Showing posts with label Lithuanian Partisans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lithuanian Partisans. Show all posts

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Tuesday, March 13, 1945. The road to Mandalay.

"These First U.S. Army infantrymen, known as "Grover's Ghosts", are a combat patrol of the 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division. They captured the German town of Seilsdorf using Nazi weapons and equipment after their own ammunition ran out. Hermulheim, Germany. 13 March, 1945."  121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division.  Photographer: Pvt. H. Jaquith, 165th Signal Photo Co.

The Battle of Kiauneliškis ended in a Red Army victory with the destruction of the Lithuanian partisan bunkers.

The British Indian 62nd Bde took the last Japanese rail link to Mandalay.

"En route from Kunming, China, to Kai Yuan, China, in the Petrified Forest area. 13 March, 1945.
Entire convoy personnel of Maj. Gen. R. B. McClure, C.G. of C.G.C. and Gen. Ho Ying Chin, Supreme Commander of the Chinese Armies. Photographer: Pfc. E. J. Frayne, Jr."

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Monday, March 12, 1945. Santa Fe Riots.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Sunday, March 11, 1945. Essen destroyed.

The RAF destroyed Essen.

The Battle of Kiauneliškis between Lithuanian partisans and the Red Army.

The British 36 Division took Mongrmit, Burma.

"Men of the 32nd Division are standing outside the Information and Education Tent at the Headquarters of the 32nd Division. Taytay, Luzon, P.I. 11 March, 1945. 32nd Infantry Division."

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Saturday, March 10, 1945. The execution of Gen. Émile Lemonnier.

Monday, July 1, 2024

Saturday, July 1, 1944. Bretton Woods.

Morgenthau opening conference.

Delegates from forty-four nations met at the secluded Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to participate in the Bretton Woods Conference. The conference met to establish the post-war economic order and was one of the most significant events of the 20th Century.

Henry Morgenthau was the chief U.S. delegate to the conference, and was rapidly elected its presiding officer.  Harry Dexter White, who was a Soviet spy, was the chief US delegate in fact and a major factor in the resulting plans.

The II SS Panzer Corps attacked British positions around Caen but was repulsed.  Gerd von Rundstedt phoned Berlin to report the failure to which Chief of Staff Wilhelm Keitel purportedly asked, "What shall we do?", to which Rundstedt replied, "Make peace, you fools! What else can you do?"

The U.S. 133d Infantry Regiment captured Cicina, Italy.

The Red Army took Borisov.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Public Health Service Act and the Renunciation Act of 1944.  The latter allowed people physically present in the U.S. to renounce citizenship when the country was at war.  It required an application to the Attorney General of the United States in order to do so.

The act sought to have Japanese Americans do that very thing, sot hey could later be deported to Japan.  A total of 5,589 American citizens availed themselves of the act, 5,461 coming from the Tule Lake Segregation Center.  Many came to regret their decision, and some of the renunciations were reversed.

Internees at Tule Lake.

Formation of the anti-Soviet Lithuanian Partisans occured.

Partisans in 1947.

They'd fight on after World War Two.

Anti Soviet Estonian Forest Brothers re formed on the same day.

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