1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb.
1943 German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of Vatican City.
1944 Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far"
1945 Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.
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