Trenches to Foxholes - This day in World War History July - TopicsExpress



          

Trenches to Foxholes - This day in World War History July 23 1941 -A British Hampden bomber, returning to Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, after a minelaying sortie,crashes into the staff residence of Lincoln Girls High School on Lindum Hill in the nearby city of Lincoln. The crew of four are all killed as is the senior French mistress who died trying to escape from the burning building. 1942. -The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), fearful that the completion of the Japanese airfield on Guadacanal in the Solomon Islands might signal a renewed enemy advance in the South Pacific that could threaten US aid to New Zealand and Australia, agree to deploy Marine to secure the lines of communication.
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:00:01 +0000

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