1938
March 12 - 13, 1938 - Germany announces 'Anschluss' (union) with Austria.
May 15, 1938 - First appearance of Vanguard (I), a super-humanly strong and seemingly invulnerable mystery man who claimed he had been sent from another planet to protect Earth.
August 12, 1938- German military mobilizes.
September 30, 1938- British Prime Minister Chamberlain appeases Hitler at Munich.
October 15, 1938- German troops occupy the Sudetenland; Czech government resigns.
October 31, 1938- Less than six months after his initial appearance, Vanguard dies defending the citizens of Grover's Mill, New Jersey against unearthly "battle machines."
Nov 9 - 10, 1938 - Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass.

1939
January 30, 1939- Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.
February 12, 1939- The Sentinels of Justice form after a meeting organized by Doc Fury and chaired by the Golden Gauntlet. Fury paraphrases Thomas Jefferson, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and so my fellow mysterymen we must act as Sentinels of Liberty... of Justice").
March 15 - 16, 1939 - Nazis take Czechoslovakia.
March 28, 1939- Spanish Civil war ends.
May 22, 1939- Nazis sign 'Pact of Steel' with Italy.
August 23, 1939- Nazis and Soviets sign Pact.
August 25, 1939- Britain and Poland sign a Mutual Assistance Treaty.
August 31, 1939- British fleet mobilizes; Civilian evacuations begin from London.
September 1, 1939- Nazis invade Poland.
September 3, 1939- Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
September 4, 1939- British Royal Air Force attacks the German Navy.
September 5, 1939- United States proclaims neutrality; German troops cross the Vistula River in Poland.
September 10, 1939- Canada declares war on Germany; Battle of the Atlantic begins.
September 17, 1939- Soviets invade Poland.
September 27, 1939- Warsaw surrenders to Nazis; Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA).
September 29, 1939- Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland.
Oct, 1939 - Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany.
November 8, 1939- Assassination attempt on Hitler fails, foiled by young Gerhard Beowulf.
November 30, 1939- Soviets attack Finland.
December 14, 1939- Soviet Union expelled from the League of Nations.
December 21, 1939- Summoned by Hitler, Morrigan, the Celtic Goddess of War makes agreement to assist Axis powers.

1940
January 8, 1940- Rationing begins in Britain.
March 12, 1940- Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviets.
March 16, 1940- Germans bomb Scapa Flow naval base near Scotland.
April 9, 1940- Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
May 10, 1940 - Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister.
May 15, 1940 - Holland surrenders to the Nazis.
May 26, 1940 - Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk begins.
May 28, 1940 - Belgium surrenders to the Nazis.
June 3, 1940 - Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends.
June 10, 1940- Norway surrenders to the Nazis; Italy declares war on Britain and France.
June 14, 1940- Germans enter Paris.
June 16, 1940- Marshal Pétain becomes French Prime Minister.
June 18, 1940- Hitler and Mussolini meet in Munich; Soviets begin occupation of the Baltic States.
June 22, 1940- France signs an armistice with the Nazis.
June 23, 1940- Hitler tours Paris.
June 28, 1940- Britain recognizes Gen. Charles de Gaulle as the Free French leader.
July 1, 1940- German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.
July 5, 1940- French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain.
July 10, 1940- Battle of Britain begins.
July 23, 1940- Soviets take Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Aug 3 - 19, 1940 - Italians occupy British Somaliland in East Africa.
August 13, 1940- German bombing offensive against airfields and factories in England.
August 15, 1940- Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.
August 17, 1940- Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles.
Aug 23 - 24, 1940 - First German air raids on Central London.
Aug 25 - 26, 1940 - First British air raid on Berlin.
September 3, 1940- Hitler plans Operation Sealion (the invasion of Britain).
September 7, 1940- German Blitz against England begins.
September 13, 1940- Italians invade Egypt.
September 15, 1940- Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.
September 16, 1940- United States military conscription bill passed.
September 27, 1940- Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
October 7, 1940- German troops enter Romania.
October 12, 1940- Germans postpone Operation Sealion until Spring of 1941.
October 28, 1940- Italy invades Greece.
November 5, 1940- Roosevelt re-elected as U.S. president.
Nov 10 - 11, 1940 - A torpedo bomber raid cripples the Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy.
Nov 14 - 15, 1940 - Germans bomb Coventry, England.
November 20, 1940- Hungary joins the Axis Powers.
November 22, 1940- Greeks defeat the Italian 9th Army.
November 23, 1940- Romania joins the Axis Powers.
Dec 9 - 10, 1940 - British begin a western desert offensive in North Africa against the Italians.
Dec 29 - 30, 1940 - Massive German air raid on London.

1941
January 22, 1941- Tobruk in North Africa falls to the British and Australians.
February 11, 1941- British forces advance into Italian Somaliland in East Africa.
February 12, 1941- German General Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli, North Africa.
February 14, 1941- First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.
March 7, 1941- British forces arrive in Greece.
March 11, 1941- President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act.
March 27, 1941- A coup in Yugoslavia overthrows the pro-Axis government.
April 3, 1941- Pro-Axis regime set up in Iraq.
April 6, 1941- Nazis invade Greece and Yugoslavia.
April 14, 1941- Rommel attacks Tobruk.
April 17, 1941- Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis.
April 27, 1941- Greece surrenders to the Nazis.
May 1, 1941- German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
May 10, 1941- Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland.
May 10 - 11, 1941 - Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
May 15, 1941- Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt).
May 24, 1941- Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck.
May 27, 1941- Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy.
June, 1941- Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.
June 4, 1941- Pro-Allied government installed in Iraq.
June 8, 1941- Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
June 14, 1941- United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
June 21, 1941- Morrigan erects a protective barrier across Nazi Germany; no metahuman may cross it without falling under her power.
June 22, 1941- Germany attacks Soviet Union as Operation Barbarossa begins.
June 28, 1941- Germans capture Minsk.
July 3, 1941- Stalin calls for a scorched earth policy.
July 10, 1941- Germans cross the River Dnieper in the Ukraine.
July 12, 1941- Mutual Assistance agreement between British and Soviets.
July 14, 1941- British occupy Syria.
July 26, 1941- Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets in United States and suspends relations.
July 31, 1941- Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution.
August 1, 1941- United States announces an oil embargo against aggressor states.
August 14, 1941- Roosevelt and Churchill announce the Atlantic Charter.
August 20, 1941- Nazi siege of Leningrad begins.
September 1, 1941- Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars.
September 3, 1941- First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
September 19, 1941- Nazis take Kiev.
September 29, 1941- Nazis murder 33,771 Jews at Kiev.
October 2, 1941- Operation Typhoon begins (German advance on Moscow).
October 16, 1941- Germans take Odessa.
October 24, 1941- Germans take Kharkov.
October 30, 1941- Germans reach Sevastopol.
October 31, 1941- At the behest of Marshall Tojo, Morrigan erects a similar portective field over the Japanese home island. Curiously a similar request by Mussolini is ignored.
November 13, 1941- British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
November 20, 1941- Germans take Rostov.
November 27, 1941- Soviet troops retake Rostov.
December 5, 1941- German attack on Moscow is abandoned.
December 6, 1941- Soviet Army launches a major counter-offensive around Moscow.
December 7, 1941- Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Also attack the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand, Shanghai and Midway.  Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree.
December 8, 1941- U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Japanese land near Singapore and enter Thailand.
December 9, 1941- China declares war on Japan.
December 10, 1941- Japanese invade the Philippines and also seize Guam.
December 11, 1941- Japanese invade Burma.  Germany declares war on the United States.
December 15, 1941- First Japanese merchant ship sunk by a U.S. submarine.
December 16, 1941- Japanese invade British Borneo.  Rommel begins a retreat to El Agheila in North Africa.
December 18, 1941- Japanese invade Hong Kong.
December 19, 1941- Hitler takes complete command of the German Army.
December 22, 1941- Japanese invade Luzon in the Philippines.
December 23, 1941- Gen. MacArthur begins withdrawal from Manila to Bataan; Japanese take Wake Island.
December 25, 1941- British surrender at Hong Kong.
December 26, 1941- Manila declared an open city.
December 27, 1941- Japanese bomb Manila.

1942
January 1, 1942- Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
January 2, 1942- Manila and U.S. Naval base at Cavite captured by the Japanese.
January 7, 1942- Japanese attack Bataan in the Philippines.
January 11, 1942- Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo.
January 13, 1942- Germans begin a U-boat offensive along east coast of USA.
January 16, 1942- Japanese begin an advance into Burma.
January 18, 1942-German-Japanese-Italian military agreement signed in Berlin.
January 19, 1942- Japanese take North Borneo.
January 20, 1942- SS Leader Heydrich holds the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
January 21, 1942- Rommel's counter-offensive from El Agheila begins.
January 23, 1942- Japanese take Rabaul on New Britain in the Solomon Islands and also invade Bougainville, the largest island.
January 26, 1942- First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
January 27, 1942- First Japanese warship sunk by a U.S. submarine.
January 30 - 31, 1942 - The British withdraw into Singapore. The siege of Singapore then begins.
February 1, 1942- First U.S. aircraft carrier offensive of the war as YORKTOWN and ENTERPRISE conduct air raids on Japanese bases in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands.  FDR asks all heroes to band together with the Sentinels in a "Liberty League."
February 2, 1942- Japanese invade Java in the Dutch East Indies.
February 8 - 9, 1942 - Japanese invade Singapore.
February 14, 1942- Japanese invade Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies.
February 15, 1942- British surrender at Singapore.
February 19, 1942- Largest Japanese air raid since Pearl Harbor occurs against Darwin, Australia; Japanese invade Bali.
February 20, 1942- First U.S. fighter ace of the war, Lt. Edward O'Hare from the LEXINGTON in action off Rabaul.
February 22, 1942- President Roosevelt orders Gen. MacArthur out of the Philippines.
February 23, 1942- First Japanese attack on the U.S. mainland as a submarine shells an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, Calif.
February 24, 1942- ENTERPRISE attacks Japanese on Wake Island. Golden Gauntlet detects protective barrier before the Liberty League can cross it and fall under control of Axis. Further metahuman assistance to the armed forces limited to actions on the Home Front for time being.
February 26, 1942- First U.S. carrier, the LANGLEY, is sunk by Japanese bombers.
Feb 27 - March 1, 1942 -Japanese naval victory in the Battle of the Java Sea as the largest U.S. warship in the Far East, the HOUSTON, is sunk.
March 4, 1942- Two Japanese flying boats bomb Pearl Harbor; ENTERPRISE attacks Marcus Island, just 1000 miles from Japan.
March 7, 1942- British evacuate Rangoon in Burma; Japanese invade Salamaua and Lae on New Guinea.
March 8, 1942- The Dutch on Java surrender to Japanese.
March 11, 1942- Gen. MacArthur leaves Corregidor and is flown to Australia. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright becomes the new U.S. commander.
March 18, 1942- Gen. MacArthur appointed commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater by President Roosevelt.
March 18, 1942- War Relocation Authority established in the U.S. which eventually will round up 120,000 Japanese- Americans and transport them to barb-wired relocation centers. Despite the internment, over 17,000 Japanese-Americans sign up and fight for the U.S. in World War II in Europe, including the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the most decorated unit in U.S. history.
March 23, 1942- Japanese invade the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
March 24, 1942- Admiral Chester Nimitz appointed as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific theater.
April, 1942 - Japanese-Americans sent to relocation centers.
April 3, 1942- Japanese attack U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan.
April 6, 1942- First U.S. troops arrive in Australia.
April 9, 1942- U.S. forces on Bataan surrender unconditionally to the Japanese.
April 10, 1942- Bataan Death March begins as 76,000 Allied POWs including 12,000 Americans are forced to walk 60 miles under a blazing sun without food or water toward a new POW camp, resulting in over 5,000 American deaths.
April 18, 1942- Surprise U.S. "Doolittle" B-25 air raid from the HORNET against Tokyo boosts Allied morale.
April 23, 1942- German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.
April 29, 1942- Japanese take central Burma.
May 1, 1942- Japanese occupy Mandalay in Burma.
May 3, 1942- Japanese take Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
May 5, 1942- Japanese prepare to invade Midway and the Aleutian Islands.
May 6, 1942- Japanese take Corregidor as Gen. Wainwright unconditionally surrenders all U.S. and Filipino forces in the Philippines.
May 7 - 8, 1942- Japan suffers its first defeat of the war during the Battle of the Coral Sea off New Guinea -- the first time in history that two opposing carrier forces fought only using aircraft without the opposing ships ever sighting each other.
May 8, 1942- German summer offensive begins in the Crimea.
May 12, 1942- The last U.S. troops holding out in the Philippines surrender on Mindanao.
May 20, 1942- Japanese complete the capture of Burma and reach India.
May 26, 1942- Rommel begins an offensive against the Gazala Line.
May 27, 1942- SS Leader Heydrich attacked in Prague.
May 30, 1942- First thousand bomber British air raid (against Cologne).
June, 1942 - Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
June 4, 1942- Heydrich dies of wounds.
June 4 - 5, 1942 - Turning point in the war occurs with a decisive victory for the U.S. against Japan in the Battle of Midway as squadrons of U.S. torpedo planes and dive bombers from ENTERPRISE, HORNET, and YORKTOWN attack (supported by the Liberty Leaguer The Sea King) and destroy four Japanese carriers, a cruiser, and damage another cruiser and two destroyers. U.S. loses YORKTOWN.
June 5, 1942- Germans besiege Sevastopol.
June 7, 1942- Japanese invade the Aleutian Islands.
June 9, 1942- Japanese postpone further plans to take Midway.
June 10, 1942- Nazis liquidate Lidice in reprisal for Heydrich's assassination.
June 21, 1942- Rommel captures Tobruk.
June 25, 1942- Eisenhower arrives in London.
June 30, 1942- Rommel reaches El Alamein near Cairo, Egypt.
July 1 - 30, 1942 - First Battle of El Alamein.
July 3, 1942- Germans take Sevastopol.
July 5, 1942- Soviet resistance in the Crimea ends.
July 9, 1942- Germans begin a drive toward Stalingrad in the USSR.
July 21, 1942- Japanese land troops near Gona on New Guinea.
July 22, 1942- First deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to concentration camps; Treblinka extermination camp opened.
August 7, 1942- The first U.S. amphibious landing of the Pacific War occurs as 1st Marine Division invades Tulagi and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. British General Bernard Montgomery takes command of Eighth Army in North Africa.
August 8, 1942- U.S. Marines take the unfinished airfield on Guadalcanal and name it Henderson Field after Maj. Lofton Henderson, a hero of Midway.
August 8 - 9, 1942 - A major U.S. naval disaster off Savo Island, north of Guadalcanal, as eight Japanese warships wage a night attack and sink three U.S. heavy cruisers, an Australian cruiser, and one U.S. destroyer, all in less than an hour. Another U.S. cruiser and two destroyers are damaged. Over 1,500 Allied crewmen are lost.
August 12, 1942- Stalin and Churchill meet in Moscow.
August 17, 1942- 122 U.S. Marine raiders, transported by submarine, attack Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.  First all-American air attack in Europe.
August 21, 1942- U.S. Marines repulse first major Japanese ground attack on Guadalcanal.
August 23, 1942- Massive German air raid on Stalingrad.
August 24, 1942- U.S. and Japanese carriers meet in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons resulting in a Japanese defeat.
August 29, 1942- The Red Cross announces Japan refuses to allow safe passage of ships containing supplies for U.S. POWs.
August 30, 1942- U.S. troops invade Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands.
September 2, 1942- Rommel driven back by Montgomery in the Battle of Alam Halfa.
September 9 - 10, 1942 - A Japanese floatplane flies two missions dropping incendiary bombs on U.S. forests in the state of Oregon the only bombing of the continental U.S. during the war. Newspapers in the U.S. voluntarily withhold this information.
September 12 - 14, 1942- Battle of Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal.
September 13, 1942- Battle of Stalingrad begins.
September 15, 1942- A Japanese submarine torpedo attack near the Solomon Islands results in the sinking of the Carrier WASP, Destroyer O'BRIEN and damage to the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA.
September 27, 1942- British offensive in Burma.
October 5, 1942- A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder.
October 11 - 12, 1942 - U.S. cruisers and destroyers defeat a Japanese task force in the Battle of Cape Esperance off Guadalcanal.
October 13, 1942- The first U.S. Army troops, the 164th Infantry Regiment, land on Guadalcanal.
October 14 - 15, 1942 - Japanese bombard Henderson Field at night from warships then send troops ashore onto Guadalcanal in the morning as U.S. planes attack.
October 15 - 17, 1942- Japanese bombard Henderson Field at night again from warships.
October 18, 1942- Vice Admiral William F. Halsey named as the new commander of the South Pacific Area, in charge of the Solomons-New Guinea campaign. Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos.
October 26, 1942- Battle of Santa Cruz off Guadalcanal between U.S. and Japanese warships results in the loss of the Carrier HORNET.
November 1, 1942- Operation Supercharge (Allies break Axis lines at El Alamein).
November 8, 1942- Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa). War Department authorizes the creation of "the Light Brigade" -- a portion of the Liberty League that will support Allied armed forces in Europe.
November 11, 1942- Germans and Italians invade unoccupied Vichy France.
November 14 - 15, 1942 - U.S. and Japanese warships clash again off Guadalcanal resulting in the sinking of the U.S. Cruiser JUNEAU and the deaths of the five Sullivan brothers.
November 19, 1942- Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad begins.
November 23 - 24, 1942 - Japanese air raid on Darwin, Australia.
November 30 - 31, 1942 - Battle of Tasafaronga off Guadalcanal.
December 2, 1942- Enrico Fermi conducts the worlds first nuclear chain reaction test at the University of Chicago.
December 2, 1942- Professor Enrico Fermi sets up an atomic reactor in Chicago.
December 13, 1942- Rommel withdraws from El Agheila.
December 16, 1942- Soviets defeat Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR.
December 17, 1942- British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
December 20 - 24, 1942 - Japanese air raids on Calcutta, India.
December 31, 1942- Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives permission to his troops to withdraw from Guadalcanal after five months of bloody fighting against U.S. forces.  Battle of the Barents Sea between German and British ships.

1943
January 2, 1943- Allies take Buna in New Guinea.
January 2 - 3, 1943 - Germans begin a withdrawal from the Caucasus.
January 10, 1943- Soviets begin an offensive against the Germans in Stalingrad.
January 14 - 24, 1943 - Casablanca conference between Churchill and Roosevelt. During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with an unconditional German surrender.
January 22, 1943- Allies defeat Japanese at Sanananda on New Guinea.
January 23, 1943- Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli.
January 27, 1943- First bombing raid by Americans on Germany (at Wilhelmshaven).
February 1, 1943- Japanese begin evacuation of Guadalcanal.
February 2, 1943- Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
February 8, 1943- Soviet troops take Kursk.  British-Indian forces begin guerrilla operations against Japanese in Burma.
February 9, 1943- Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal ends.
February 14 - 25, 1943 - Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa.
February 16, 1943- Soviets re-take Kharkov.
February 18, 1943- Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich.
March 2 - 4, 1943 - U.S. victory over Japanese in the Battle of Bismarck Sea. Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa.
March 10, 1943- The Liberty League faces the Uber-Staffel for the first time.
March 15, 1943- Germans re-capture Kharkov.
March 16 - 20, 1943 - Battle of Atlantic climaxes with 27 merchant ships sunk by German U-boats.
March 20 - 28, 1943 - Montgomery's Eighth Army breaks through the Mareth Line in Tunisia.
April 6 - 7, 1943 - Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link.
April 18, 1943- U.S. code breakers pinpoint the location of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto flying in a Japanese bomber near Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. Eighteen P-38 fighters then locate and shoot down Yamamoto.
April 19, 1943- Waffen SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.
April 21, 1943- President Roosevelt announces the Japanese have executed several airmen from the Doolittle Raid.
April 22, 1943- Japan announces captured Allied pilots will be given "one way tickets to hell."
May 7, 1943- Allies take Tunisia.
May 10, 1943- U.S. troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands.
May 13, 1943- German and Italian troops surrender in North Africa.
May 14, 1943- A Japanese submarine sinks the Australian hospital ship CENTAUR resulting in 299 dead.
May 16, 1943- Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends.
May 16 - 17, 1943 - British air raid on the Ruhr.
May 22, 1943- Dönitz suspends U-boat operations in the North Atlantic.
May 31, 1943- Japanese end their occupation of the Aleutian Islands as the U.S. completes the capture of Attu.
June 1, 1943- U.S. begins submarine warfare against Japanese shipping.
June 10, 1943- 'Pointblank' directive to improve Allied bombing strategy issued.
June 11, 1943- Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland.
June 21, 1943- Allies advance to New Georgia, Solomon Islands.
July 5, 1943- Germans begin their last offensive against Kursk.
July 8, 1943- B24 Liberators flying from Midway bomb Japanese on Wake Island.
July 9 - 10, 1943 - Allies land in Sicily.
July 19, 1943- Allies bomb Rome.
July 22, 1943- Americans capture Palermo, Sicily.
July 24, 1943- British bombing raid on Hamburg.
July 25 - 26, 1943 - Mussolini arrested and the Italian Fascist government falls; Marshal Pietro Badoglio takes over and negotiates with Allies.
July 27 - 28, 1943 - Allied air raid causes a firestorm in Hamburg.
Aug 1-2, 1943 - A group of 15 U.S. PT- boats attempt to block Japanese convoys south of Kolombangra Island in the Solomon Islands. PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, is rammed and sunk by the Japanese Cruiser AMAGIRI, killing two and badly injuring others. The crew survives as Kennedy aids one badly injured man by towing him to a nearby atoll.
Aug 6 - 7, 1943 - Battle of Vella Gulf in the Solomon Islands.
Aug 12 - 17, 1943 - Germans evacuate Sicily.
August 17, 1943- American daylight air raids on Regensburg and Schweinfurt in Germany; Allies reach Messina, Sicily.
August 23, 1943- Soviet troops recapture Kharkov.
August 25, 1943- Allies complete the occupation of New Georgia.
September 4, 1943- Allies recapture Lae-Salamaua, New Guinea.
September 8, 1943- Italian surrender is announced.
September 9, 1943- Allied landings at Salerno and Taranto.
September 11, 1943- Germans occupy Rome.
September 12, 1943- Germans rescue Mussolini.
September 23, 1943- Mussolini re-establishes a Fascist government.
October 1, 1943- Allies enter Naples, Italy.
October 4, 1943- SS Reichsführer Himmler gives speech at Posen.
October 7, 1943- Japanese execute approximately 100 American POWs on Wake Island.
October 13, 1943- Italy declares war on Germany; Second American air raid on Schweinfurt.
October 26, 1943- Emperor Hirohito states his country's situation is now "truly grave."
November 1, 1943- U.S. Marines invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
November 2, 1943- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
November 6, 1943- Russians recapture Kiev in the Ukraine.
November 18, 1943- Large British air raid on Berlin.
November 20, 1943- U.S. troops invade Makin and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands.
November 23, 1943- Japanese end resistance on Makin and Tarawa.
November 28, 1943- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Teheran.
December 15, 1943- U.S. troops land on the Arawe Peninsula of New Britain in the Solomon Islands.
Dec 24 - 26, 1943 - Soviets launch offensives on the Ukrainian front.
December 26, 1943- Full Allied assault on New Britain as 1st Division Marines invade Cape Gloucester.

1944
January 6, 1944- Soviet troops advance into Poland.
January 9, 1944- British and Indian troops recapture Maungdaw in Burma.
January 17, 1944- First attack toward Cassino, Italy.
January 22, 1944- Allies land at Anzio.
January 27, 1944- Leningrad relieved after a 900 day siege.
January 31, 1944- U.S. troops invade Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands.
Feb 1 - 7, 1944 - U.S. troops capture Kwajalein and Majura Atolls in the Marshall Islands.
Feb 15 - 18, 1944 - Allies bomb the monastery at Monte Cassino.
February 16, 1944- Germans counter-attack against the Anzio beachhead.
Feb 17 - 18, 1944 - U.S. carrier-based planes destroy the Japanese naval base at Truk in the Caroline Islands.
February 20, 1944- U.S. carrier-based and land-based planes destroy the Japanese base at Rabaul.
February 23, 1944- U.S. carrier-based planes attack the Mariana Islands.
February 24, 1944- Merrill's Marauders begin a ground campaign in northern Burma.
March 4, 1944- Soviet troops begin an offensive on the Belorussian front; First major daylight bombing raid on Berlin by the Allies.
March 5, 1944- Gen. Wingate's groups begin operations behind Japanese lines in Burma.
March 15, 1944- Japanese begin offensive toward Imphal and Kohima.  Second Allied attempt to capture Monte Cassino begins.
March 18, 1944- British drop 3000 tons of bombs during an air raid on Hamburg, Germany.
March 25, 1944- Citing a need for more time to research a way to penetrate the mystic shield over the Axis powers, the Golden Gauntlet steps down as leader of the Liberty League in favor of Barnstormer, who in trun hands over leadership of the Light Brigade to Gladius.
April 8, 1944- Soviet troops begin an offensive to liberate Crimea.
April 17, 1944- Japanese begin their last offensive in China, attacking U.S. air bases in eastern China.
April 22, 1944- Allies invade Aitape and Hollandia in New Guinea.
May 9, 1944- Soviet troops recapture Sevastopol.
May 11, 1944- Allies attack the Gustav Line south of Rome.
May 12, 1944- Germans surrender in the Crimea.
May 15, 1944- Germans withdraw to the Adolf Hitler Line.
May 25, 1944- Germans retreat from Anzio.
May 27, 1944- Allies invade Biak Island, New Guinea.
June 5, 1944- The first mission by B-29 Superfortress bombers occurs as 77 planes bomb Japanese railway facilities at Bangkok, Thailand.   Allies enter Rome.
June 6, 1944- D-Day landings. Half of the Light Brigade lose their lives in the battle.
June 9, 1944- Soviet offensive against the Finnish front begins.
June 10, 1944- Nazis liquidate the town of Oradour-sur-Glane in France.
June 13, 1944- First German V-1 rocket attack on Britain.
June 15, 1944- U.S. Marines invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
June 15 - 16, 1944 - The first bombing raid on Japan since the Doolittle raid of April 1942, as 47 B-29s based in Bengel, India, target the steel works at Yawata.
June 19, 1944- The "Marianas Turkey Shoot" occurs as U.S. carrier-based fighters shoot down 220 Japanese planes, while only 20 American planes are lost.
June 22, 1944- Operation Bagration begins (the Soviet summer offensive).
June 27, 1944- U.S. troops liberate Cherbourg.
July 3, 1944- 'Battle of the Hedgerows' in Normandy; Soviets capture Minsk.
July 8, 1944- Japanese withdraw from Imphal.
July 9, 1944- British and Canadian troops capture Caen.
July 18, 1944- U.S. troops reach St. Lô.
July 19, 1944- U.S. Marines invade Guam in the Marianas.
July 20, 1944- German assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
July 24, 1944- U.S. Marines invade Tinian.  Soviet troops liberate first concentration camp at Majdanek.
July 25 - 30, 1944 - Operation Cobra (U.S. troops break out west of St. Lô).
July 27, 1944- American troops complete the liberation of Guam.
July 28, 1944- Soviet troops take Brest-Litovsk. U.S. troops take Coutances.
August 1, 1944- Polish Home Army uprising against Nazis in Warsaw begins; U.S. troops reach Avranches.
August 3, 1944- U.S. and Chinese troops take Myitkyina after a two month siege.
August 4, 1944- Anne Frank and family arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, Holland.
August 7, 1944- Germans begin a major counter- attack toward Avranches.
August 8, 1944- American troops complete the capture of the Mariana Islands.
August 15, 1944- Operation Dragoon begins (the Allied invasion of Southern France).
August 19, 1944- Resistance uprising in Paris, assisted by members of the Light Brigade.
August 19 - 20, 1944 - Soviet offensive in the Balkans begins with an attack on Romania.
August 20, 1944- Allies encircle Germans in the Falaise Pocket.
August 25, 1944- Liberation of Paris.
August 29, 1944- Slovak uprising begins.
August 31, 1944- Soviet troops take Bucharest.
September 1 - 4, 1944 - Verdun, Dieppe, Artois, Rouen, Abbeville, Antwerp and Brussels liberated by Allies.
September 4, 1944- Finland and the Soviet Union agree to a cease-fire.
September 11-17, 1944- The Liberty League is able to assist in a coup in the hidden arctic kingdom of Thule, allied up to that point with the Nazis. The new regime promised to remain neutral for the rest of the War, and members of the League discovered that Ice Maiden, who had been fighting by their side for months, was a member of the royal family.
September 13, 1944- U.S. troops reach the Siegfried Line.
September 15, 1944- U.S. troops invade Morotai and the Paulaus.
September 17, 1944- Operation Market Garden begins (Allied airborne assault on Holland).
September 26, 1944- Soviet troops occupy Estonia.
October 2, 1944- Warsaw Uprising ends as the Polish Home Army surrenders to the Germans.
October 10 - 29, 1944 - Soviet troops capture Riga.
October 11, 1944- U.S. air raids against Okinawa.
October 14, 1944- Allies liberate Athens; Rommel commits suicide.
October 18, 1944- Fourteen B-29s based on the Marianas attack the Japanese base at Truk.
October 20, 1944- U.S. Sixth Army invades Leyte in the Philippines.
October 21, 1944- Massive German surrender at Aachen.
October 23 - 26, 1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf results in a decisive U.S. Naval victory.
October 25, 1944- The first suicide air (Kamikaze) attacks occur against U.S. warships in Leyte Gulf. By the end of the war, Japan will have sent an estimated 2,257 aircraft. "The only weapon I feared in the war," Adm. Halsey will say later.
October 30, 1944- Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
November 11, 1944- Iwo Jima bombarded by the U.S. Navy.
November 17, 1944- American Corporal Tom Slade is scheduled to be executed for killing three fellow soldiers in a brawl, when an accident sets off explosives in his camp. He is the only survivor, protected by the brig. Trapped inside he almost dies of starvation before Morrigan came to him and gives him the Sword of Ares after setting him free. Slade becomes the avatar of the god of war, and runs amok behind American lines, brutally killing his own countrymen.
November 20, 1944- French troops drive through the 'Beffort Gap' to reach the Rhine.
November 24, 1944- French capture Strasbourg.  Twenty four B-29s bomb the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo.
November 25, 1944- Athena and Gladius eventually track down Ares and imprison him, but they underestimate his super-human strength, and he eventually breaks free.
December 4, 1944- Civil War in Greece; Athens placed under martial law.
December 15, 1944- U.S. troops invade Mindoro in the Philippines.
December 16 - 27, 1944 - Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes.
December 17, 1944- The U.S. Army Air Force begins preparations for dropping the Atomic Bomb by establishing the 509th CompositeGroup to operate the B-29s that will deliver the bomb.  Waffen SS murder 81 U.S. POWs at Malmedy.
December 26, 1944- Patton relieves Bastogne.
December 27, 1944- Soviet troops besiege Budapest.

1945
January 1 - 17, 1945 - Germans withdraw from the Ardennes.
January 3, 1945- Gen. MacArthur is placed in command of all U.S. ground forces and Adm. Nimitz in command of all naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan itself.
January 4, 1945- British occupy Akyab in Burma.
January 9, 1945- U.S. Sixth Army invades Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in the Philippines.
January 11, 1945- Air raid against Japanese bases in Indochina by U.S. carrier-based planes.
January 16, 1945- U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies link up after a month long separation during the Battle of the Bulge.
January 17, 1945- Soviet troops capture Warsaw.
January 26, 1945- Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
January 28, 1945- The Burma road is re-opened.
February 3, 1945- U.S. Sixth Army attacks Japanese in Manila.
February 4 - 11, 1945 - Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin meet at Yalta.
February 13 - 14, 1945 - Dresden is destroyed by a firestorm after Allied bombing raids.
February 16, 1945- U.S. troops recapture Bataan in the Philippines.
February 19, 1945- U.S. Marines invade Iwo Jima.
February 21, 1945 - Morrigan steals Godslayer (an enchanted Mauser) as uses it on the Avatars of Thor, Loki, and Mercury (all working for the Axis) then disappears.
March 1, 1945- A U.S. submarine sinks a Japanese merchant ship loaded with supplies for Allied POWs, resulting in a court martial for the captain of the submarine, since the ship had been granted safe passage by the U.S. government.
March 2, 1945- U.S. airborne troops recapture Corregidor in the Philippines.
March 3, 1945- U.S. and Filipino troops take Manila.
March 6, 1945- Last German offensive of the war begins to defend oil fields in Hungary.
March 7, 1945- Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
March 9 - 10, 1945 - Fifteen square miles of Tokyo erupts in flames after it is fire bombed by 279 B29s.
March 10, 1945- U.S. Eighth Army invades Zamboanga Peninsula on Mindanao in the Philippines.
March 20, 1945- British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
March 27, 1945- B-29s lay mines in Japan's Shimonoseki Strait to interrupt shipping.
March 30, 1945- Soviet troops capture Danzig.
April, 1945 - Allies discover stolen Nazi art and wealth hidden in salt mines.
April 1, 1945- The final amphibious landing of the war occurs as the U.S. Tenth Army invades Okinawa.  U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr; Allied offensive in North Italy.
April 7, 1945- B29s fly their first fighter-escorted mission against Japan with P-51 Mustangs based on Iwo Jima; U.S. carrier-based fighters sink the super battleship YAMATO and several escort vessels which planned to attack U.S. forces at Okinawa.
April 12, 1945- Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps; President Roosevelt dies. Truman becomes President.
April 16, 1945- Soviet troops begin their final attack on Berlin; Americans enter Nuremberg.
April 18, 1945- German forces in the Ruhr surrender.
April 21, 1945- Soviets reach Berlin.
April 28, 1945- Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans; Allies take Venice.
April 29, 1945- U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.
April 30, 1945- Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
May 2, 1945- German troops in Italy surrender.
May 7, 1945- Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
May 8, 1945- V-E (Victory in Europe) Day. Liberty League membership at all time high. Light Brigade transferred to Pacific Theatre.
May 9, 1945- Hermann Göring is captured by members of the U.S. 7th Army.
May 20, 1945- Japanese begin withdrawal from China.
May 23, 1945- SS Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide; German High Command and Provisional Government imprisoned.
May 25, 1945- U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff approve Operation Olympic, the invasion of Japan, scheduled for November 1.
June 5, 1945- Allies divide up Germany and Berlin and take over the government.
June 9, 1945- Japanese Premier Suzuki announces Japan will fight to the very end rather than accept unconditional surrender.
June 18, 1945- Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao in the Philippines.
June 22, 1945- Japanese resistance ends on Okinawa as the U.S. Tenth Army completes its capture.
June 26, 1945- United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
June 28, 1945- MacArthur's headquarters announces the end of all Japanese resistance in the Philippines.
July 1, 1945- U.S., British, and French troops move into Berlin.
July 5, 1945- Liberation of Philippines declared.
July 10, 1945- 1000 bomber raids against Japan begin.
July 14, 1945- The first U.S. Naval bombardment of Japanese home islands.
July 16, 1945- First Atomic Bomb is successfully tested in the U.S.  Potsdam Conference begins.
July 26, 1945- Components of the Atomic Bomb "Little Boy" are unloaded at Tinian Island in the South Pacific. Atlee succeeds Churchill as British Prime Minister.
July 29, 1945- A Japanese submarine sinks the Cruiser INDIANAPOLIS resulting in the loss of 881 crewmen. The ship sinks before a radio message can be sent out leaving survivors adrift for two days.
August 6, 1945- First Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima from a B-29 flown by Col. Paul Tibbets.
August 8, 1945- U.S.S.R. declares war on Japan then invades Manchuria.
August 9, 1945- Second Atomic Bomb is dropped on Nagasaki from a B-29 flown by Maj. Charles Sweeney. Emperor Hirohito and Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki then decide to seek an immediate peace with the Allies.
August 14, 1945- Japanese accept unconditional surrender; Gen. MacArthur is appointed to head the occupation forces in Japan.
August 16, 1945- Gen. Wainwright, a POW since May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria.
August 27, 1945- B29s drop supplies to Allied POWs in China.
August 29, 1945- The Soviets shoot down a B-29 dropping supplies to POWs in Korea; U.S. troops land near Tokyo to begin the occupation of Japan.
August 30, 1945- The British re-occupy Hong Kong.
September 2, 1945- Formal Japanese surrender ceremony on board the MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay as 1000 carrier- based planes fly overhead; President Truman declares VJ Day. First and only time full membership of the Liberty League is all present in same location.
September 3, 1945- The Japanese commander in the Philippines, Gen. Yamashita, surrenders to Gen. Wainwright at Baguio.
September 4, 1945- Japanese troops on Wake Island surrender.
September 5, 1945- British land in Singapore.
September 8, 1945- MacArthur enters Tokyo.
September 9, 1945- Japanese in Korea surrender.
September 13, 1945- Japanese in Burma surrender.
October 24, 1945- United Nations is officially born.
November 20, 1945- Nuremberg war crimes trials begin.

1946
May 8, 1946- On the first anniversary of VE Day, the Liberty League offically disbands, though the majority of its members are still active and fighting threats like Dr. Ragnarok.
October 16, 1946- Hermann Göring commits suicide two hours before his scheduled execution.

1947
March 21, 1947- Doctor Ragnarok and his elite minions are defeated in a battle royale against nearly a dozen super-heroes. Ragnarok and the majority of the heroes (Mr. Molecule, Lady Arcane, the Twilight Man, Short-wave, Zak Kosmos: Man of Tomorrow, Liberty Bill, Blue Streak, and U.S.Angel) are presumed killed, but will reappear nearly thirty years later from the Omega Zone for the intervening years.

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