U.S. forces land on Corregidor, complete capture on March 3rd. Venezuela declares war on Nazi Germany.
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1943-02-16
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill contracts pneumonia. Withdrawing Afrika Korps reaches Mareth-line in North Africa. Sign on Munich facade: “Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!” done by “White Rose” student group [ … ]
1942-02-16
German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery. Bangka Island massacre: Japanese soldiers machine-gun 22 Australian Army nurses and 60 Australian and British soldiers and crew members from two sunken ships. Only one [ … ]
1944-02-15
891 British bombers attack Berlin. Attack begins at Monte Cassino monastery, Italy.
1943-02-15
Women’s camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid.
1942-02-15
German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery. Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra. British ruled Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.
1945-02-14
British and Canadian forces reached the Rhine River in Germany. Second day of the bombing of Dresden, Germany by Allied Air Forces. Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in [ … ]
1944-02-14
Anti-Japanese revolt on Java. Carl Wick publishes “Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing”.
1943-02-14
German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia. Soviets recapture Rostov: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1942-02-14
Japanese parachutists land near oil center in Palembang, Sumatra. Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore. Rotterdam’s Maas tunnel opens.
1945-02-13
Allied planes begin bombing Dresden, Germany; a firestorm results and over 22,000 die. Pieter Gerbrandy’s Dutch government refuses Dutch Jews the right to buy. USSR captures Budapest after a 49-day battle with [ … ]
1943-02-13
German assault on Sidi Bou Zid, Tunisia. General Dwight D. Eisenhower visits front. The Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was officially established.
1942-02-13
Hitler’s Operation Sealion (or Sea Lion), Nazi Germany’s code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain, was cancelled.
1945-02-12
San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference.
1944-02-12
Republican Wendell Wilkie enters U.S. Presidential race.