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spidge · 17-08-2006, 01:39 PM

August 17th

1945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands

1945 Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area

1944 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy

1944 Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy

1944 German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy

1944 Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border

1944 U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans

1944 U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun

1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde

1943 Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies

1943 U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt

1942 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces

1942 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe

1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet

1942 Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-German

1942 U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France

1941 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan

1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission

1940 Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain

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spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,068	Re: Remembering History by day WW2 August 17th 1945 Indonesia (Dutch E Indies) declares independence from Netherlands 1945 Koreas divided on 38th parallel with U.S. occupying the southern area 1944 4th Canadian Armour division occupiers Trun Normandy 1944 Canadian 2nd division conquerors Falaise Normandy 1944 German fieldmarshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy 1944 Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border 1944 U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans 1944 U.S. 320th regiment infantry occupies Chateaudun 1943 498 British bombers attack Peenemunde 1943 Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies 1943 U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt 1942 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces 1942 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe 1942 Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet 1942 Transport nr 20 departs with French Jews to nazi-German 1942 U.S. bombers staged 1st independent raid on Europe attack Rouen, France 1941 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian PM William M King agree to joint defense commission 1940 Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm