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1945 is a 2017 Hungarian drama film directed by Ferenc Török [2] and co-written by Török and Gábor T. Szántó.It concerns two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who arrive in a Hungarian village in August 1945, and the paranoid reactions of the villagers, some of whom fear that these and other Jews are coming to reclaim Jewish property.
The Invisibles (German: Die Unsichtbaren – Wir wollen leben) (2017) – German biographical war drama film recounting the struggle of Cioma Schönhaus, Hanni Lévy, Eugen Friede and Ruth Arndt-Gumpel to survive their persecution as Jews in Berlin from 1942 to 1945 [87]
The Norwegian government spent 15 years assessing possible risks of raising the wreck, with its dangerous unexploded torpedoes inside. Finally, in February 2017, it was decided to cover the U-864 with 50 centimetres of sand and 160,000 long tons (160,000 t) of rock to seal the mercury inside the wreck. [3]
Scattered wreckage is still where it fell. [12] 3 April 1942 The 303rd Bomb Group, activated at Pendleton Field, Oregon, on 3 February 1942, suffers its first fatal aircraft accident when three flying officers and five enlisted crew are killed in the crash of a B-17E-BO, 41-9053, six miles (9.7 km) N of Strevell, Idaho [13] during a training ...
The lead bomber went into an immediate spin and crashed. The second PB4Y flew straight and level for a short time before it also spun and crashed. The wreckage came down about eight miles (13 km) north of Munson. Twenty-eight crew were killed, including one found in an unopened parachute. [64] [65] 14 May 1945
2 February 1945: USMC R5C-1 39504 disappeared south of Los Angeles with seven on board. [ 5 ] 4 February 1945: While flying over remote jungle 55 mi northwest of Jorhat, USAAF C-46A 42-107386 developed mechanical problems that led to an in-flight fire and crashed near the top of a jungle-covered hill at 6559 feet and burned out, killing 34 of ...
The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort. For short films, see the List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World ...
The German U-boat U-864 was attacked and sunk on 9 February 1945 by HMS Venturer, a V-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Venturer was patrolling the waters around Fedje Island, off the Norwegian coast in the North Sea. The sinking remains the only incident in the history of naval warfare where one submarine sank another while both were submerged.