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| What historical events, besides your own birth, occurred on your birthday in the year you were born?   1/26/1945 1. On January 26, 1945, Audie Murphy single-handedly held off an entire company of German soldiers at the Colmar Pocket, an action that earned him the Medal of Honor. Born in Texas on June 20, 1925, Audie Murphy dropped out of school in fifth grade to pick cotton for a dollar a day to support his family.Jan 26, 2017 His commentary on 60 Minutes was famous. https://www.mysticstamp.com/info/this-day-in-history-january-26-1945/ 2.World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later. Reference:https://takemeback.to/26-January-1945 3. Soviet forces reached Auschwitz and begin the liberation of several concentration camps located there. 4.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1945#January_26,_1945_(Friday) The Battle for the Kapelsche Veer began in the Netherlands. The battle of the Heiligenbeil Pocket began on the Eastern Front. The Przyszowice massacre began in Upper Silesia. Between this day and January 28, soldiers of the Red Army killed between 54 and 69 civilian inhabitants of the Polish village of Przyszowice. The reason for the massacre remains unknown. American Lt. Audie Murphy earned the Medal of Honor near Holtzwihr, France when he saved his company from potential encirclement by climbing onto a burning U.S. tank destroyer and single-handedly killing or wounding 50 Germans with its .50 caliber machine gun until its ammunition was exhausted. Despite taking a leg wound Murphy made his way back to his company and organized a counterattack that forced the Germans to withdraw.[29] British frigate HMS Manners was torpedoed and broken in two in the Irish Sea by German submarine U-1051, which was then sunk in turn by depth charges from Royal Navy frigates. The war film Objective, Burma! starring Errol Flynn premiered in New York City. Born: Jacqueline du Pré, cellist, in Oxford, England (d. 1987) A lot of war events started on this day. THE END |
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