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On 28/29 January 16 Me 410s and 10 Fw 190s made attacks without effect and loss. One Mosquito was lost when it crashed into the sea after an engine caught fire. A Junkers Ju 52 was shot down by a night fighter over Spa, Belgium with the loss of 23 ground personnel belonging to KG 6. [115] Eight days later, Steinbock was renewed with 11 Gruppen ...
The Koniuchy massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia w Koniuchach) or the Kaniūkai massacre (Lithuanian: Kaniūkų žudynės) was a World War II massacre of civilians, mostly women and children, [1] [2] carried out in the village of Koniuchy (now Kaniūkai, Lithuania) on 29 January 1944 by a Soviet partisan unit together with a contingent of Jewish partisans under Soviet command. [3]
1943 – World War II: The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, USS Chicago (CA-29) is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers. [18] 1944 – World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units. [19]
January 27, 1945: Auschwitz concentration camp is liberated by the Soviet Red Army. January 30, 1945: More than 9,400 Germans on the German steamer are killed when the vessel is torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine during civilian evacuation. The following events occurred in January 1945:
29 January 29, 1942 (Thursday) 30 January 30, 1942 (Friday) ... "Sandy" Nininger would posthumously receive the first Medal of Honor of World War II.
29 January 29, 1944 (Saturday) 30 January 30, 1944 (Sunday) 31 January 31, 1944 (Monday) 32 References. ... USC Trojans beat the Washington Huskies 29-0 in the Rose Bowl.
January 27 – WWII: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany: Wilhelmshaven is the target. January 29. WWII: Operation Gallop: Russian forces of the Southwestern Front under General Nikolai Vatutin begin an offensive in the Donbas and break through the weak-defended German lines to the west of Voroshilovgrad. [3]
January 29 – WWII: Koniuchy massacre – A unit of Soviet partisans accompanied by Jewish partisans kills at least 38 civilians in the village of Koniuchy in Nazi occupied Lithuania. January 30 – WWII: The Battle of Cisterna opens as United States Army Rangers attempt to break out of the Anzio beachhead.