1778 – Stockbridge
Massacre (American Revolutionary War)
1864 – Battle of Jonesborough begins (US Civil War)
1918 – Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin begins (WWI)
1920 – Battle of Komarow (Polish-Bolshevik War)
1939 – Gleiwitz incident (WWII)
1943 – Attack on Marcus Island begins (Naval); Soviets take
Glukhov and Rylsk (WWII)
1944 – Attack of the Volcano Islands begins (Naval);
Ukrainians take Bucharest (WWII)
11th Armoured Division Sherman tanks advance across open fields near Les Thillers-en-Vexin, 31 August 1944.
A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys as British forces
arrive, 31 August 1944. The woman in the foreground is a 'Madame
Scarlett', wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel des
Fleurs.
Bucharesters greet the Red Army (Second Ukranian Front)
entering the city (31 August, 1944).
1946 – Battle of
Rugao-Huangqiao ends; Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket ends (Chinese Civil War)
1950 – Second Battle
of Naktong Bulge begins (Korean War) 1951 – Battle of the
Punchbowl begins (Korean War)
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