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History on the 1st of February

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01 Feb 1915 WW2 Queen Elizabeth was commissioned into service. 
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01 Feb 1916 WW2 Malaya was commissioned into service. 
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01 Feb 1917 WW2 James Lacey was born in Wetherby, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. 
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01 Feb 1918 WW2 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of commander. 
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01 Feb 1920 WW2 The South African air arm was created out of a squadron (1. The Suid Afrikaanse Lugmag) that had been attached to the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War. 
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01 Feb 1921 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of Major. 
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01 Feb 1923 WW2 The Italian Fascist Party established the paramilitary Blackshirt legions. 
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01 Feb 1924 WW2 The United Kingdom officially recognized the Soviet Union. 
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01 Feb 1926 WW2 Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic was formed within Russia. 
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01 Feb 1927 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt founded the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in the United States to further the research of poliomyelitis and for the care of poliomyelitis patients. 
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01 Feb 1928 WW2 He Yingqin was made a member of the construction committee. 
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01 Feb 1928 WW2 Hubert Lanz was promoted to the rank of captain. 
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01 Feb 1928 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
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01 Feb 1929 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
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01 Feb 1931 WW2 Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
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01 Feb 1931 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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01 Feb 1932 WW2 Light carrier Hosho arrived off the mouth of the Yangtze River in China. 
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01 Feb 1932 WW2 Japanese carrier Hosho and the Japanese Navy Destroyer Division 3 arrived off Shanghai, China to support the battles in the city. Also on this day, the United Kingdom and the United States demanded Japan to cease the fighting in Shanghai. 
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01 Feb 1933 WW2 US Navy squadron VP-10 based at at Norfolk, Virginia, United States received the first delivery of P2Y-1 flying boat. 
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01 Feb 1934 WW2 Werner Mölders was promoted to the rank of Oberfähnrich. 
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01 Feb 1934 WW2 Ernst Röhm suggested to the Reich Defence Council that his SA should take over all defence duties and that the German Army be relegated to the task of training his men. 
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01 Feb 1938 WW2 Koichi Shiozawa was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 5th Fleet. 
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01 Feb 1938 WW2 Robert von Greim was promoted to the rank of Generalmajor. 
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01 Feb 1939 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Oberst. 
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01 Feb 1939 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Wilhelm Fröhlich took command of U-36. 
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01 Feb 1939 WW2 Granatiere was commissioned into service. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 Soviet artillery pieces fired 300,000 shells in the Summa sector of the Karelian Isthmus on this date at the start of a new Soviet offensive against the Finnish forces. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-13 torpedoed and sank Swedish steamer Fram in the Aberdour Bay, Scotland at 0143 hours. 9 were killed and 14 were rescued by destroyer HMS Khartoum and armed trawler HMS Viking Deeps. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank British coaler Ellen M. 20 miles east of Southwold, Suffolk, England, killing the entire crew of 9. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 In Russia the noted stage director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, having been tortured into confessing that he was the leader of an anti-soviet Trotskyite, was convicted in camera, and was executed on the following day. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 The keel of refrigerated cargo ship Telemachus was laid down. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was awarded the Pilot's Badge. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 SS-Reichsführer Himmler ordered inspections of potential sites for a planned concentration camp. Among those inspected was the camp at Oswiecim, Poland, known in German as Auschwitz. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 In Britain, the Admiralty took over the responsibility for the building and repair of merchant shipping and concluded an arrangement to buy old cargo ships from the United States. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 In the British House of Commons, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declined to accept a suggestion by Herbert Morrison that a Minister of War Economy should be appointed on the grounds that such a post would do nothing which was not already being done. 
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01 Feb 1940 WW2 The keel of battleship Alabama was laid down at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia, United States. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 At Maug Island in the Mariana Islands, Orion received one Japanese-built E8N float plane, purchased from Japan earlier that year, from German ship Munsterland. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-48 sank Greek ship Nicolas Angelos with a torpedo and shots from the deck gun south of Iceland at 2215 hours. The crew was took to the lifeboat, which was never found. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 The US Marine Corps brigades stationed on the east and west coasts of the United States were reorganized as the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisoins, respectively; it was the first time the USMC organized units on the divisional level. To the south on the island of Cuba, the US Marine Corps 4th Defense Battalion arrived at Guantanamo Bay from Parris Island, South Carolina, United States. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 Oberstleutnant Benno Kosch was named the commanding officer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 Captain William Derek Stephens was named the commanding officer of HMS Mauritius. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 Subhas Chandra Bose arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 Indian 4th Division captured Agordat, Eritrea, Italian East Africa while Indian 5th Division captured Metemma, Abyssinia. 2nd Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat of the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners won the first Victoria Cross for the British Indian Army in WW2 for a "...continuous feat of sheer cold courage" clearing 15 minefields and 55 miles of roads in 48 hours. 
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01 Feb 1941 WW2 In Britain, the Air Training Corps was established to provide pre-entry training for cadets over the age of 16 intending to enter the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Soviet Army began attacking towards Vyazma. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Vidkun Quisling formed his government in Norway. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 PT boats and P-40 aircraft repulsed the Japanese landing attempt on southwest Bataan at the Philippine Islands. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Cruiser Köln began four months of repairs and refits in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 The British formed the RAF Regiment to defend airfields as the British Army could not provide such services. This regiment would eventually grow to the size of 50,000 men. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Mitragliero was commissioned into service. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 The United States Marine Corps redesigned Air Detachment, Marine Barracks, Parris Island in South Carolina, United States to the Marine Corps Air Station, Parris Island. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Dutch forces at Passo, Ambon, Dutch East Indies surrendered. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Akagi departed Truk, Caroline Islands in an attempt to catch the enemy carrier force that attacked the Marshall Islands. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Kaga departed Truk, Caroline Islands in search of US carriers near the Marshall Islands. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Lexington supported the air offensive against Marshall and Gilbert Islands indirectly by operation in the vicinity of Christmas Island. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 The United States launched its first air offensive against the Gilbert Islands as aircraft from US carriers USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise struck Japanese bases in the island group. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Grampus arrived at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Allied convoys PQ-9 and PQ-10 departed Reykjavík, Iceland together. 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese troops reached Singapore, pausing for the following few days to prepare for a landing on the island. Meanwhile, General Arthur Percival announced that "the battle of Malaya has come to an end and the battle of Singapore has started.... Today we stand beleaguered in our island fortress. Our task is to hold this fortress until help can come." 
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01 Feb 1942 WW2 The United States launched its first air offensive against the Marshall Islands as aircraft from US carriers USS Yorktown and USS Enterprise struck Japanese bases in the island group. US cruisers USS Northampton, USS Chester, and USS Salt Lake City also bombarded atolls in the Marshall Islands, sinking gunboat Toyotsu Maru and transport Bordeaux Maru and damaging cruiser Katori, submarine I-23, minelayer Tokiwa, and several others. USS Chester sustained damage from a Japanese dive bomber during the attack; 8 were killed, 21 were wounded. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 The 1st Free French Division (later to become the 1st Motorised Division) was established. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Japanese troops began to be evacuated from Guadalcanal by destroyers commanded by Rear Admiral Shintaro. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze evacuated troops from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi completed the repair work for destroyer Oyashio and began repair transport Nankai Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Joseph Stilwell departed Chongqing, China for India. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Cruiser Köln departed a German port for the Baltic Sea. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 As of this month, 1,622,000 prisoners of war and 4,121,000 foreigners were now serving as forced laborers in Germany. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler's special train Amerika was renamed Brandenburg. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Air Raid drill. Torpedo Squadron 11 (VT-11; model TBF) departed. Radio transmission facilities usably complete. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Tenryu was struck from the navy list. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Columbia arrived at Efate, New Hebrides. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny entered waters off China. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 The Fletcher-class destroyer USS De Haven was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Savo Island, Solomon Islands. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 At Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland, SS personnel selected 20 Jewish prisoners who were already working at the crematorium in Auschwitz I and readied them for work in the soon-to-be-ready new crematoriums in Birkenau. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Trapped in the ruins of a department store in Stalingrad, Russia, Friedrich Paulus surrendered the southern pocket along with 14 of his generals; Paulus became the first German field marshal to surrender to an enemy force. Fighting continued in the northern pocket, however, and 85 of the 108 transport aircraft dispatched to airdrop supplies to the northern pocket were able to do so. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 Germans fell back from Demyansk, Russia. 
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01 Feb 1943 WW2 The keel of CV-14, originally destined to be USS Hancock, was laid down at Norfolk, Virginia, United States. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 The British Air Headquarters Air Defences Eastern Mediterranean was renamed the Air Headquarters Eastern Mediterranean; Richard Saul remained its commanding officer despite the name change. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 Franz Kutschera passed away. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 Graph was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Luce departed Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands for Paramushiru, Kurile Islands. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 The United States Marine Corps established a new 4th Marine Regiment at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal (the original 4th Marine having been lost at Corregidor in the Philippine Islands in 1942) drawing its manpower from the deactivated Raider battalions. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 German 44th Infantry Division fell back near the Rapido River toward Monte Cassino, Italy. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 A new satellite camp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz), located at the Guenthergrube in Ledziny, Poland opened. This new satellite camp would house 300 prisoners for coal mining for the German industrial firm I. G. Farben. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 Allied convoy JW-56B arrived at the Kola Inlet near Murmansk, Russia. 
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01 Feb 1944 WW2 A personnel office and a naval infantry unit were established at Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Sea Cat departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her second war patrol. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 US First Army captured Remscheid in Germany, east of Düsseldorf. On the same day, US Seventh Army reached the Moder River and the Siegfried Line/Westwall. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Küstrin, Germany, surrounded by Soviet troops, was declared a Fortress City. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 British fighter ace Robert Roland Stanford Tuck, shot down and captured on 28 Jan 1942, escaped from his prisoner of war camp, subsequently making his way through the Russian lines to the British Embassy in Moscow and then home. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Warspite was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Light carrier Hosho arrived at Tokuyama, Japan, refueled, and departed to conduct a training exercise as a target vessel. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Commander Jacob Wilson Waterhouse relieved Commander Hinton A. Owens as the commanding officer of USS Luce. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Bulgarian People's Court found Dobri Bozhilov guilty of being a traitor to Bulgaria and sentenced him to death. The execution was carried out later on the same day. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Bulgarian People's Court found Bogdan Filov guilty of being a traitor to Bulgaria and sentenced him to death. The execution was carried out later on the same day. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 Captain Thomas Howell Binford was named the commanding officer of USS Miami while the ship was at sea south of Tokyo, Japan. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 The Taiwan District Army was formed within the Japanese Tenth Area Army with the former commanding officer General Rikichi Ando of the former Taiwan Army at its head. 
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01 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Segundo departed Guam, Mariana Islands for her third war patrol. 
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01 Feb 1946 WW2 Isherwood was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Feb 1946 WW2 Soviet prosecutors in Nürnberg, Germany brought out Friedrich Paulus and Erich Buschenhagen by surprise as witnesses in the war crimes trials. 
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01 Feb 1947 WW2 Renshaw was decommissioned from service. 
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01 Feb 1947 WW2 Roderick Carr retired from military service. 
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01 Feb 1947 WW2 USS Saint Paul conducted training operations off San Diego, California, United States. 
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01 Feb 1948 WW2 Vittorio Veneto was decommissioned from service. 
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