Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, September 12, 1944. Le Havre taken.

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Tuesday, September 12, 1944. Le Havre taken.

Members of an American tank unit ford the National Canal, near Bayon, France, as they follow the Germans retreating back towards the German frontier. 12 September, 1944. 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division.

Le Havre surrendered to the British.

The US 1st Army reached the German bordered between Aachen and Trier.

The Germans evacuated Mytilene in the Aegean.

The Romanian government entered into a formal armistice with the Allies which resulted in the cessation of territory to the USSR. Taking territory from the USSR had been a large part of the reason it entered the war in the first place.

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Monday, September 11, 1944. Communist usurpation in Poland.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Army, cavalry, Communism, Franklin Roosevelt, Germany, Italy, Nazi Germany, Operation Dragoon, Operation Overlord, Poland, Second Quebec Conference, South African Army, Winston Churchill, World War Two

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