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8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends during the War in the Pacific

8th May 2022
Tagged as: Aircraft, Allies, America, Australia, Battle of the Coral Sea, Japan, Navy, Operation MO, USA, War in the Pacific

The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.

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26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima officially ends

26th March 2021
Tagged as: America, Japan, Marines, Second World War, USA, War in the Pacific

At 9am on the 26^th March 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as US Marines officially secured the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during the War in the Pacific.

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6th August 1945: The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

6th August 2020
Tagged as: Aircraft, Atomic Bomb, Bomb, Japan, Second World War, USA, War in the Pacific

On the 6^th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay.

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8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends during the War in the Pacific

26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima officially ends

6th August 1945: The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

8th February 1904: Russo-Japanese War triggered by Japanese torpedo attack on Port Arthur

7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609 crashes at Munich-Riem airport

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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