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This Day in WWII 10-25-1939 - 1944


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1939: U-boats sink four more British ships.

1942: Germans capture two more streets in Stalingrad with severe losses. The last German offensive in the Caucasus begins.

1942: Montgomery switches the attack to the North. Rommel breaks off his sick leave to take charge of the critical situation in which the axis forces now find themselves.

1943: The Japanese open the infamous Burma to Siam railway, which was built with forced British and commonwealth POW labour.

1944: Russians troops take the German base of Kirkenes in Norway.

1944: The Red Army completes its capture of Transylvania in northwestern Romania.

1944: The first suicide air (Kamikaze) attacks occur against U.S. warships in Leyte Gulf. By the end of the war, Japan will have sent an estimated 2,257 aircraft. "The only weapon I feared in the war," Adm. Halsey will say later.

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