Jul 21 8 die as coal waste heap slides in river valley near Oakwood, Va

Jul 22 Gas rationing begins along the Atlantic coast of the US to help the American war effort during WWII.

Jul 27 Formation of Australian Women's Land Army

Jul 18 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, first jet fighter, takes first flight

Jul 04 The first American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)

Jul 13 The birth of Harrison Ford, American actor

Jul 17 Estimated 87.5 cm (34.5") of rainfall, Smethport, Pa. (state record)

Jul 30 FDR signs act establishing WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). During World War II, over 80,000 officer and enlisted women served in the WAVES.

Jul 18 The first legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens

Jul 05 Port Hope Ontario, Ian Fleming the first graduate of the Special 25 training school for spies; later member of MI5, creator of James Bond novels.

Jul 24 HMCS St. Croix (Destroyer) sinks the U-90

Jul 30 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

Jul 31 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

Jul 20 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines

Jul 26 CAPT Joy Bright Hancock appointed Director, Women's Naval Reserve.

Jul 28 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia

Mar 17 General Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander

Mar 01 Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews

Mar 19 FDR orders men between 45 &64 to register for non military duty

Mar 26 ADM King becomes both Chief of Naval Operations and Commander, U.S. Fleet

Mar 28 British naval forces raid Nazi occupied French port of St Nazaire

Mar 23 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean

Mar 02 14th Academy Awards "How Green was My Valley", Gary Cooper &Joan Fontaine win

Mar 26 The first "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz &Birkenau Camps

Mar 12 The birth of Brian O'Hara, Lead singer with the 'Fourmost' group

Mar 21 The Flying Tigers were incorporated into the U.S. Army Air Force

Mar 29 German submarine U-585 sinks

Mar 17 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported

Mar 08 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies

Mar 27 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York NY)

Mar 07 Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed

Mar 26 The first 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec

Mar 07 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion

Mar 20 Major German assault on Malta

Mar 20 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia

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