Donster Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 1938: In a move that increases tensions between the United States and Japan, the USS President Coolidge is forced to unload nearly $3 million worth of gold and silver before it is allowed to leave the Japanese controlled port of Shanghai. 1940: Hitler meets Petain at Montoire, which leads ‘to agreement in principle of collaboration’, but Petain rejects the idea of a Franco-German military alliance. 1940: British Summer Time to be continued throughout winter. 1941: Army Group South takes Kharkov and Belgorod. 1942: U-boat control in France creates wolfpack 'Battleaxe'. This will operate in the North Atlantic until it is disbanded on the 1st November 1942 and will include at one time or another U-134, U-203, U-409, U-509, U-510, U-572, U-604 and U-659. 1942: The land battle begins in earnest around Henderson Field, with the elite Japanese 2nd Division being wiped out. 1943: The Red Army achieves a breakthrough on the Dnieper river and captures Melitopol. 1943: An E-boat attack on a convoy off the Norfolk coast result in four E-boats being sunk and one British trawler. 1944: The aircraft carrier USS Princeton is sunk by a single Japanese plane during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. 1945: Vidkun Quisling is executed in Norway by firing squad. 1945: The United Nations formally comes into being with twenty-nine ratification's having been received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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