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The aircraft carrying Władysław Sikorski, prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile, crashed off Gibraltar,…
World War II: The Battle of Saipan concluded after a mass Japanese suicide attack was repelled by American forces.
World War II: German and Soviet forces engaged each other at the Battle of Prokhorovka (tanks pictured), one of the…
World War II: Operation Fustian, an Allied operation to capture the Primosole Bridge in Sicily, was launched.
The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
The Grand Council of Fascism voted a motion of no confidence against Benito Mussolini, who was arrested the same day…
As the Surprise Hurricane struck Texas, a United States Army Air Forces pilot made the first reconnaissance flight…
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
World War II: The Wehrmacht launched Case Blue, a strategic German offensive to capture oil fields in the south of the S
A downed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero was discovered on Akutan Island, Alaska; it was later rebuilt and flown to…
World War II: The 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment was converted from a battalion to accommodate a larger number of…