On her fourth war patrol, 14 December to 24 January 1945, Sealion returned to the South China Sea in a coordinated attack group with sister ships Blenny (SS-324) and Caiman (SS-323). Poor weather plagued her; and, of the 26 days spent on station, all but six were spent on the surface. On one of those few good days, 20 December, she sighted a supply ship escorted by a destroyer through her high periscope and, at 19:37, fired six torpedoes at the supply ship for four hits. The submarine then evaded the escort, reloaded, an ...

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1945 - January. January 3 - Victoria Principal, American actress January 3 - Stephen Stills, American singer and songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) January 4 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate January 10 - Rod Stewart, English singer January 26 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987) January 29 - Tom Selleck, American actor January 30 - Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997) January 31 - Joseph Kosuth, Am ...

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1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1945 - Events. January 5 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 - British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his contribution to the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 - World War II: The Soviet Union begin a very large offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis. January 13 - A Soviet patrol arre ...

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1945 in aviation - January. January 1 - the Luftwaffe begins targeting Allied airfields in Europe as "Operation Bodenplatte" 1945 in aviation - February. February 13-15 - Allied bombers attack Dresden with incendiary weapons, destroying most of the city and killing some 50,000 people. February 21 - aircraft carrier USS Saratoga i ...

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General Charles André Joseph Marie De Gaulle (listen ▶ (help·info)) (November 22, 1890-November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as général De Gaulle or Le Général, was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II he was mostly known as a tank tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armored and aviation forces. He was the leader of Free France in World War II and head of the provisional go ...

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February February 7 - Consolidated-Vultee XP-81 February 21 - Hawker Sea Fury prototype SR 661 February 25 - Bell XP-83 March Blohm & Voss BV 238 March 18 - Douglas XB2D-1, prototype of the AD Skyraider April April 5 - Miles Monitor April 19 - de Havilland Sea Hornet prototype PX 212 April 27 - Pilatus P-2 June June 9 - Avro Lincoln June ...

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1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. 1953 - Events. January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 12 - Estonian emigres find a government in exile in Oslo January 13 - Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugoslavia January 15 - Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying January 20 - Change of US presidency from Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) ...

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Sir William Rothenstein, (January 29, 1872 – February 14, 1945), was an English painter, draughtsman and writer on art. He was born in Bradford and studied at the Slade School of Art (his teachers including Alphonse Legros) and in Paris, where he met and was encouraged by James McNeill Whistler and Edgar Degas. He became known for his portrait drawings of famous individuals and was an ...

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Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA /'mo:dəl/) (January 24, 1891–April 21, 1945) was a German general, and later a Field Marshal, during World War II. He was noted for his defensive skills, and was nicknamed "Hitler's fireman". Model served as an infantry officer in World War I. During the Polish and French campaigns in 1939 and 1940 he served as a corps and army chief of staff. In the Russian campaign from 1941 until 1944 he served in succession as a division, corps, and army commander. In January 1944 Model was assigned a ...

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Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (January 18, 1925-May 8, 1989) was a conservative West German historian. Hillgruber was born in Angerburg, Germany (modern Wegorzewo, Poland) near the then East Prussian city of Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad, Russia). His father was a school teacher. Hillgruber served in the German Army in the years 1943-1945 and spent the years 1945-1948 as a POW in France. After his release, he studied at the University of Göttingen where he received a PhD in 1952. He spent the decade 1954-1964 working as school teacher. ...

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The Arrow Cross (Nyilaskereszt) originated in Hungary in the 1930s as the symbol of the leading Hungarian fascist political party, the Arrow Cross Party, led by Ferenc Szálasi, an ex-army major. Leaders of National Council of the Arrow Cross after Szálasi included Jeno Szollosi, Josef Gera and Ferenc Kassai-Schallmajer. In 1939 it numbered close to 500,000 members and won 31 seats in parliamentary elections. The Arrow Cross party lasted until the end of World War II in 1945. Subsequently, the symbol came to be used by other racist and anti-Semitic groups. From October 1944 - January 1945 the Arrow Cross sent 80 ...

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1945 in rail transport - January events. January 1 - The national railway operator in the Republic of Ireland, Great Southern Railways, with responsibility for the southern part of the Irish railway network is merged into a new national transport operator, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ). January 10 - Los Angeles streetcars make their last run. January 12 - Bituminous Coal Research Incorporated’s Locomotive Study Group, made up of representatives from eastern railroads and locomotive manu ...

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Sailing with sister ship Tang (SS-306), she stopped off at Midway on 12 June; glanced off a whale on 15 June, and, on 22 June, transited Tokara Strait to enter the East China Sea. On 23 June, she and Tang took up stations in the Osumi Gunto, an island group to the south of Kyushu. That afternoon, Sealion unsuccessfully conducted her first attack; then underwent her first depth charging. On 24 June, Tinosa (SS-283) joined the two submarines; and the group moved northward to patrol the approaches to Sasebo. P ...

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Refitted by submarine tender Fulton (AS-11), Sealion departed for the Bashi Channel and her second war patrol on 17 August. Hunting with submarines Growler (SS-215) and Pampanito (SS-383), she transited the channel and moved into the South China Sea on 30 August. During the pre-dawn hours of 31 August, she conducted a night surface attack against a Japanese convoy and heavily damaged a tanker. As Rikko Maru bellowed black smoke, other Japanese ships took Sealion under fire with deck guns. The submari ...

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From Saipan, Sealion returned to Hawaii. Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 30 September, she departed again on 31 October and, with sister ship Kete (SS-369), headed west to patrol in the East China Sea. The two submarines stopped off at Midway Island on 4 November; then continued on to their patrol area. Ten days later, Sealion transited Tokara Strait. On 16 November, her number 8 tube was accidentally fired with both doors closed. Heavy seas prevented a thorough inspection of the damage. On 17 November, she began patr ...

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She departed Fremantle on her fifth war patrol on 19 February. Again operating in a coordinated attack group, she returned to the South China Sea; then proceeded into the Gulf of Siam. In the predawn darkness of 17 March, she torpedoed and sank a small unescorted tanker, Samui; and, on 2 April, she rescued an Army aviator who had been drifting in a rubber raft for 23 days. That same day three more downed aviators were transferred to her from submarine Guavin ...

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Sawfish got underway on 17 December 1944 and returned to waters off Formosa where she spent her entire ninth war patrol on lifeguard station. She rescued a pilot on 21 January 1945 before heading toward Guam. She reached Apra Harbor on 4 February for refit. Sawfish sailed on 10 March for her 10th and last war patrol which she spent on lifeguard station off Nansei Shoto supporting air strikes preparing for and covering the conquest of Okinawa. She returned to Pearl Harbor on 26 Ap ...

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