Jan 24 Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy

Jan 03 Helicopter Mercy Mission a HNS-1 helicopter, made an emergency delivery of 40 units of blood plasma from lower Manhattan Island to Sandy Hook where the plasma was administered to survivors of an explosion on the destroyer Turner (DD 648)

Jan 31 U-592 sunk off Ireland

Jan 15 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die

Jan 01 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army

Jan 10 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma

Jan 16 Lieutenant (jg) S. R. Graham, USCG, while en route from New York to Liverpool in the British freighter Daghestan made a 30 minute flight in an R-4B (HNS-1) from the ship's 60 by 80 foot flight deck

Jan 02 First use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

Jan 22 American troops invaded Italy, landing at Anzio beach in a move to outflank German defensive positions.

Jan 15 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany

Jan 04 Ralph Bunche appointed first Negro official in US State Department

Jan 27 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed

Jan 16 In London, General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes commander of the Allied Invasion Force, during WWII.

Jan 31 US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll

Jan 15 General Eisenhower arrives in England

Jan 30 US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands

Jan 07 Air Force announces production of first US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

Feb 02 Allied troops first set foot on Japanese territory

Feb 19 U-264 sinks off Ireland

Feb 08 First black reporter accredited to the White House, Harry McAlpin

Feb 05 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin

Feb 28 The birth of Bernadette Peters, Actress

Feb 29 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death

Feb 20 U.S. warplanes begin bombing German manufacturing plants during WWII.

Feb 07 Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records

Feb 01 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy

Feb 15 Bombing & shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins

Feb 24 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war

Feb 09 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland

Feb 26 First female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

Feb 15 891 British bombers attack Berlin

Feb 29 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands

Feb 11 German troops re-conquer Aprilia Italy

Feb 01 First Japanese territory invaded at Kwajalein.

Feb 02 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands

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