Jan 19 Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily

Feb 09 Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents

Feb 24 Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WWII

Feb 11 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

Feb 15 Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid

Feb 07 The birth of Gareth Hunt, British actor

Feb 10 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia

Feb 14 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia

Feb 16 Sign on Munich facade "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22

Feb 22 Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Weyburn strikes mine and sinks near Gibraltar.

Feb 23 General-Major Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh

Feb 18 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis

Feb 10 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau

Feb 25 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front

Feb 24 General-Major Bradley flies to Algiers

Feb 09 FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

Feb 11 Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany

Feb 19 Parliament approves Defence (Citizen Military Forces) Bill introducing conscription for service in south-west Pacific war zone

Feb 09 The birth of Joe Pesci, American actor.

Feb 13 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front

Feb 09 German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp

Feb 01 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier

Feb 22 The Bulgarian government signs an agreement with the Germans to allow deportations from Macedonia and Thrace. 11,000 Jews are deported.

Feb 11 Ottawa imposes severe wartime gasoline rationing of 10 gallons a month for every private car

Feb 20 Phil Wrigley &B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League

Feb 07 Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)

Feb 16 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa

Feb 18 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean General/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart

Feb 21 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia

Feb 11 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

Feb 16 Red army conquers Kharkov

Feb 21 Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews

Feb 16 -32º F (-36º C), Falls Village CT (state record)

Feb 18 First edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"

Feb 15 The Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet assigned responsibility for sea-going development of helicopters

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