Homma Masaharu

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Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.

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People celebrate in Times Square in New York City, New York on V-E Day (Victory in Europe), May 8, 1945.

70th Anniversary of V-E Day

Landing craft (American) of World War II. Normandy invasion, WWII, D-Day, infographic. SPOTLIGHT VERSION.

Types of Landing Craft of World War II Infographic

Aerial view of Asakusa, Tokyo heavily damaged by the World War II March 1945 US fire bombing raids of Tokyo.Tokyo famous for the Senso-ji a Buddhist temple that survived the air raids. Allied firebombing of Tokyo 1945. Fire bomb Tokyo. WWII, World War II

Anniversary of the Tokyo Firebombing

Map/infographic of the Dunkirk Evacuation May 26-June 4, 1940. World War II. France. SPOTLIGHT VERSION.

Timeline of the Dunkirk Evacuation

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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

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History of Technology Timeline

The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

New Seven Wonders of the World

Happy, smiling, flying pig

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar

Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		Mar 30, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 13, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Nov 23, 2023
	Deleted Web site: Honma Masaharu.	Yamini Chauhan	Oct 22, 2013
	Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Masaharu Homma.	Swati Chopra	Feb 19, 2012
	Article revised and updated.	Amy Tikkanen	Jul 13, 2007
	Article revised and updated.	Amy Tikkanen	May 15, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998