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World War II History
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.
1939 - Germany occupied what remained of Czechoslovakia.
1940 - Germany bombed the Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
1942 - U.S. President Roosevelt ordered men between the ages of 45 and 64 to register for non-military duty.
1945 - Iwo Jima was declared secure by the Allies. However, small pockets of Japanese resistance still existed.
1998 - The Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the holocaust of World War II. However, the Vatican did defend the actions of Pope Pius XII.
2000 - Thomas Wilson Ferebee died at the age of 81. He was the bombardier of the Enola Gay and was the person that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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| "The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight...We are facing very difficult days, perhaps the most difficult that a man can undergo." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel - November 3, 1942 |