Over 800 resistance fighters died before the Free French 2nd Armoured Division led by Captain Raymond Dronne arrived just before midnight on 24 August. On 25 August the US 4th Infantry Division entered the city.
On the surface the pact guaranteed that neither side would fight against the other in war. However a ‘secret protocol’ also outlined how Eastern Europe would be divided between the two countries in the future.
The Atlantic Charter was issued by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he ‘tipped’ a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet fighter.
Bugs Bunny made his first appearance in the Merrie Melodies cartoon A Wild Hare.
Both Hitler and Mussolini were concerned about the risk of the Spanish Civil War escalating into a European-wide conflict, so at first their support for the Nationalists was small-scale and consisted mainly of transporting existing Spanish troops from Morocco to the mainland. As the war progressed their involvement grew.
Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.
Wartime gasoline rationing began in seventeen states.
The explosion was equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT, and the blast-wave was felt by civilians up to 160 miles away.
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
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