Month: July 2024
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Known Olympians Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War.
Now that the Paris Olympics have started, here is a short piece on just some of the 403 known Olympians who lost their lives during the Second World War. Géo André was a French track and field star whose first Olympics were those of London in 1908 and who, despite being badly wounded in the…
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Yalta Conference, February 1945.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in February 1945 to discuss their joint occupation of Germany and plans for postwar Europe. Behind them stand, from the left, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, General of the…
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July 26, 1943: ‘Battle of the Pips’.
Image: The battleship USS Mississippi pictured in 1945. A veteran of the First World War, she had been extensively modernized and served throughout the Pacific, primarily as a shore bombardment vessel.
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July 26,1944, Balabac Strait – Philippines
26 July 1944 Balabac Strait – Philippines On her third patrol, the US Navy submarine USS Robalo (SS-273) strikes a mine and rapidly sinks. Four of her crew managed to swim to Palawan Island. One of them is the skipper, Lieutenant Commander Manning Kimmel, the son of Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Pacific…
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FREE ARTICLE – The Battle of the Hills of Champagne, April 1917.
Image: French Zouave Captain holding a wounded German soldier at gunpoint at Mt. Cornillet during the Battle of the Hills, May 1917..On April 17, 1917, the Battle of the Hills of Champagne began, also called the Third Battle of Champagne, a supporting offensive to the main French effort on the Chemin des Dames of the…
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Madeleine Riffaud – July 23, 1944.
“Resistance is attacking those that are stronger than you. Terrorism is for the weak.” 80 years ago, on July 23, 1944. “I had to shoot a German NCO on the Solférino bridge in Paris.Well, he went down like a sack of wheat. He uttered no cry. Maybe he was a good guy, maybe he was…
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Ariadna Scriabina: French Resistance Hero
Toulouse, France – Saturday, 22 July 1944 Ariadna Scriabina (Knout) and two other French Resistance members go to 11 rue de la Pomme, an apartment used as a dead drop in the city of Toulouse. She is carrying false identification papers for other Resistance members. What they do not know is that French Milice is…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 