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This week in the War, 1–7 February 1943: Jobs for generals

Posted on February 5, 2015 by secondbysecond

This week in the war, two American generals were named to their new commands. On 5 February 1943, Lieutenant-General Frank Maxwell Andrews was named as commander of all US forces in the European theatre. On 6 February 1943, Lieutenant-General Dwight … Continue reading →

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This week in the War, 2–8 November 1942: Operation Torch

Posted on November 8, 2014 by secondbysecond

On the morning of 8 November 1942, an Anglo-American expeditionary force commanded by American general, Dwight D. Eisenhower, landed in the vicinities of Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers, in Vichy-French North Africa. Operation Torch, which had first been discussed by Roosevelt … Continue reading →

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This week in the War, 25–31 May 1942: Cologne—the thousand-bomber raid

Posted on May 29, 2014 by secondbysecond

This week in the war, at midnight on the night of 30/31 May 1942, Churchill announced to his dinner guests at Chequers that the RAF was, at that very moment, striking Cologne with over a thousand bombers. The guests included … Continue reading →

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