1942 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps.
1944 705 British bombers attack Essen.
1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed.
1945 British premier Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg).
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945.
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