Diary February 20, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, February 20, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns repulse heavy attacks across frozen river Taipale.
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Diary February 20, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, February 20, 1945: Air War Germany: 900 B-17 Fortress blast passenger station and marshalling yards at Nuremburg. 700 escort fighters (23 lost) strafe locomotives, rolling stock, parked
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Diary February 19, 1915
Diary for Friday, February 19, 1915: Sea War North Sea: Norwegian tanker Belridge torpedoed without warning (by U16) but towed into Folkestone. Aegean: Anglo-French bombardment of Dardanelles outer forts (72
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Diary February 19, 1940
Diary for Monday, February 19, 1940: Politics Sweden: King Gustav re-affirms his determination to remain neutral in Russo-Finnish conflict: ‘from the first hour I informed Finland that she unfortunately could
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Diary February 19, 1945
Diary for Monday, February 19, 1945: Sea War Pacific – AMERICANS LAND ON IWO JIMA (Operation Detachment): 4th and 5th Marine divisions employed. Sergeant John Basilone, first enlisted US marine
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Diary February 18, 1915
Diary for Thursday, February 18, 1915: Neutrals Italy: Anti-Austrian demonstrations at reopening of Parliament. Western Front Champagne: French repel five night counter-attacks and capture 2 redoubts until next day. Vosges:
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Diary February 18, 1940
Diary for Sunday, February 18, 1940: China Sino-Japanese war – Battle of Nanning: Japanese forced to withdraw from city after heavy fighting. Sea War Atlantic – Operation Nordmark: Battlecruisers Gneisenau
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Diary February 18, 1945
Diary for Sunday, February 18, 1945: Western Front Ardennes: US 3rd Army breaks through Siegfried Line, northwest of Echternach. Russian Front East Prussia: General Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky, commander of 3rd
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Diary February 17, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, February 17, 1915: Eastern Front Bukovina: Austrians retake Czernowitz. Air War North Sea: 2 Zeppelins (L3 and L4) wrecked in crash-landings on neutral Danish coast. Dardanelles: HMS
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Diary February 17, 1940
Diary for Saturday, February 17, 1940: Politics US President Roosevelt sends Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State, on ‘fact-finding’ tour of Europe and appoints Myron C. Taylor as his ‘personal representative’
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Diary February 17, 1945
Diary for Saturday, February 17, 1945: Home Front Britain: World Trades Union Conference in London.
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Diary February 16, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, February 16, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Disabled Soldiers and Sailors Employment Comittee formed, Merchant Sailors War Injuries Compensation on February 18. Russia: Enemy citizens’ property confiscated. Western
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Diary February 16, 1940
Diary for Friday, February 16, 1940: Sea War Atlantic: RESCUE FROM THE ALTMARK. Boarding party from destroyer HMS Cossack rescue 299 British merchant navy personnel from German supply ship Altmark
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Diary February 16, 1945
Diary for Friday, February 16, 1945: Air War Pacific: US PARATROOPS TAKE CORREGIDOR (Philippines). Germany: 263 USAAF bombers attacking Kiel and dropping 559 t of bombs. Sea War Pacific: 1,000
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Diary February 15, 1915
Diary for Monday, February 15, 1915: Eastern Front Poland: Gallwitz occupies Plotsk on Vistula, beats Russians and attacks Przasnysz fortress on February 17. German XXI Corps marches 22 miles (ca.
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Diary February 15, 1940
Diary for Thursday, February 15, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finnish forces withdraw to second line of defenses in Mannerheim Line (operation completed February 17).
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Diary February 15, 1945
Diary for Thursday, February 15, 1945: Air War Germany: Dresden, Magdeburg and Cottbus attacked by 1,000 bombers of 8th USAAF. Western Front Canadians now hold 16-km front along West Bank
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Diary February 14, 1915
Diary for Sunday, February 14, 1915: Air War Eastern Front: IM heavy bomber Kievsky of the EVK drops 600 bombs on Polish Plotsk rail station, 1st of 100 daylight raids
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Diary February 14, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, February 14, 1940: Politics Finnish Note (circularize to many foreign governments) accuses Russia of adopting ‘illegal’ methods of warfare, inc. indiscriminate bombing of unprotected towns, hospitals and
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Diary February 14, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, February 14, 1945: Russian Front Pomerania: Zhukov captures Schneidemühl. Western Front Canadians repel four counter-attacks in Reichswald sector. Air War Europe: 8th USAAF completes Allied ‘triple blow’
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