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#OTD Operation Meetinghouse: On the night of 9–10 March 1945, bombs dropped from 279 US Air Force B-29 Superfortress burned out much of eastern Tokyo. More than 90,000 and possibly over 100,000 Japanese people were killed, mostly civilians, and one million were left homeless.

🇫🇷 Tunisia, 10 March 1943 The Free French Force L (L for its commander Gen. Philippe Leclerc) defends a corridor at Ksar-Rhilane between the high ground of Mount Matmata and the great Grand Erg sand dunes. Leclerc met Montgomery the day before and was warned of an impending…

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The serial killer in occupied Paris... On 11 March 1944, French firefighters are called out to 21 rue Le Sueur in Paris following several complaints from neighbours concerning a terrible smell. After breaking in through a window, they discover a scene of horror... 1/11

#OTD 🇬🇧March 1945 - the RAF reduced much of the city of Essen to rubble when 1,079 British aircraft dropped over 4,700 tons of bombs on the city. This mission is recorded historically as the second largest bombing attack of the Second World War.

11 March 1944 Japanese submarine I-29 arrives at the French port of Lorient after a voyage from Japan that began on 17 December 1943. on board are Vice-Amiral Kojima Hideo, the new Naval Embassy Attache for Berlin and his deputy deputy Commander Ogi Kazuto, Cdr Muchaku Senmei…

#OTD March 11, 1946. The British arrested former Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss near Flensburg. The SS officer testified at the Nuremberg Trials and was later tried in Warsaw, found guilty, and hanged at Auschwitz in April 1947.

🇫🇷 Sad news has arrived of the passing of Philippe de Gaulle (son of Charles) at the age of 102. He joined the Free French Navy in 1940 and also served as an auxilliary fireman during the London Blitz. He served on a corvette during the Battle of the Atlantic and also on MTBs. He…

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#OTD Clydebank Blitz. As a result of the German raids on the nights of 13 and 14 March 1941, Clydebank (Scotland) was largely destroyed 1,200 people died, 1,000 people were seriously injured, and hundreds more were injured by blast debris. Over 35,000 people were made homeless

From March 13–16, 1943, SS and police authorities liquidate the Krakow ghetto. During the operation, the SS kill 2,000 Jews in the ghetto and transfer about 8,000 Jews to Plaszow and 3,000 to Auschwitz, where they are murdered in gas chambers.

#OTD #RAF 14 March 1945. Bomber Command made its first use of the 22,000lb ‘Grand Slam’ bomb, wrecking a railway viaduct at Bielefeld, Germany. The viaduct had been peppered with 3,500 tons of smaller bombs before a single "Grand Slam" did the job!

In the autumn of 43 he was recruited into the BCRA as part of Action Plan Tortue destined to train Resistance groups for the future invasion. Parachuted into occupied France, he was denounced five days later and picked up by the Gestapo. Imprisoned at Fresnes in Paris, he…

Baloche had escaped to England after the fall of France and rallied de Gaulle in London. On 19 August 1942 he was one of fifteen Free French commandos involved in the raid on Dieppe. He was later awarded the British Military Medal by Mountbatten for his action at Varengeville…

🇫🇷 From Dieppe to Dachau During the night of 15 March 1944, French naval commando and now secret agent (BCRA) Francois Baloche is parachuted into the Haute-Marne along with Jean-Marie Molinie, Alexandre Katlama and Robert Caille. They are tasked with undertaking sabotage missions…

#OTD 🇺🇸March 15, 1941 - the Gestapo arrested the United Press correspondent Richard Hottelet (American) on "suspicion of espionage". He was imprisoned for 4 months and then released as part of a US-GER exchange.

The dog aboard USS Redwood had a much easier time of it. Uncle Joe wrote home to tell his family about the stray one of the guys found on the pier and brought aboard. My grandmother knitted and mailed a sweater. Guess she didn't know they were in the South Atlantic.

🇫🇷 Miss Dior Late afternoon 6 July 1944, Catherine Dior, Resistance member and sister of fashion designer Christian, is arrested by the Gestapo when she goes to meet a member of her network at Place du Trocadero in Paris... 1/7

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