29 Feb 1932
  • Japanese 11th Infantry Division landed near Liuhe behind Chinese lines in Shanghai, China.
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29 Feb 1940
  • In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California (because of the war) physicist Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Swedish Consul General in San Francisco.
  • Negotiations to end the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union began, but fighting continued. Soviet troops crossed the frozen Gulf of Finland and landed 15 miles west of Viipuri in an attempt to surround the city, but they were defeated by Finnish troops, capturing only Teikari Island. Elsewhere, Finnish troops wiped out the surrounded Soviet troops in the East Lemetti pocket at 0400 hours, capturing 5 field guns, 1 anti-tank gun, 71 tanks, 12 armored cars, 6 anti-aircraft machine guns, 206 trucks, and 70 machine guns.
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  • German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank Italian steamer Maria Rosa in the English Channel, killing 12. 17 people were rescued.
  • German steamers Heidelberg and Troja left the Dutch island of Aruba in the Caribbean Sea after dark in an attempt to evade Allied patrols. Troja was intercepted 10 miles from Aruba from British cruiser Despatch; her crew set fire to the ship and abandoned her, which sank on the next day.
  • Adolf Hitler approved Nikolaus von Falkenhorst's invasion plan for Norway.
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29 Feb 1944
  • The third major German offensive was launched at Anzio, Italy.
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  • Operation Brewer: US troops invaded the Admiralty Islands.
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  • The Japanese submarine I-37 torpedoed the merchantman SS Ascot in the Indian Ocean and then machine-gunned the 52 survivors in the water, killing 45.
  • Seventy "Comfort Girls", captive women forced into prostitution by the Japanese, were machine gunned on the island of Truk in the Caroline Islands as the Japanese tried to destroy evidence before the American invasion arrived.
  • USS Cod attacked a Japanese merchant ship by torpedo.
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  • USS Rock attacked a Japanese convoy en route to Truk, Caroline Islands, but was detected by destroyer Asashimo. She fired a salvo of four torpedoes at the destroyer (none hit) and dove. She was subjected to a four-hour depth charge attack that cause much damage, forcing her to return for repairs.
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  • The US submarine Trout was reported missing, presumed sunk, whilst on patrol northwest of the Philippine Islands.
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  • Photos dated 29 Feb 1944
    Capt James Doyle presented Knox the first US flag over Japanese territory (Kwajalein), 29 Feb 1944MacArthur and his acting aide Colonel Lloyd Lehrabas inspected the results of the heavy naval bombardment on Los Negros, Admiralty Islands, 29 Feb 1944
29 Feb 1952
  • USS Flying Fish became the first American submarine to make 5,000 dives; Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball was aboard for this occasion.
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Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis

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