Month: August 2024
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The Neuhammer Stuka Disaster, August 15, 1939.
Image: Junkers Ju87 B-1, the variant involved in the Neuhammer accident and the primary equipment of Stuka units for the first year of the war. August 15, 1939. The Junkers 87 Stukas of I/StG 76 were briefed to put on a dive bombing demonstration for a group of generals near Neuhammer in present-day Świętoszów, Poland,.…
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The Largest POW Escape of World War II: The Cowra Breakout. August 5, 1944.
Image: Cowra POW Camp, 1 July 1944. Japanese POWs practising baseball near their quarters several weeks before the Cowra Breakout. The photograph was taken for the Allied Far Eastern Liaison Office, with the intention of using it in propaganda leaflets to be dropped over Japanese-held islands and Japan itself. More than 1,000 Japanese men were…
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Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky Guillotined by the Nazis in Berlin. August 4, 1944.
On August 4, 1944, Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky was guillotined by the Nazis at Ploetzensee prison in Berlin. She began working for the French Resistance in late 1940. Arrested in Paris in late 43, she was sentenced to death in Arras in May 1944 and then deported to Germany.
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The Gulf War: August 2, 1990
Image: A destroyed Iraqi tank rests near a series of oil-well fires during the Gulf War, on March 9, 1991, in northern Kuwait. August 2, 1990, Iraqi forces invade Kuwait. 168 days later, a U.S.-led international coalition will launch Operation Desert Storm, the massive military campaign to drive Saddam Hussein’s army out of the tiny…
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Rear-Admiral Nelson Triumphant at the Battle of the Nile, August 1, 1798.
Image: The Destruction of L’Orient at the Battle of the Nile George Arnald, 1827. On August 1, 1798, Horatio Nelson defeated a French fleet at the Battle of the Nile. The clash left Napoleon’s 45,000-man Armée d’Orient stranded in Egypt with no way to return home. The Battle of the Nile was fought between the…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 