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Weapon: SG-43 Goryunov, 9 May 2008
Person: Henry Arnold, 8 May 2008
Aircraft: Spitfire, 8 May 2008
Ship: U-52, 7 May 2008
Aircraft: Hs 126, 6 May 2008
Ship: Tribune, 5 May 2008
Book Review: The Golden Horseshoe, 4 May 2008
Event: Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities, 3 May 2008
Event: Battle of Britain, 2 May 2008
Person: Adolf Hitler, 1 May 2008
Weapon: 15 cm sFH 18, 30 Apr 2008
Aircraft: He 115, 29 Apr 2008

This Month in WW2 History  See All for May

Death of Leslie Gehres, 1975
Commission of the Ship Enterprise, 1938
Maiden Flight of Aircraft Stirling, 1939
Sinking of the Ship Kikuzuki, 1942
Death of Heinz Guderian, 1954

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Japanese oil tanker, destroyer, and harbor facilities burning after being attacked by Allied aircraft during Operation Cockpit, Sabang, Sumatra, 19 Apr 1944British Wildcat fighter of the No 846 Squadron Fleet Air Arm in flight over the coast of Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 26 Jun 1944Crew of HMS Dianthus loading a Mk VII depth charge into a Mk IV depth charge thrower, 14 Aug 1942
Spitfire V fighter in flight, date unknownSpitfire Mk XII fighters of 41 Squadron RAF flying in formation, date unknownSpitfire Mk IXb fighter of 611 Squadron RAF, circa 1942-1943
German submarine U-52 surfaced, date unknownHs 126 at rest, date unknownAn Allied merchant ship being shelled by a German submarine, date unknown
Submarine Tribune underway, Sep 1942; photo taken from atop the conning towerAerial view of burned out buildings in Hamburg, Germany, circa 1944-1945Anti-submarine Leigh Light installed beneath the wing of a Liberator bomber of the RAF Coastal Command, 26 Feb 1944

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WAVES officers marching at the intersection of Garden and Chauncy Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, circa 1943
WAVES officers marching at the intersection of Garden and Chauncy Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, circa 1943
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"Since peace is now beyond hope, we can but fight to the end."

Chiang Kaishek, 31 Jul 1937

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