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Remembering D-Day: June 6, 1944

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 3 Comments

Although the term D-Day is used routinely as military lingo for the day an operation or event will take place, for many it is also synonymous with June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and…

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Mar 4, 1944: The Head of Murder, Inc. is Executed

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Lepke was the leader of the country’s largest crime syndicate throughout the 1930s and was making nearly $50 million a year from his…

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Dec 27, 1944: FDR Seizes Control of Montgomery Ward

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On this day in 1944, as World War II dragged on, President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders his secretary of war to seize properties belonging to the Montgomery Ward company because the company refused to comply with a labor agreement. In…

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Dec 23, 1944: The Execution of Eddie Slovik is Authorized

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

On this day, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower endorses the finding of a court-martial in the case of Eddie Slovik, who was tried for desertion, and authorizes his execution, the first such sentence against a U.S. Army soldier since the Civil War,…

Dec 16, 1944: Battle of the Bulge

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On this day, the Germans launch the last major offensive of the war, Operation Mist, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, an attempt to push the Allied front line west from northern France to…