During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

During World War II, through February 1945, when Turkey was neutral for most of the length of the conflict, the Dardanelles were closed to the ships of the belligerent nations.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

During the time of Nazi Germany ( 1933 – 1945 ), the Nazi Party enjoyed particular popularity and support among the town's population.

During the siege of February 1945 the city infrastructure was 65 % destroyed, including most of the historical city center.

During the period of 1945 – 1950, the government adopted policies which were intended to consolidate power.

* 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U. S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

During World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ) the Rock was again turned into a fortress and the civilian residents of Gibraltar were evacuated.

During the summer of 1945, a Soviet cipher clerk had reused a one time pad to transmit intelligence traffic.

During the Japanese occupation of Hainan ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Li suffered heavily.

During 1945, Friedman submitted Incomes from Independent Professional Practice ( co-authored with Kuznets and completed during 1940 ) to Columbia as his doctoral dissertation.

During the German occupation of 1939 – 1945, Poznań was incorporated into the Third Reich as the capital of Reichsgau Wartheland.

During World War II, Bearden joined the United States Army, serving from 1942 until 1945.

During the Second World War ( 1939 – 1945 ) Nazi Germany effectively enslaved many people, both those considered undesirable and citizens of countries they conquered.

During wartime the National Council ( 1939 – 1945 ) was established to represent the legislature as part of the Polish Government in Exile.

During the Japanese occupation of Korea ( 1910 – 1945 ), all facets of ethnic Korean identity were banned or suppressed.

During 1901 Baudot's code was modified by Donald Murray ( 1865 – 1945 ), prompted by his development of a typewriter-like keyboard.

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

During the Continuation War, Kekkonen served as director of the Karelian Evacuees ' Welfare Centre from 1940 to 1943 and as the Ministry of Finance's commissioner for coordination from 1943 to 1945, tasked with rationalising public administration.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

During his aggressive campaign to win his present position, Mr. Kennedy was vitriolic about this country's `` prestige '' abroad.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

During the period from 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, the Medical Museum was required to move to Temporary Building `` S '' on the Mall from Chase Hall.

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

During his presidency, the company's physical plant was enormously expanded, and the length and breadth of the Brown & Sharpe machine tool line became the greatest in the world.

During World War 2,, he was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

During the war it was in constant use by the wagon trains transporting supplies from the railhead at Grafton to the troops operating in the interior.

During Oersted's attendance at the university, it was poorly equipped with physical apparatus for experimenting in the sciences.

During the latter procedure the temperature was maintained at 2-degrees-C by surrounding the apparatus with ice.

During summers, business was so brisk that Mrs. Wilcox had two assistants and a messenger.

During the Brown trial, however, the state's most powerful Democratic newspaper, the Providence Daily Post, stated that Brown was a murderer, a man of blood, and that he and his associates, with the assistance of Republicans and Abolitionists, had plotted not only the liberation of the slaves but also the overthrow of state and federal governments.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

During the Civil War, Custer, who achieved a brilliant record, was made brigadier general at the age of 23.

During the first administration of Bienville, the peltry trade of the Mobile district was a lucrative source of revenue.