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During 1944 and 1945, the protracted and bloody Battle for Hurtgenwald was fought on Duren's district area. Duren was completely destroyed by Allied air bombings.

Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

During Leyte Gulf, when it became apparent that the ship could not sustain further damage, her captain, Rear Admiral Inoguchi, attempted to run her aground on a nearby island. Musashi sank at 19:36, having been overwhelmed by 27bomb and 29 torpedoes hits.

Largest battle in the history of naval warfare. After US troops invaded Leyte island ,as part of a strategy aimed at isolating Japan from the countries it had occupied in SE Asia, Japan mobilized nearly all it's vesels in an attempt to defeat the invasion.

Between 221 October the First Army suffered roughly 5,000 casualties in Aachen, while the Germans lost an estimated 5,000 soldiers as casualties and another 5,600 as prisoners of war. Aachen was the first German city to fall in the west.