On this day in 1940, a photo was taken of some new construction benefiting aircraft at a Naval Air Station in Rhode Island.
On the same day, famous aviator August Eddie Schneider was killed in an aviation accident.
Schneider was a well known daring aviator and had won multiple aviation speed records. He'd also flown for the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. On this day he was training a student when his plane was struck by a Navy aircraft, taking it down and killing him.
And of course the war raged on:
Day 480 December 23, 1940
Today in World War II History—December 23, 1940
On this day in the war, Winston Churchill addressed the Italian people and urged them to rebel against Mussolini and take Italy out of the war. The overall poor performance of Italian troops in combat was already effectively achieving that result.
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