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History on the 5th of February

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05 Feb 1914 WW2 Upon examination in Salzburg, Austria, Adolf Hitler was rejected by the Austro-Hungarian Army; army doctors deemed him unfit for service even for auxiliary units. 
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05 Feb 1917 WW2 Henry Arnold assumed command of 7th Aero Squadron in New York, New York, United States; the squadron was destined for the Panama Canal Zone. 
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05 Feb 1918 WW2 2nd Lieutenant Stephen W. Thompson shot down a German Albatros aircraft from his Breguet 14 biplane, while undergoing operational training, marking the first confirmed victory for the US Air Service. 
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05 Feb 1919 WW2 Kichisaburo Nomura was made a member of the Japanese delegation to Versailles, France. 
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05 Feb 1920 WW2 The world's first Military Air Academy was established at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom to train officer cadets for the British Royal Air Force. 
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05 Feb 1921 WW2 USS Arizona departed Callao, Peru. 
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05 Feb 1923 WW2 USS R-1 began to participate in fleet exercises off Central America. 
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05 Feb 1923 WW2 USS R-5 participated in war games in the Gulf of Fonseca in Central America. 
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05 Feb 1924 WW2 Nobutake Kondo was named an aide to Crown Prince Hirohito at Tokyo, Japan. 
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05 Feb 1924 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu was named the commanding officer of the Yokosuka Military District. 
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05 Feb 1924 WW2 Vice Admiral Kikuo Matsumura was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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05 Feb 1927 WW2 Tenryu was dispatched to China to patrol the mouth of the Yangtze River. 
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05 Feb 1931 WW2 Malcolm Campbell broke the World land speed record by achieving 246.09 miles per hour at Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. For this achievement he would be knighted by King George V on his return to Southampton, England, United Kingdom. 
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05 Feb 1932 WW2 British firm Vickers and Soviet organization All-Russian Co-operative Society (ARCOS) entered into an agreement for the Soviet military's purchase of eight British Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tanks. 
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05 Feb 1932 WW2 Light carrier Hosho launched aircraft to attack Shanghai, China. 
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05 Feb 1932 WW2 Two Japanese bombers and three carrier-borne (Hosho) biplane fighters engaged in dogfights with Chinese Air Force fighters over Shanghai, China. 
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05 Feb 1933 WW2 A German emergency decree dissolved all elected bodies in Prussia. 
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05 Feb 1938 WW2 By this date, the International Committee had forwarded to the Japanese embassy a total of 450 cases of murder, rape, and other crimes committed by Japanese soldiers which were observed by American, British, and German nationals in Nanjing, China and reported by their respective embassies. 
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05 Feb 1939 WW2 Spanish Nationalist troops captured Gerona, Spain. 
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05 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-41 damaged Dutch tanker Ceronia at 0330 hours. At 1310 hours, she torpedoed and sank British ship Beaverburn 150 miles south of Ireland, killing 1, with the remaining 76 rescued by British tanker Narragansett. Shortly after, U-41 was sunk by British destroyer HMS Antelope, killing all 49 aboard; it was the first time a lone British destroyer destroyed a German submarine, and Lieutenant Commander White of Antelope was awarded the DSO award. 
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05 Feb 1940 WW2 USS Helena arrived at Santos, Brazil. 
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05 Feb 1940 WW2 After meeting in Paris, France, the Allied Supreme War Council agreed to send two divisions of British troops to Finland via Narvik, Norway, despite Norway's proclamation of neutrality. They also decided that, while the troops marched into Finland, they would take control of Swedish iron ore mines and the port of Luleå, despite Sweden had likely proclaimed neutral in the war. 
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05 Feb 1941 WW2 After crossing 150 miles of desert in 30 hours, armored cars of British 7th Armoured Division set up roadblocks at Sidi Saleh south of Benghazi, Libya, just in time to meet and stop the leading elements of the retreating Italian Tenth Army. In the evening, the British 4th Armoured Brigade reached Beda Fomm 10 miles north of the roadblocks, preventing Italian retreat to the east. 
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05 Feb 1941 WW2 British and Indian troops attacked Italian-held hills near Dongolaas Gorge en route to Keren, Eritrea, Italian East Africa. 
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05 Feb 1941 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Tourmaline was sunk by German aircraft off North Foreland, Kent, England, United Kingdom. 
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05 Feb 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Sealion sank Norwegian ship Ryfylke 2 miles off the Norwegian coast near Stadlandet. 
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05 Feb 1941 WW2 The keel of submarine Finback was laid down. 
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05 Feb 1941 WW2 Transport ship No. 74 under construction at Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation's shipyard at Kobe, Japan was named Irako. She was assigned to the Sasebo Naval District. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 120 P-40 fighters arrived at Brisbane, Australia from the United States. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 The US Army Far East Air Force was redesignated 5th Air Force; the personnel and aircraft continued to move south to the Dutch East Indies and Australia. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Roi, Marshall Islands. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-103 sank US tankers India Arrow at 0153 hours (26 were killed, 12 survived) and China Arrow at 1808 hours (all 37 aboard survived) 20 kilometers southeast of Cape May, New Jersey, United States. German submarine U-136 sank British corvette HMS Arbutus (Lieutenant A. L. W. Warren) in the North Atlantic 330 miles west of Ireland at 2236 hours; 43 were killed, 47 survived. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Lexington crossed the Equator. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese aircraft attacked Allied shipping off Sumbawa Island and Bali Island in the Dutch East Indies; several P-40 Warhawk fighters of the USAAF 20th Provisional Pursuit Squadron were destroyed at Bali. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Bangka Roads, Celebes, Dutch East Indies to support the landings at Makassar, Celebes. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 60 British RAF Bomber Command aircraft attacked German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at Brest, France, causing little damage. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Busan, Korea. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 Axis forces captured Derna and Tmimi, Libya. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese troops attacked the Pulau Ubin island to the east of Singapore, drawing British troops to move to that region; the actual attack would come from the northwest three days later. Out at sea, passenger liner Empress of Asia, with reinforcement for Singapore aboard and fallen behind from fellow BM12 convoy members, was attacked and sunk by 9 Japanese aircraft; although the loss of life was small (16 killed), all the weapons and equipment aboard her were lost; 1,804 survivors were rescued by Australian sloop HMAS Yarra. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 Soviet submarine Shch-421 sank German ship Konsul Schulte in the Porsanger Fjord off Honningsvaag, Norway. 
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05 Feb 1942 WW2 17 radio intelligence personnel were evacuated from the US Navy Station CAST facility at Corregidor island, Philippine Islands. 
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05 Feb 1943 WW2 Mussolini personally took over the Italian Foreign Ministry after firing his son-in-law Count Ciano. 
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05 Feb 1943 WW2 HMS Stronsay was mined and sunk in the western Mediterranean Sea off Philippeville, French Algeria. 
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05 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Permit began her seventh war patrol. 
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05 Feb 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan for her 10th voyage with the Japanese Navy. 
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05 Feb 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Sasebo, Japan and began a period of refitting. 
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05 Feb 1943 WW2 Air Marshal John. C. Slessor was appointed Air officer Commanding (AOC) of RAF Coastal Command. 
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05 Feb 1943 WW2 Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commanding officer of US 1st Marine Division, was decorated with the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 The German Naval High Command temporarily halted preparations for Operation Sealion, seeing that at this stage of the war an invasion of Britain was not likely to happen. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 Submarine Segundo was launched, sponsored by Mrs. John L. Sullivan. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 Piranha was commissioned into service. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 Oberstleutnant Egon Mayer became the first German Luftwaffe fighter pilot operating solely on the western front to reach 100 victories. He would claim just two more before being killed on 2 Mar 1944 whilst attacking a formation of B-17 bombers near Sedan, France. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Gar arrived at Open Bay on the northern coast of New Britain to pick up downed airmen who had been under the care of coast watchers. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 Troops of Sakurai Force of Japanese 55th Division penetrated lines held by Indian 7th Division in Arakan, Burma undetected. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Part of ACORN-22 departed. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 US forces reached the outskirts of Cassino, Italy, but were held out of the town. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 German and Allied artillery pieces bombarded each other at Anzio, Italy. 
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05 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Gunnel departed Midway Atoll for her fourth war patrol. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Vice Admiral Shigeru Fukudome was named the commanding officer of the Japanese 10th Area Fleet while still holding command of the 1st Southern Expeditionary Fleet; Rear Admiral Bunji Asakura was named his chief of staff. On the same day, the Japanese Navy 13th Air Fleet was transferred from the Southwest Area Fleet to become part of the 10th Area Fleet; it brought in the strength of two air flotillas and seven air groups. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hawkbill departed Fremantle, Australia for her third war patrol. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island arrived at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 The first Allied supply convoy from Ledo, India to successfully cross the Burmese-Chinese border on 29 Jan 1945 arrived in Kunming Airfield, Yunnan Province, China. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 The RSHA transported approximately 1,200 Jews from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in occupied Czechoslovakia to Switzerland. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Submarine I-369 arrived at Yokosuka, Japan. 
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05 Feb 1945 WW2 Kobi Naval Air Group was transferred to Takao Guard District in southern Taiwan. 
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05 Feb 1946 WW2 Milan Nedić passed away. 
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05 Feb 1946 WW2 US Army attorney Colonel Harry Clarke wrote to US Secretary of War Robert Patterson in request of clemency for General Tomoyuki Yamashita. 
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05 Feb 1946 WW2 USS Mero arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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05 Feb 1947 WW2 Kimberly was decommissioned from service. 
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05 Feb 1948 WW2 Johannes Blaskowitz passed away. 
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