Today In World War II

Today In World War II - January 25

Today In World Two - January 25 - U-Boats sink 4 ships in one day; Japanese slaughter 1,700 Chinese civilians; Japanese land on Lae, New Guinea; Soviets cut German pocket in two in Stalingrad; the Soviets encircle 60,000 Germans; Germans evacuate 2 million troops from East Prussia. Enjoy!

Today In World War II -January 26

Today In World Two - January 26 - A Royal Navy passenger ship hits a mine and sinks; British troops take Derna, Libya; the first American troops arrive in the UK; Stalin announces his troops had killed 1.2 million Germans; Audie Murphy wins the Medal of Honor. Enjoy!

Today In World War II - January 27

Today In World Two - January 27 - German U-boats sink 4 merchant vessels in one day; Allies turn an attack into a fiasco off of Dutch East Indies; 8th Air Force bombs Wilhelmshaven; Soviets relieve siege of Leningrad; General Lucas sits in Anzio with his thumb up his butt; Germans evacuate Luft Stalag III; Auschwitz is liberated by the Soviets. Enjoy!

Today In World War II - January 28

Today In World Two - January 28 - Finns score a large bounty of weapons from the Soviets; RAF Ace Tuck receives the DSO; Adolf Garland gets 94 victories; British destroy convoy of Italian minesweepers; a POW escapes Colditz Castle; Kesselring counterrattacks at Anzio; US Sergeants defend their Jewish comrades. Enjoy!

Today In World War II - January 30

Today In World Two - The first U-boat of the war is sunk by an aircraft; Japanese begin the Siege of Singapore; Japanese win the Battle of Rennel Island; Germans destroy a Ranger battalion at Anzio; daring US raid frees 500 American POWs; soviet sub sinks a German passenger ship; Albert Speer tells HItler the war is over. January 30 - Enjoy!

Today In World War II - January 31

Today In World Two - January 31 - The Soviets gather an unstoppable force on the Mannerheim Line; Free French & British commandos lay siege to Kufra; 200,000 Soviet civilians died so far in Leningrad; USS Yorktown conducts strikes against Kwajalein; 11th Airborne comes ashore in the Philippines - Enjoy!

Today In World War II - February 1

Today In World Two - February 1 - The Soviets fire 300,000 shells at the Finns in Summa, Indian troops capture Metemma & Agordat in East Africa; US carriers strike Japanese at Gilbert Islands; Japanese troops besiege Singapore; Japanese been begin evacuation of Japanese troops at Guadalcanal; Field Marshal von Paulus surrenders in Stalingrad; US Marines invade Marshal Islands; RAF ace Roland Robert Stanford Tuck escapes from Germans. Enjoy!

Today In World War II - February 2

Today In World Two - February 2 -Soviets continue to pressure the Finns in Karelian; Indian troops capture Mehmet & Agordat in East Africa; General O'Connor receives permission to outflank retreating Italians; FDR issues order to inter Japanese-Americans; the Northern pocket in Stalingrad surrenders; Stalin gives Americans permission to use Soviet air fields; Soviets arrest Captain Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Enjoy!

Today In World War II - February 3

Today In World Two - February 3 - First German aircraft shot down over England; Rommel named commander of Afrika Korps; Japanese bomb Port Moresby; Eisenhower names Patton to plan invasion of Sicily; Von Rundstedt orders reprisals against civilians; Allies attempt to break out of Anzio; US troops fight Japanese in Manila. Enjoy!

Today In World War II - February 4

Today In World Two - February 4 - The Balkan Entente declares neutrality; the first Norwegians are sentenced to death; the Allies lose the Battle of Makassar Strait; Japanese massacre 130 Aussie POWs; Brits engineer a coup d'etat in Egypt; the British 8th army enters Tunisia; the British Pacific Fleet arrives in Australia. Enjoy!