The US Navy launched Operation Desecrate One, an airborne assault on and around Palau.
My Führer ... please believe me when I say I will use all strategic means at my disposal to defend the soil in which my son lies buried.
The reference was to his son, who had died on the Russian Front. As earlier noted, Von Manstein was buried with full military honors at the time of his death in 1973 in spite of being a war criminal. He was 85 at the time of his death.
While I've probably mentioned it before, an oddity of his biography is that his father was German general Eduard von Lewinski and his mother his spouse, Helene Pauline von Sperling. He was given to his aunt and uncle, General Georg von Manstein and Hedwig von Sperling, sister to Helene, upon birth, as they were childless, which is flat out weird. You can't psychoanalyze the dead, but I wonder if that act of betrayal caused his dog like loyalty to Hitler.
Like Von Manstein, Von Kleist would also not return to service. Unlike Von Manstein, however, he was turned over to the Soviets after the war and died in 1954 in prison in the Soviet Union at the age of 73.
The Red Army took Chemovtsky.
Sophia Bulgaria endured its heaviest bombing, by the U.S. Army Air Force, of the war.
The U-223 sank the HMS Laforey. The U-223 was in turn sunk by British destroyers.
The U.S. Public Health Service released To The People of the United States, a short film about a pilot who contracts syphilis. The film won an Academy Award for documentary short, but drew the ire of the Catholic Legion of Decency for failing to stress the immoral conduct giving rise to the disease.
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