Today in WWII History

Audio Clip: For this memorial day weekend we bring you a couple clips. The first clip is a news report from 1941 about the sinking of the HMS Hood.

World War II History for May 22

22 May 1939 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the “Pact of Steel.”

22 May 1944 – Operation Chattanooga Choo-Choo began.

Operation Chattanooga Choo-Choo was an allied offensive by fighter-bombers of the British 2nd Tactical Air Force and US 9th Air force (21-28 May, 1944) against German locomotives and rolling stock in northern Europe. The object of the the offensive was to reduce the quantities of such equipment available to the Germans as a means of reinforcing their armies in north-west France once Operation ‘Overlord’ had been launched.