The Cairo Conference on the war against Japan commenced with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek in attendance.
Lebanon was granted independence.
Lebanon was not a French colony, but a League of Nation's mandate. The event was nonetheless a clear signal that France's grip on its overseas colonies was rapidly slipping.
It was day three of operations on Tarawa. On that day, Japanese Rear Admiral Keiji Shibazaki, who was directing the island's defense, was killed with his staff when a Marine spotted his staff walking to a secondary command post and called in Naval gunfire on the location. He had boasted that the US couldn't take Tarawa in 100 years.
It in fact took four bloody days.
The RAF struck Berlin in a massive nighttime raid.
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