Timeline of World War II Military Advances and Battles
A chronological ledger of 1942 1943 and 1944 events detailing Allied and Axis moves across the Pacific Europe and the Middle East. It lists key offensives landings battles advances Rome battlefronts and strategic shifts including Moscow Paris and Berlin theater actions.
Major World Events Recap of 1944 and 1945 Highlights
Indictments, war manpower shifts, policy shifts, budget figures, and victories across 1944 and 1945 are summarized. Key items include drafts, tax measures, military promotions, prisoner counts, and postwar planning. Notable names include Roosevelt, Dewey, Bricker, Hull, and De Gaulle, with events spanning Congress actions, Lend-Lease era outputs, and major sports milestones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Roosevelt
Hull
World Organization
War Manpower Commission
Rolla Mc.Millen
Ininals
Senate
Thomas E Dewey
New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Red Cross
Rose Bowl rout seals USC win over Washington U 29 to 0
A rundown of notable sports results lists Southern California U toppling Washington University with a 29 to 0 Rose Bowl victory. Other items include Jay McSpaden winning the Los Angeles Open 60, Byron Nelson at San Francisco Open, and coaching changes such as Bob Coleman replacing Casey Stengel with the Boston Braves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pulitzer Pie
Martin Flavin
Oklahoma
Teenie
Communist Party
Supremes Court
CPA
University of California
Southern California U
Washington U
Jay McSpaden
Byron Nelson
Boston Braves
Bob Coleman
Casey Stengel
Joe Baks
Tony Mauriello
Sammy Byrd
New Orleans
Multiyear Disaster Toll From Wartime Accidents
A chronology of deadly wartime disasters lists numerous incidents: naval patrols sinking off New Jersey, a freight train collision in Arizona killing 250 cadets, a passenger train rear collision near Novice Texas with 12 dead and 40 injured, and an airliner crash into the Mississippi near Memphis that killed 21 passengers and 3 crew. Other events include a Liberty ship collision off the English coast with many lives lost, a surface mine explosion at Camp Robinson, a Passaic River bridge plunge drowning 19, a coal mine explosion near Shinniston, a Hastings ordnance depot blast killing eight, a Ringling Bros tent fire in Hartford that killed 167, a Lakehurst blimp crash killing 10, a massive Pennsylvania West Virginia Maryland tornado killing 146, and Port Chicago munitions ships disaster with 319 dead. The tally also notes a troop-train wreck near Jellico with 31 soldiers killed and 100 injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navyatrol
May
Ingman
Ariz
Novice
Texas
J. Pinkney Henderson
Camp Robinson
Passaic River
New Jersey
Shinniston
W. Va
Naval Ordnance Depot
Hastings
Neb
Arkansas
Portsmouth
Ringling Bros. Circus
Hartford
Conn
Bellaire
Ohio
Jellico
Tenn
Navy
Port Chicago
Call
Notable Deaths and Dying in Early 1940s Figures
A compiled list of prominent deaths and self insults across North America and beyond, naming Ida Tarbell Walter Hackett William Allen White Martigan Cullen Campbell Eastman Leacock Gellette Beck Thorp Thorp Compton Knappen Dinehart Leslie McNair Quezon Pardee Moon Cherry Norris Reed Alfred E. Smith Wendellyn Willkie Richard Bennett Christiana Bond Boake Carter Ellison Smith Landis Fall Griffith Velez with ages and locations in 1940s era notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida M Tarbell
Bridgeport
Walter Hackett
New York
William Allen White
Emporia
Kan
Christiana Bond
Baltimore
Boake Carter
Hollywood
Calif
Ellison D. Smith
St. Carolina
Lynchburg
S. C
Kenesaw M. Landis
Chicago
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Philippines
Southern
France
U. S
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Admencan
San Guista
Magdeburg
Leningrad
Hitler
Burma
Namur
Marshalls
U. S. Army
Kwajalein Atoll
Berlin
Truk
South Pacific
Marianas Islands
Romania
Austria
Odessa
Kohima
India
Bern
Japan
mid-Pacific
Kamaung
Cherbourg
Vitebsk
Zhiobin
Minsk
England
Caen
Lwow
Brest-Litovsk
Tinian Island
Turkey
Germany
Guam
U.S
French
Marseille
Nice
Paris
Toulon
Bucharest
Russia
Bulgaria
Siitian
Taran
Ales
Czechoslovakia
Third Fleet
Cebu
Negros Islands
Phillippines
Quebec
Finland
Tallinn
Estonia
Yugoslavia
Uebach
Borneo
Aachen
Greece
Jeneain
China
Liuchow
Arma
Spitz
Norwelan
Holland
Vosges
Rhine River
Lunge
Gelfort Gan
Patton
Third
Metz
Tokyo
Marianas
Mark Clark
U.S. Army Forces
Aly
Saarbrucken
Saarlautern
Merig
Leyte
Saar River
Norway
Roer
Saar
U. S. Third Army
Athens
Bonin Islands
MacArthur
Ormoc
Nagoya
Duren
Cologne
U. S. Seventh Army
White House
War Relocation Authority
WRA
Department of Inferiors
Army
Pacific
Selective Service
Alben Barkley
Flaicup
Veterans’ Organizations
Armed
Orces
State Department
House
United States
Wendell Willkie
Wisconsin
Biddle
Political Action Committee
Cro
Montgomery Ward Co
FDR
CIO
Treasury
Grumman
Charles DeGaulle
DeGaulle
Wallace
Eric Johnston
U.S. Uamber of
Commerce
Fromussia
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Bahamas
Harry Truman
Philadelphia
Governors
Harvard University
Hawaii
Alaska
U.S. Department of Justice
Lincoln
John F. Dulles
Dewey
Warren
California
Green
Illinois
Baldwin
Connecticut
Churchill
Census Bureau
Detroit
Dumbarton Oaks
War” Production Board
de Gaulle
United Nations
Italy
Dept. of Agriculture
Siath
Edward Stetlinius
Cordell Mull
Norman Littell
Husband Kimmel
Walter Short
Pearl Harbor
War and Navy
Felson
Atlanta
War Mobilzation
Byrnes
Hie-Nabek
Amercans
Fort Sheridan
Ill
War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward and Co
Pensive
Broadelery
Stir Uord
U. of Michigan
U. of Diinois
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Francisco Segura
Ecuador
Mildred
Babe
Didrikson Zaharias
Dorothy Germaine
Gunder Hagg
Sweden
Pittsburgh
Willie Pep
Manuel Ortiz
Boston
Ann Curtis
Joe Baksi
Lee Savold
Bob Hamilton
Professional Golfers’ Association
Leslie Jepsen
Chicago Bears
College All Stars
Ike Williams
Sammy Angott
Nashville
Memphis
St. Louis Cardinals
Chalky White
St Louis Browns
San Francisco
Sporting News
Martin Marion
Cardinal
Bobby Doerr
Francisco Sefurs
Jimmy Daniels
Sammy An- Rott
Notre Dame
K. M. Landis
Yy Jeague
Yale
Big Ten
Ohio State
Big Six
Southwest Texas Christian
Duke
Cffic
Southern California
Hal Newhouser
Detroit Tigers
Great Lakes
Georgia Tech
Georgia
Welker Cochran
Iceland
Newfoundland
Atkinson
Stockton
Eness Palisades
N. J
Coney Island Brook Cee
Atlantic Coast
South Carolina
Canada
Coast Guard
Missouri Valley
Iowa
Terre Haute
Ind
Cleveland
Hanford
Limited
Sacramento
Mountain
Harmanfield
Madison
Wis
Burbank
Tolar
N. M
Bob Montgomery
Beau Jack
U.A. of Michigan
Gilbert Dodds
Alan Ford
U of Utah
N.C.A.A
Montreal Canadiens
Chicago Blackhawks
Ayoff
Charlie Grimm
Chicago Cubs
Mississippi River
Lakehurst
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Maryland
Charles C. Martigan
Palo Alto
Thomas H. Cullen
Brooklyn
Washington, D. C
Thomas & Campbell
Arizona
Phoenix
Joseph Eastman
Offier of
Defense Transportation
Williamy J. Ronyanon
Stephen B Leacock
Toronto
Sarah Jane Swanson
Frank Knox
Adm
Wiliam Rodgers
Bethesda
Henry D Styer
Liberia
Coronado
C. R. Gellette
Shreveport
Law
Josef Beck
Poland
Louisa E G. Thorp
Los Angeles
Betty Compton Knappen
Alan Dinehart
Don Pardee Moon
Washington
Effie Cherry
Cherry Sisters
Vaudeville
Cedar Rapids
George W. Norris
Nebraska
McCook
James A. Reed
Missouri
Fairview
Mich
Alfred E. Smith
New York City
Wendellyn Willkie
Reoubtican
Richard Bennett
Albert B. Fall
el Paso
Maj
John Griffith
Lupe Velez
Killa Self
Western Newspaper Union
MR. Avery
W. A. Myers
Johnson Jewelry Shop
Malone Ave
Ranney St. Sikeston, Mo
Sikeston
Scott County Abstract Company
Benton, Mo
C. B. Turner
Scott Street
Bailey & Bailey Attorneys-at-Law
McCoy-Tanner Bldg
Sikeston, MO
George W. Kirk
Applegate
E. J. Menstedt
Front Street
Howard A. Dunaway
McCoy-Tanner Building
B. L. McMullin
Stallcup
F. L. Sisson
North Kingshighway
Optometry
W. L Sidwell
D. D
McCoy-Tanner
Welsh Funeral Home
Distinctive Service