Canadian Military Policeman James McCallum from Quebec was sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for the murder of barman Morris Sholman during an armed robbery of the Coach and Horses pub in Covent Garden, London, England, United Kingdom. [London, England | AC]2...
Joseph Goebbels and his wife committed suicide in the garden of the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany after poisoning their six children with cyanide. [Reich Chancellery | Joseph Goebbels | Berlin | CPC] German 12.Armee retreated from Berlin, Germany to the Elbe River and attempted to begin negotia...
Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day “Full victory – Nothing else” to paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division (personnel of the 502d PIR) at the Royal Air Force base in Greenham Common, England, three hours before the men board their planes to participate in...
Spitfire, the most widely produced and strategically important British single-seat fighter of World War II. The Spitfire, renowned for winning victory laurels in the Battle of Britain (1940–41) along with the Hawker Hurricane, served in every theatre of