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Post by Whizz_Bang on Sept 30, 2004 14:00:03 GMT -5
1946 - An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Sept 30, 2004 14:08:29 GMT -5
Peace in our time... The British Prime Minister is hailed as bringing "peace to Europe" after signing a pact with Germany.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 1, 2004 13:46:05 GMT -5
1st October 1943 - Naples was captured by the Allied forces during World War II.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 2, 2004 3:04:03 GMT -5
1940 - During World War II, the HMS Empress was sunk while carrying child refugees from Britain to Canada.
1941 - Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
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Post by Tiny on Oct 3, 2004 6:54:52 GMT -5
3 OCTOBER 1943 Launch of the successful 'Rice' offensive in China by Japanese forces
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 4, 2004 7:09:04 GMT -5
On this day in 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower distributes to his combat units a report by the U.S. Surgeon General that reveals the hazards of prolonged exposure to combat. "[T]he danger of being killed or maimed imposes a strain so great that it causes men to break down. One look at the shrunken, apathetic faces of psychiatric patients...sobbing, trembling, referring shudderingly to 'them shells' and to buddies mutilated or dead, is enough to convince most observers of this fact."
On the basis of this evaluation, as well as firsthand experience, American commanders judged that the average soldier could last about 200 days in combat before suffering serious psychiatric damage. British commanders used a rotation method, pulling soldiers out of combat every 12 days for a four-day rest period. This enabled British soldiers to put in 400 days of combat before being deleteriously affected. The Surgeon General's report went on to lament the fact that a "wound or injury is regarded, not as a misfortune, but a blessing." The war was clearly taking a toll on more than just men's bodies.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 5, 2004 12:11:07 GMT -5
5th October 1942 - Joseph Stalin sent a telegram to the German/Soviet front at Stalingrad. The message was "That part of Stalingrad which has been captured must be liberated."
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 6, 2004 10:58:12 GMT -5
6th October
1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1944 - Former French premier and Vichy collaborator Pierre Laval tried to kill himself on the day he was to be executed for treason. A physician saved Laval from the cyanide he had taken. Laval was executed a little less than two weeks later.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 10, 2004 6:34:53 GMT -5
10th October 1938 - Nazi Germany completed its annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 11, 2004 11:52:12 GMT -5
11th October 1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 12, 2004 11:43:58 GMT -5
October 12th 1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced that Italian nationals in the United States would no longer be considered enemy aliens.
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Post by Bonkers on Oct 12, 2004 13:25:46 GMT -5
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Post by Guv on Oct 12, 2004 13:46:41 GMT -5
Who bought Whizz that WW2 War Diary book???
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 14, 2004 11:42:21 GMT -5
errr its off the top of me 'ed honest.....
[glow=red,2,300]www.on-this-day.com [/glow]
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 14, 2004 11:44:21 GMT -5
14th October
1933 - Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.
1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow.
1944 - During World War II, the Second British Parachute Brigade liberated the city of Athens.
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