air forces. Most of the 11 raids by U.S. Army Air Forces long-range
bomber units between November 1944 and March 1945 targeted the naval
base and dockyard facilities on the island, though several minelaying
missions were conducted in nearby waters. After the American bombers
were redeployed, the British Royal Air Force assumed responsibility for
minelaying operations near Singapore and these continued until 24 May
1945. While significant damage was inflicted on Singapore's important
naval base and commercial port (damage at docks pictured), some raids on
these targets were not successful and other attacks on oil storage
facilities on nearby islands were ineffective. The minelaying campaign
disrupted Japanese shipping in the area, causing some loss and damage,
but was not decisive. The Allied air attacks raised the morale of
Singapore's civilian population, who believed that the raids marked the
impending liberation of the city. Civilian casualties were limited,
though one attack rendered hundreds homeless and civilian workers were
killed during attacks on military facilities.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Singapore_(1944%E2%80%9345)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1643:
First English Civil War: Parliamentary forces serving under Sir
William Waller led a successful surprise attack on a winter garrison of
Royalist infantry and cavalry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alton>
1758:
While transporting Acadians from Prince Edward Island to
France, the Duke William sank in the North Atlantic with the loss of
over 360 lives, one of the greatest marine disasters in Canadian
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_William_(ship)>
1937:
Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces captured Nanjing in
China and then began to commit numerous atrocities over the next several
weeks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre>
1989:
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army engaged in
a fierce firefight with the King's Own Scottish Borderers at a vehicle
checkpoint complex in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Derryard_checkpoint>
2001:
The Parliament of India was attacked by five gunmen, resulting
in 12 deaths, including those of the perpetrators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Indian_Parliament_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
calendrical:
Of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calendrical>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A higher power than man power guided and watched over me and
told me what to do. … There can be no doubt in the world of the fact
of the divine power being in that. No other power under heaven could
bring a man out of a place like that. Men were killed on both sides of
me; and I was the biggest and the most exposed of all. Over thirty
machine guns were maintaining rapid fire at me, point-blank from a range
of about twenty-five yards.
--Alvin C. York
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alvin_C._York>
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