| date |
year |
description of clip |
| 01 Aug |
1944 |
General Patton takes command of US Third Army
|
| 02 Aug |
1944 |
Rokossovskij's troops stop outside Warsaw
|
| 03 Aug |
1944 |
Rennes is liberated (Normandy)
|
| 04 Aug |
1944 |
Eighth Army reaches Florence
|
| 05 Aug |
1943 |
Soviet forces capture Orel during the Battle of Kursk
|
| 06 Aug |
1945 |
Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
|
| 07 Aug |
1942 |
US forces attack Guadalcanal
|
| 08 Aug |
1945 |
The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and attack Japanese troops in Manchuria
|
| 09 Aug |
1945 |
Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki
|
| 10 Aug |
1944 |
Nantes is liberated
|
| 11 Aug |
1944 |
Angers is liberated
|
| 12 Aug |
1941 |
Atlantic declaration - Roosevelt and Churchill meet
|
| 13 Aug |
1944 |
Argentan is liberated
|
| 14 Aug |
1945 |
Japan capitulates
|
| 15 Aug |
1944 |
Allied troops land in Southern France in 'Operation Dragoon'
|
| 16 Aug |
1942 |
Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow
|
| 17 Aug |
1943 |
B-17s raid Regensburg and Schweinfurt
|
| 18 Aug |
1940 |
RAF destroys 71 German aircraft losing 27
|
| 19 Aug |
1944 |
Two German armies surrounded in the Falaise pocket
|
| 20 Aug |
1944 |
Soviet start offensive against Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary
|
| 21 Aug |
1940 |
Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City
|
| 22 Aug |
1943 |
End of Battle of Kursk
|
| 23 Aug |
1939 |
Germany signs a nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union
|
| 24 Aug |
1944 |
Paris is liberated
|
| 25 Aug |
1944 |
German forces in Paris surrender
|
| 26 Aug |
1942 |
US - Japan naval battle near Guadalcanal
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| 27 Aug |
1940 |
Luftwaffe intensifies operations against RAF airfields
|
| 28 Aug |
1943 |
Japanese evacuate New Georgia and other Solomon Islands
|
| 29 Aug |
1941 |
Soviets evacuate Karelian Isthmus
|
| 30 Aug |
1944 |
Soviet forces take Ploesti
|
| 31 Aug |
1942 |
Rommel encounters Montgomery for the first time in the desert
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