Lex Anteinternet: Friday, July 7, 1944. Banzai.

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Friday, July 7, 1944. Banzai.

Soldier demonstrates correct firing position for M1 Garand

The largest "banzai charge" of the Second World War occured on this day, when 3,000 troops made a suicidal attack on U.S. Army positions, overrunning two battalions of the 27th Infantry Division.

The word "banzai" comes from the Japanese battle cry "tennōheika banzai" (天皇陛下万歳) "long live His Majesty the Emperor".

The Polish Home Army commenced Operation Ostra Brama, and armed up rising in Vilnius. Vilnius had been hotly contested between Poland and Lithuania after World War One and was in pre World War Two Poland. Today, of course, it is the capital of Lithuania.

The Japanese destroyer Tamanani as sunk by the USS Mingo off of Mainila.

Georges Mandel, French resistance leader, was executed by hte Milice.

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Thursday, July 6, 1944. Advances on Eastern Front, Halted on Western Front, Tragedy in Connecticut, Racism at Camp Hood.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Army, Battle of Numfoor, Bretton Woods, Charles DeGaulle, Connecticut, Disaster, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Operation Bagration, Personalities, Poland, Racism, Saipan, The Holocaust, World War Two

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