January 1939-1945

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British cruiser HMS Southampton C83 sunk "by dive bombers, E of Malta, later torpedoed by HMS Gloucester and HMS Orion"

▶1941
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Soviet destroyer Deyatelny sunk "ex USS Herndon, ex HMS Churchill, by U-286, Arctic"

▶1941

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British destroyer HMS Gurkha sunk "ex Larne by U-133, E Mediterranean"

▶1942

Battle of Monte Cassino

▶1944
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British destroyer HMS Grenville sunk "by mine, N Sea"

▶1940
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British destroyer HMS Gallant "damaged by mine and taken in tow. Later bombed and sunk in Malta Harbour"

▶1941
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British destroyer HMS Exmouth sunk "by U-22, Moray Firth"

▶1940

British destroyer HMS Greyhound sunk "by aircraft, battle of Crete"

▶1941
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British steam merchant S.S Caledonion Monarch sunk "46 dead - no survivors"

▶1942
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British capture Tripoli, Libya

▶1943

British destroyer HMS Janus sunk "by aircraft torpedo off Anzio, W Italy"

▶1944

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German Arthur Scherbius, applied for a patent for the enigma machine

▶1928
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Thailand declares war on the U.S. and U.K.

▶1942

British minelaying HMS Corncrake sunk "foundered, N-Atlantic"

▶1943
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Germany-Poland sign 10 year Non-Aggression Pact

▶1934

American Lt.Audie Murphy wounded

▶1945
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British HMS Thanet sunk "Jap surface craft, off Malaya"

▶1942

Liberated Auschwitz, 2017, 71st anniversary

▶1945
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British cruiser HMS Spartan sunk "by aircraft, glider-bomb Henschel Hs 293, off Anzio, W Italy"

▶1944

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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg

▶1933

British corvette HMS Samphire sunk "by Italian submarine Platino, W Mediterranean"

▶1943
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British destroyer HMS Belmont sunk "ex USS Satterlee by U-82, W Atlantic"

▶1942
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