1915: British and French warships once again attacked the Ottoman defences at the Dardanelles. The Turks had worked hard to rectify the weaknesses exposed by the Allied attacks of the previous month. Mines proved their most effective weapon; the old battleshipsIrresistible and Ocean, and the French Bouvet, were all sunk, and the battlecruiser Inflexible damaged. Admiral de Robeck called off the attack, not realising that the Turks themselves were on the verge of collapse.

1939: Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov proposed (for the second time in a year), that France, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Great Britain and the USSR join together to form a pact to stop Adolf Hitler. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, probably due to distrust of the Soviet Union, felt that this course of action was premature

1942: Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Queen Victoria's grandson, is named Chief of Combined Operations

The US Government creates the War Relocation Authority to "take all people of Japanese descent into custody, surround them with troops, prevent them from buying land, and return them to their former homes at the close of the war." As a result, 120,000 men, women, and children were rounded up on the West Coast. Three categories of internees were created - Nisei (native US citizens of Japanese immigrant parents), Issei (Japanese immigrants), and Kibei (native US citizens educated largely in Japan).

The internees were transported to one of ten relocation centres in California, Utah, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming.

One Japanese American, Gordon Hirabayashi, fought internment all the way to the Supreme Court. He argued that the Army, responsible for effecting the relocations, had violated his rights as a US citizen. The court ruled against him, citing the nation's right to protect itself against sabotage and invasion as sufficient justification for curtailing his and other Japanese Americans' constitutional rights

1943: Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of the Imperial Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbour was killed in an aerial ambush. American Intelligence decoded signals that provided the timetable for Yamamoto's flight and his aircraft was intercepted and shot down near Bougainville by American P-38 Lightnings from Guadalcanal.

1944: Bomber Command mounted an accurate and devastating attack on Frankfurt with 846 aircraft, losing 22. Over 1,000 aircraft were over German and Occupied territory that night, with a heavy minelaying effort along the German coast, and numerous Mosquitoes on diversionary and intruder missions. Several Special Duties aircraft dropped supplies to Resistance groups, whilst 617 Squadron successfully mounted a small precision bombing raid on an explosives factory at Bergerac.

1945: At Meiktila in Burma, Lieutenant Karamjeet Singh Judge, of the 15th Punjab Regiment, distinguished himself repeatedly leading his platoon in an attack on a cotton mill held by the Japanese. He led his men in capturing no less than ten Japanese strong-points. At an eleventh, he guided a supporting tank to bombard the bunker at point-blank range. However, when he then went forward alone to complete the clearance of the bunker, he was hit and mortally wounded. His gallantry throughout the day was recognised by a posthumous Victoria Cross.

Allied aircraft carriers began the 3 month Okinawa campaign. The USS Franklin & Wasp are badly damaged by kamikaze attacks. The Franklin suffered 832 dead, making it the second largest number of casualties on a US warship during WW2.