Machine gun position, Borgen Bay, New Britain. January 26, 1944.
The Red Army captured Krasnogvardeisk. The Germans set fire to Gatchina Palace and vandalizing much of the town's park on the way out.
Two days later, its pre-1923 name of Gatchina would was restored.
The US II Corps established a bridgehead over the Rapido. The Free French Corps captured Colle Belvedere and advanced toward Monte Abate.
From Sarah Sundin's blog:
Today in World War II History—January 26, 1944: British landing ship LST-422 is damaged by a mine off Anzio; of 700 aboard, 454 US soldiers & 29 British sailors are killed.
Argentina severed diplomatic relations with the Axis powers.
A.T.F. 9 Ordnance Section. 26 January, 1944. Kiska.
US Communist figure Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
She remains a radical leftist and is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz currently.
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