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History Date Night: a World War II Podcast
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Welcome to History Date Night; a World War II podcast covering the Second World War in chronological order, from the opening shots to final victory.
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On This Day in WWII - August 19, 1943
This is what a Japanese torpedo did to USS St. Louis during the Battle of Kolombangara.
The cruiser's bow was knocked 12 feet 7 inches off center.
Yet St. Louis survived, returned to the United States, and was repaired.
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Their meeting produced the Atlantic Charter, laying out principles that would help shape the postwar world.
๐ธ Churchill and the crew of Prince of Wales, August 18, 1941.
#WW2 #OnThisDay #WinstonChurchill #AtlanticCharter #History
On This Day in WWII - August 18, 1941
Winston Churchill was heading back to Britain aboard HMS Prince of Wales after his historic meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at the Atlantic Conference.
On This Day in WWII - August 17, 1944
Cherbourg had been liberated nearly two months earlier, but the danger wasn't over.
A captured German ammunition dump in the harbor accidentally exploded, sending a massive cloud of smoke and debris over the port.
On This Day in WWII - August 16, 1945
For those on Okinawa, the news was almost unbelievable
Japan had surrendered
After the bloody Battle of Okinawa, many of these men had expected to fight in the invasion of Japan. Instead, they were celebrating the end of the Pacific War
๐ธ Captured Ju 88 in Sverdlov Square, Moscow.
#WW2 #OnThisDay #EasternFront #Ju88 #Moscow #History
On This Day in WWII - August 15, 1941
Just weeks after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, a captured German Ju 88 bomber was put on public display in the heart of Moscow.
The Eastern Front was still in its opening months, and the outcome was far from certain.
On This Day in WWII - August 12, 1942
Operation Pedestal ships began to enter the harbor, but the fighting continued
HMS Indomitable was badly damaged and burning after an attack as the rear the of convoy continued toward Malta
๐ธ Indomitable on fire with HMS Charybdis nearby
On This Day in WWII - August 10, 1945
Soviet troops entered Dalian in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, advancing rapidly after the Soviet invasion began the previous day.
T-34 tanks rolled into the strategic port as the Japanese Kwantung Army began to collapse.
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On This Day in WWII - August 9, 1944
American B-24 Liberators attacked the Almรกsfรผzitล oil refinery on the Danube in Hungary.
๐ธ Among them was B-24G โFertile Myrtleโ of the 724th Bomb Squadron, photographed flying over the refinery as it burned.
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On This Day in WWII - August 8, 1942
Japanese G4M1 "Betty" bombers attacked Allied shipping off Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
One bomber was shot down during the attack, with its wreckage photographed from the destroyer USS Ellet.
The Guadalcanal campaign had only just begun.
On This Day in WWII - August 7, 1942
USS Nashville bombarded Japanese positions on Kiska Island in Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
Japan had occupied Kiska and Attu earlier that year, bringing World War II onto American soil.
๐ธ USS Nashville bombarding Kiska, August 7, 1942.
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On This Day in WWII - August 6, 1943
Using intelligence from MAGIC codebreaking, six U.S. destroyers ambushed a Japanese reinforcement force in the Battle of Vella Gulf.
Three Japanese destroyers were sunk, while the Americans escaped without a single ship damaged.
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On This Day in WWII - August 5, 1944
The Warsaw Uprising entered its fifth day.
Outgunned but determined, Polish Home Army fighters continued their battle to liberate Warsaw as German forces answered with brutal reprisals against both the resistance and civilians.
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On This Day in WWII - August 4, 1943
The Battle of Orel raged on as Soviet infantry and T-34 tanks pushed against the shrinking German salient.
Just weeks after Kursk, the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front had firmly shifted to the Red Army.
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On This Day in WWII - August 3, 1942
Operation Pedestal began
Escorted by carriers HMS Victorious, Indomitable, and Eagle, the convoy set out to deliver supplies to the besieged island of Malta. The coming days would become one of the Mediterranean's fiercest convoy battles
On This Day in WWII - August 2, 1944
German submarine U-804 torpedoed and sank the destroyer escort USS Fiske in the Atlantic.
Most of the crew was rescued, though 33 sailors were lost, a demonstration that the Battle of the Atlantic was still being fought even after D-Day.
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