By the end of WWII all forces had widely introduced unguided rockets using HEAT warheads as their major anti-tank weapon ( see Panzerfaust, Bazooka ).

* November 17 – WWII: To punish protests against the Nazi occupation of the Czech homeland, the Nazis murder 9 Czech graduate students, send over 1200 to concentration camps, and close all Czech universities.

* January 27 – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany ( Wilhelmshaven is the target ).

* March 14 – WWII: British submarine HMS Thunderbolt sunk off Sicily by an Italian corvette, the second time this vessel has been lost with all hands.

* May 24 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, the German battleship Bismarck sinks battlecruiser HMS Hood, killing all but 3 crewmen from a total of 1, 418 aboard the pride of the Royal Navy.

** WWII: Winston Churchill promises all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast: " Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid.

* July 14 – WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms, ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.

** WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

** WWII: General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U. S. forces in the Philippines ; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.

* January 6 – WWII: Winter War: General Semyon Timoshenko takes command of all Russian forces.

* May 22 – WWII: The British Parliament passes a further Emergency Powers ( Defence ) Act, giving the government full control over all persons and property.

* May 24 – WWII: The Anglo-French Supreme War Council decides to withdraw all forces from Norway.

** WWII: Appeal of 18 June: General Charles de Gaulle, de facto leader of the Free French Forces, makes his first broadcast appeal over Radio Londres from London rallying French Resistance, calling on all French people to continue the fight against Nazi Germany: " France has lost a battle.

* September 26 – WWII: The United States imposes a total embargo on all scrap metal shipments to Japan.

General Douglas MacArthur rarely signed a WWII condolence letter personally and all of his letters to families were signed by one of two assistants who tried hard to duplicate his signature but the " forgeries " were distinguished by an unusually high letter " l " and a skinny " D ".

This is equivalent to 1, 400 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in WWII, or one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.

Ybanez purchased a tract of land outside all towns from the state of Texas ( who'd obtained title from the federal government after WWII.

Among the companies using Knight's technology were Avions Voisin, Daimler ( 1909 – 1930s ) including their V12 Double Six, Panhard ( 1911 – 39 ), Mercedes ( 1909 – 24 ), Willys ( as the Willys-Knight, plus the associated Falcon-Knight ), Stearns, Mors, Peugeot, and Belgium's Minerva company that was forced to stop its sleeve-valve line of engines as a result of the limitations imposed on them by the winners of WWII, some thirty companies in all.

In 1945, WWII veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died in World War I.

During WWII all of the administrative positions of the US armed services were filled by psychiatrists.

Another key differentiation between older and modern vessels is that all modern warships are " soft ", without the thick armor and bulging anti-torpedo protection of WWII and older designs.

The U. S. Army and Marines used WP extensively in WWII and Korea for all three purposes, frequently using WP shells in large 4. 2-inch chemical mortars.

During WWII the Swiss authorities forbade all flights from Switzerland.

At the end of WWII and shortly after, Malenkov implemented Stalin's plan to destroy all political and cultural competition from Leningrad / St.

Born in Germany before WWII of a German mother and an American father, Christopher joins the CIA after the war and becomes one of its most effective spies.

Massachusetts-based Hardcore Punk band Defeater has released two full length albums and one EP telling the story of an alcoholic WWII veteran and the trials and tribulations of his family.

On one of those flights, Russell proposed a club to Rube Goldberg and others so the group could still get together after WWII ended.

* August 18 – WWII: Submarine Rasher sinks Teia Maru, Eishin Maru, Teiyu Maru, and carrier from Japanese convoy HI71 in one of the most effective American " wolfpack " attacks of the war.

* April 15 – WWII: King George VI awards the George Cross to Malta to mark the Siege of Malta, saying, " To honour her brave people I award the George Cross to the Island Fortress of Malta, to bear witness to a heroism and a devotion that will long be famous in history ( from January 1 to July 24, there is only one 24-hour period during which no bombs fall on this tiny island ).

* October 26 – WWII: Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands: Two Japanese aircraft carriers are heavily damaged and one U. S. N.

* March 16 – March 19 – WWII: 22 ships from Convoys HX 229 / SC 122 and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic U-boat " wolfpack " attack of the war.

After the WWII, the population of East Prussia was replaced by the Soviet one, mainly by Russians.

Despite this, Le Havre became the location of one of the biggest Replacement Depots, or " Repple Depples " in the European Theatre of operations in WWII.

Presented to Fred Wells as ' project p-57 ' ( this was the plane Wells had taught American pilots to fly during WWII ), Mills stated, " This one will fly.

The two types of courses will usually differ in length ( one to two semesters vs. two to four ), breadth ( many music appreciation courses begin at the late Baroque or classical eras and might omit music after WWII while courses for majors traditionally span the period from the Middle Ages to recent times ), and depth.

The United States Maritime Commission were looking for options to update WWII Liberty ships and heavy duty gas turbines were one of those selected.

In the Pip, Squeak and Wilfred adventures before the start of WWII there were two hairy characters: one was a scheming, plotting, bomb-throwing Bolshevik and the other was his dog.

Bulgaria was one of the rare countries in Europe which saved its 48, 000 Jews during the WWII.

Until about 1930, there was only one building ( part of Bath Road Farm ) on the north side of Bath Road between The Magpies ( an area around and opposite the north exit of the recent Heathrow Road ), and Longford ; other buildings were built afterwards there before WWII, including two factories ( Technicolor and Penguin Books ).

Wymondham played a part in WWII that is very poorly documented, it was home to one of MI5's listening stations.

At the beginning of WWII, there was one street about two blocks long, with only a few business buildings drooping and dwindling along its edges.

Berwick was one of the places where the Stuart tank was produced in WWII.

Three died in childhood and, although seven of their sons served in WWII, only one died in the war.

In the period after the death of Lenin in 1924, Pravda was to form a power base for Nikolai Bukharin, one of the rival party leaders, who edited the newspaper, which helped him reinforce his reputation as a Marxist theoretician. A soldier reading Pravda during WWII.

A suggestion by the RAF that North American switch the P-51's powerplant from its original Allison engine to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine may have been one of the most significant events in WWII aviation, as it transformed the P-51 into what many consider to be the best American fighter of the war.

Tochigi City, being one of the few cities left intact during WWII, still carries a feeling of the past.