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Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The War Brides Act was enacted in the United States to allow alien spouses, natural children, and adopted children of American troops to enter the U.S. as non-quota immigrants, "if admissible". A United Nations spokesman said that the committee would choose a site in the "general areas" of either Boston or New York City as a permanent home for ...
December 5 is the 339th day of the year ... 1945 – Flight 19, ... December 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Children's Day ...
"I'm Crazy" is a short story written by J. D. Salinger for the December 22, 1945 [1] issue of Collier's magazine. [2] Despite the story's underlying melancholy, the magazine described it as "the heart-warming story of a kid whose only fault lay in understanding people so well that most of them were baffled by him and only a very few would believe in him".
The switch in tactics began with the launch of a raid against the port and urban area of Tokyo on 9 March 1945. [5] [6] The group conducted area raids with incendiaries until August 1945. During April 1945, the group was diverted from the strategic campaign against Japan to support Operation Iceberg, the invasion of Okinawa.
Portrait of O’Day H. Short. O'Day H. Short (died January 22, 1946) was an African American refrigerator engineer who broke the color barrier in Fontana, California after buying land and constructing a house south of Base Line Road. [1] [2] [3] Short contacted the FBI and the black press after receiving a warning of imminent violence from ...
21 March – The British Operation Carthage, an air raid targeting the local Gestapo headquarters in the Shell Building in central Copenhagen, goes wrong and 123 Danish civilians, including 87 school children, are killed. [2] 5 May – The occupation of Denmark ends with Nazi Germany's capitulation to the Allied Forces. [3]
December 11: Dutch comics artists Pieter Kuhn and Evert Werkman's first publish Kapitein Rob (1945-1966) in Het Parool. December 15 : after a four-year interruption, due to the Fascist censure, the magazine Topolino comes back in Italian newsstands. [ 20 ]