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America in Bremerhaven, 1958 Two ships with the same name. SS America alongside the new aircraft carrier USS America at Newport News, c. 1964. America's postwar career was successful, if uneventful. Finally, it was able to sail the New York-Cobh-Le Havre–Southampton route that had been delayed by World War II
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
May 2 May 2 Latvia Components of the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, south of Schwerin, Germany c. 4,500 Karl Burk May 2 May 2 Germany/ France/ Other All forces in Berlin, Germany 480,000 (470,970 Germans, 30 French and 9,000 other foreigners) General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling: May 2 May 2, at 6:00 PM Germany
USS Enterprise (CV-6), the most decorated naval vessel in World War II, played a vital role in the Pacific. At the decisive Battle of Midway, it sank enemy warships, including three carriers.
The British historian Antony Beevor views the beginning of World War II as the Battles of Khalkhin Gol fought between Japan and the forces of Mongolia and the Soviet Union from May to September 1939. [9] Others view the Spanish Civil War as the start or prelude to World War II. [10] [11] The exact date of the war's end also is not universally ...
SS America (1898), a passenger and package steamer serving Duluth, Minnesota, Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Isle Royale. SS America (1905), originally the Hamburg America Line liner Amerika seized by the United States in 1917; served as a troop transport in World War I; transferred to the United States Shipping Board; eventually assigned to United ...
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ⓘ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany.
June 21–22, 1942 – Bombardment of Fort Stevens, the second attack on a U.S. military base in the continental U.S. in World War II. September 9, 1942, and September 29, 1942 – Lookout Air Raids, the only attack by enemy aircraft on the contiguous U.S. and the second enemy aircraft attack on the U.S. continent in World War II.