.  

US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake – over 800 die.

Pan Am Flight 9035, a Boeing 314 flying boat, crashed while attempting to land in Lisbon, Portugal.  Twenty-five people were killed, 14 survived including actress-singer Jane Froman.  Members of “White [ … ]

President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse.

During the battle for Iwo Jima, the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk by kamikazes with the loss of 318 men.  Dutch Archbishop Johannes De Jong calls for help [ … ]

“War As It Happens” news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only).