Allied troops liberate Basket-Compascuum, Netherlands. Nazi SS burns & shoots 1,100 at Gardelegen, Germany. U.S. captures Tsugen Shima. U.S. soldiers liberate the notorious Nazi concentration camp at “Buchenwald” in Germany. U.S. troops captures German cities [ … ]
Event Type: Key Events of WW II
1944-04-11
The Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the census bureau in The Hague.
1943-04-11
Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft.
1942-04-11
U.S. Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal established.
1945-04-10
Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany. Canadian troops capture Deventer, Netherlands. General Johannes Blaskowitz becomes Nazi leader of “Fort Holland”. German troops attack Ijsselbrug, Netherlands. NFL’s Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers [ … ]
1944-04-10
“Patrolling the Ether”, a short film made in 1944 depicting amateur radio operators aiding the Federal Communications Commission in monitoring the airwaves for Nazi spy transmissions, is shown on 3 TV [ … ]
1943-04-10
Twelve (12) Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape Nazis. General Bernard Montgomery’s troops occupy Sfax, Tunisia.
1942-04-10
Cigarettes & candy are rationed in Holland.
1945-04-09
German Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel, Germany. Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360. The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends. National Football League [ … ]
1944-04-09
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical “Orientals Ecclesiae”.
1942-04-09
Some 75,000 Philippine and American defenders on Bataan surrendered to Japanese troops, who forced the prisoners into what has become known as the Bataan Death March; thousands died or were killed [ … ]
1945-04-08
Nazi occupiers are executed – Nazi General Friedrich Christiansen flees Netherlands. 1945 NFL Draft: Charley Trippi from University of Georgia is first pick by Chicago Cardinals.
1943-04-08
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate [ … ]
1942-04-08
Arnold Schoenberg & Tudor’s ballet “Pillar of Fire” premieres in NYC.
1945-04-07
U.S. B-17s bomb range at Luneburg, Germany. U.S. planes intercepted and effectively destroyed a Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide mission and sink the superbattleship Yamato & four destroyers.