Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A B-17 nicknamed "High Life" of the 100th Bomb Group that crash landed in Switzerland, where the plane and its crew were interned. The Americans listed 55 of their bombers with 552 crewmen as missing after the August 17 double-target mission. About half of those became prisoners of war of the Germans and 20 were interned in Switzerland. Sixty ...
As the Allies advanced towards Japan, conditions became steadily worse for the Japanese people. Japan's merchant fleet declined from 5,250,000 gross register tons in 1941 to 1,560,000 tons in March 1945, and 557,000 tons in August 1945. The lack of raw materials forced the Japanese war economy into a steep decline after the middle of 1944.
Col. Ahmad Dhani leading a briefing on 12 April 1958 during Operation 17 August PRRI is a movement carried out by regional governments towards the central government. This movement, which is considered a rebellion, was triggered by the local government's dissatisfaction in several cities in Sumatra regarding the central government's fund allocation policy as well as various disparities in ...
The Soviet landing force left Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at 05:00 on 17 August 1945 and, after a 21-hour voyage, arrived in the First Kuril Strait at 02:00 on 18 August 1945 and took up positions for the landings on Shumshu. The first wave of about 1,000 naval infantrymen went ashore at 04:30 on 18 August 1945.
August 1945 began with further large-scale raids against Japanese cities. On the 1st of the month, 836 B-29s staged the largest single raid of World War II, dropping 6,145 tons of bombs and mines. The cities of Hachiōji , Mito , Nagaoka and Toyama were the main targets of this operation; all four suffered extensive damage and 99.5 percent of ...
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed Indonesian Independence on 17 August 1945. Indonesian soldiers in the streets, November 1949. Remains of the car of Brigadier Aubertin Walter Sothern Mallaby, where he was killed on 30 October 1945 during the Battle of Surabaya. A village near Bandung, where a number of houses were set on fire. Two ...
The Seishin Operation (Russian: Сэйсинская операция, romanized: Seysinskaya operatsiya, Korean: 청진 상륙 작전), also called Chongjin Landing Operation, was an amphibious assault on northern Korea between 13–17 August 1945, carried out by the forces of the Soviet Northern Pacific Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet during the Soviet–Japanese War at the end of World War II.
The Eighth was to upgrade their B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators to B-29 Superfortresses (the group received its first B-29 on August 8, 1945). [16] In total, General Henry Arnold estimated that the bomb tonnage dropped in the Pacific Theater by USAAF aircraft alone would exceed 1,050,000 tons in 1945 and 3,150,000 tons in 1946 ...