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Second World War: At the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank commander Michael Wittmann destroyed around 30 Allied veh
Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began the first air raid of its strategic bombing campaign against the J
Second World War: The Royal Navy submarine HMS Seraph began Operation Mincemeat to deceive Germany about the upcoming in
Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queens
Second World War: The Royal Air Force's "Dambusters" squadron embarked on an attack on German dams using bouncing bombs
Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coa
Eight German Junkers Ju 88s shot down British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 over the Bay of Biscay off the coa
World War II: The Royal Air Force began Operation Bellicose, a four-day shuttle-bombing mission that included raids on G
World War II: Captured French general Henri Giraud escaped from German captivity in the Königstein Castle
World War II: German and Italian forces began a large-scale counter-insurgency operation in occupied Yugoslavia
Second World War: In retaliation for the Royal Air Force's bombing of Lübeck, the Luftwaffe began a series of air raids
Second World War: Japanese forces began an invasion of Tulagi and nearby islands in the British Solomon Islands, enablin
World War II: Aircraft from Imperial Japanese Navy vessels attacked Allied naval forces, beginning the Battle of the Cor
World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor
World War II: The Axis launched a major counteroffensive, turning the tide of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
World War II: The crews of three Japanese submarines scuttled their vessels and committed suicide after entering Sydney
World War II: The Battle of Midway, a major battle of the Pacific War, began with a massive Japanese offensive on Americ
On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank (pictured) began keeping a diary during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in
Boris Kidrič and Edvard Kardelj founded the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation, the main anti-fascist Slovene civil-