It was a Sunday on a Memorial Day weekend in the US. What did that look like in Wyoming, I wonder?
It wasn't a day off for SHAEF, as Sarah Sundin reports; Today in World War II History—May 28, 1944
The 8th Air Force attacked Leuna and Magdeburg
The 41st Infantry Division advanced against heavy Japanese opposition on Biak. At the same time, Gen. MacArthur declared the New Guinea campaign strategically won, while acknowledging that hard fighting remained.
Rudy Giuliani was born in Brooklyn. His rise and fall demonstrates, in a way, how politicians born in the 1940s have been eclipsed by age, and should really no longer be seriously considered for office.
Gladys Knight was born in Atlanta.
The late Sandra Locke was born in Tennessee.
Last prior edition:
Saturday, May 27, 1944. Landing at Biak.
Labels: 1940s, 1944, Army, Battle of Biak, Battle of the Atlantic, boats and ships, Indonesia, Infantry, New Guinea, Royal Air Force, World War Two
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