Friday, October 20, 1944. "This is the Voice of Freedom, General MacArthur speaking. People of the Philippines: I have returned."

So stated a radio address from Douglas MacArthur, on this the opening day of the Battle of Leyte.

A Japanese task force was launched to address the situation in the Philippines.

Members of E Troop, 2nd Squadron, 7th Cav. Regt., engaging the Japs at close range, 100 yards inland from White Beach, Leyte Island, P.I. 20 October, 1944.

The Red Army and Bulgarian partisans took Belgrade.

The Western Allies commenced Operation Pheasant in the Netherlands.

The Guatemalan Revolution began with the overthrow of the government.

From the turret of a medium tank, Cpl. Eugene McKay, Calumet City, Ill., searches for Germans in Aachen, Germany, while a tank destroyer, in the background, moves on German positions. 20 October, 1944. 745th Tank Battalion and 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion attached to 1st Infantry Division.

Last edition:

Thursday, October 19, 1944. Airbase disaster.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Casper Air Base, Casper Wyoming, Disaster, U.S. Air Force, World War Two, Wyoming (Casper)

Thursday, September 28, 1944. The Belgrade Offensive and a last telegraph.

Soviet, Yugoslav Partisan, and Bulgarian forces, the latter now in league with the USSR, began the Belgrade Offensive.

Polish Home Army General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski sent a last telegraph requesting help from the Red Army command for the fighters at Warsaw.  He received no reply.

Churchill announced the formation of a Jewish Brigade.

The US lands on Negesbus and Kongaruru near Peleliu.

Last edition:

Wednesday, September 27, 1944. The Battle of Metz commences.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, Australian Navy, Battle of Metz, boats and ships, Christianity, Finnish Army, George S. Patton, Personalities, Protestant, Sweden, U.S. Air Force, World War Two