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History on the 8th of February

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08 Feb 1918 WW2 Masafumi Arima returned to Japan. 
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08 Feb 1918 WW2 The British Director of Naval Construction began planning the conversion of battleship Almirante Cochrane, still under construction, into a carrier. 
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08 Feb 1919 WW2 USS Arizona arrived at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. 
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08 Feb 1922 WW2 Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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08 Feb 1933 WW2 Roderick Carr was named the adjutant of RAF Depot Middle East at RAF Aboukir, Egypt. 
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08 Feb 1935 WW2 US Congress voted for a 10-year transition for the full independence of the Philippine Islands. 
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08 Feb 1935 WW2 The Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines was approved by the Filipino Constitutional Convention by a vote of 177 to 1. 
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08 Feb 1937 WW2 Falangist troops captured the city of Málaga, Spain during the Spanish Civil War. 
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08 Feb 1939 WW2 The United Kingdom and France inquired Germany on why no German guarantee of Czechoslovakian sovereignty has been signed as agreed upon in the Munich Agreement. 
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08 Feb 1940 WW2 The Soviet Union asked Finland to choose an island in the Gulf of Finland for a Soviet military base as part of the terms of peace negotiations. Artillery and aerial bombardment on the Mannerheim Line continued, however, together with periodic assaults in the Summa sector. At the Lake Ladoga area in Finland, the various pockets of Soviet troops surrounded by Finnish troops were wiped out one by one; Soviet General Timoshenko did not have any plans to reinforce or rescue these pockets. 
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08 Feb 1940 WW2 3 Hawk 75 fighters of the Chinese 18th Squadron intercepted 27 Japanese aircraft en route to Mengzi, Yunnan, China at 1505 hours. One of the Chinese fighters was heavily damaged and was forced to crash land, injuring pilot Yang Tzu-fan. 
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08 Feb 1941 WW2 The newly formed German Afrika Korps began departing Naples, Italy for North Africa. 
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08 Feb 1941 WW2 German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau detected Allied convoy HX-106, but did not attack due to the presence of British battleship HMS Ramillies. 
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08 Feb 1941 WW2 Bulgaria agreed to allow German troops to transit within its borders. 
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08 Feb 1941 WW2 USS Grampus began patrolling in the Caribbean Sea. 
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08 Feb 1941 WW2 Mr. Malcolm MacDonald was appointed to be the British High Commissioner in Canada. 
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08 Feb 1941 WW2 Philippe Pétain offered Philippe Laval a cabinet seat in the Vichy government, but the offer was declined. 
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08 Feb 1941 WW2 In Britain, Lord Moyle became Secretary of State for the Colonies, Ernest Brown became Minister of Health, and the Duke of Norfolk became the Joint Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-108 sank British freighter Ocean Venture 50 kilometers east of Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 The main Japanese offensive against Singapore began. Australian troops stationed on the northwestern coast of Singapore initially inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese landing, but confusion of battle caused them to retreat prematurely, providing Japanese a beachhead by nightfall. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 The United States Navy acquired the civilian ship Steel Architect, which was still under construction, for military service. She was to be the future escort carrier Copahee. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 Akagi arrived at the Palau Islands, having abandoned the pursuit of the American fleet. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 Kaga arrived at Palau Islands, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese troops landed 50 miles southeast of Bandjarmasin, Dutch Borneo and began marching toward the Martapoera airfield. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 The Japanese invasion fleet arrived off Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies. USS S-37 attacked the fleet at 2036 hours, firing four torpedoes at the escorting destroyers, sinking Natsushio (10 killed, 229 survived). 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 In Germany, Albert Speer was appointed the Minister of Armaments and Munitions to succeed Fritz Todt who was killed when his aircraft exploded shortly after take off in Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Grampus departed Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 While in landing pattern at Martuba airfield in Libya, Hans-Joachim Marseille in his Bf 109 fighter encountered five Hurricane fighters that tried to jump him; he was able to break off from his landing approach, out-maneuver his attackers, and shot down two of them in return (his 37th and 38th kills). Later in the day, several British Blenheim bombers, escorted by P-40 and Hurricane fighters, attacked Martuba; Marseille shot down two of the fighters, bringing his score to 40 kills. At the end of the day, against orders, he flew over an enemy airfield to drop a note that stated Flight Sergeant Hargreaves (his 37th kill) was captured and uninjured; this personal mission led to Marseille being grounded by his commanding officer Gerhard Homuth. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Wotje, Marshall Islands. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-4 sank Singaporean merchant ship Ban Ho Guan off Java, Dutch East Indies. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 American troops attacked and wiped out a Japanese infiltration force at Quinauan Point, Bataan on the Philippine island of Luzon; 600 Japanese troops were killed while the US-Filipino forces suffered 500 casualties. Meanwhile, General Masaharu Homma called off the first offensive against Bataan and fell back to more defensible positions while waiting for reinforcements. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 Soviet 3rd Shock Army, 4th Shock Army, and 11th Army linked up at Zaluch'e, Russia and encircled 90,000 German troops and 10,000 auxiliaries around Demyansk, Russia. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Grayback departed the East Coast of the United States for the Hawaiian Islands. 
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08 Feb 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-69 shelled Sand Island, Midway Atoll, causing minor damage to the radio towers. US Marine Buffalo aircraft of VMF 221 squadron counterattacked and damaged I-69. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 Soviet troops captured Kursk, Russia. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 With German permission, the Council of Jewish Elders was established in Czechoslovakia, succeeding the Jewish Religious Congregation which was dissolved on 29 Jan 1943. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny fired two torpedoes at Japanese freighter Kusayama Maru; both torpedoes missed, and the freighter returned fire. The second volley of two torpedoes also missed. The third volley of three torpedoes all scored, sinking the freighter 20 minutes later. This was Tunny's first confirmed kill. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 Gefreiter (Private) Werner Wrangel of the German Panzerjager Battalion 183 became the only person to be awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class, Iron Cross 1st Class, and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross at the same time. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 Subhash Chandra Bose departed Germany for Japan via submarine. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 Operation Longcloth, the long range penetration operation by the Chindits, was launched. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 Shokaku entered drydock and remained there through the month. 
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08 Feb 1943 WW2 Tatsuta Maru departed Yokosuka, Japan at 1600 hours, escorted by destroyer Yamagumo. At 2215 hours, at 42 miles east-southeast of Mikura Jima in the Izu Islands south of Tokyo, US submarine USS Tarpon sank her with about four torpedoes. Tatsuta Maru sank at 2237 hours, killing 1,223 passengers and 198 crew. Destroyer Yamagumo failed to find any survivors in the darkness and in the rough seas. 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 The Red Army captured Nikopol, Ukraine. Meanwhile, the German troops surrounded at Korsun were invited to surrender. 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 The RAF used its new 6-ton "Tall Boy" bomb on the Gnome-Rhone factory at Limoges, France. 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 Major William Sidney, 1st Viscount de L'Isle, led an attack on enemy positions at Anzio, Italy. Although wounded, he refused medical treatment until his objectives had been made secure. For this he would be awarded the Victoria Cross (following in the footsteps of his father-in-law, Field Marshal Lord Gort who had also been badly wounded whilst winning the same medal during the 1914-1918 war). 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Snook attacked a Japanese convoy with four torpedoes in the East China Sea. Three of them hit, sinking Lima Maru and damaging freighter Shiranesan Maru. 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 Laffey (Allen M. Sumner-class) was commissioned into service. 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 The British Royal Navy's Second Escort Group (Captain F. J. Walker CB, DSO and three bars) sank the German submarine U-762. 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Rock departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war patrol. 
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08 Feb 1944 WW2 US troops began an major assault toward Monte Cassino, Italy. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Tang was struck from the Naval Register. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 British and Canadian forces launched a major assault into the Reichswald near Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Marshal Ivan Konev's six armies surged out of their Oder River bridgehead in eastern Germany. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Generalmajor Karl Marthinson, head of the Norwegian State Police, was assassinated in Oslo, Norway by the Milorg resistance group. The Germans retaliated by executing 29 civilians. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Hoe departed Fremantle, Australia for her eighth war patrol in the South China Sea. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 The UKR chief of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front Aleksandr Vadis reported that of the 184 German agents captured by SMERSH in Jan 1945, 124 of them had orders to sabotage Soviet war efforts. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front commenced the Lower Silesian Offensive at 0600 hours after a 55-minute artillery bombardment; by the end of the day, Soviet troops had penetrated German lines by as much as 60 kilometers at certain locations. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 The 28th East African Brigade attacked Seikpyu, Burma as a feint. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Marcus Island was made the flagship of Rear Admiral Felix Stump's Carrier Division 24 whiel at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 Joseph Stalin held a feast for the Allied leaders at Yalta, Russia. 
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08 Feb 1945 WW2 German V-2 rocket hit the Super Cinema in Ilford, London, England, United Kingdom at 1245 hours; 13 were killed and 64 were seriously injured, and 86 were lightly injured. Another rocket hit Tavistock Place in St Pancras, London at 1608 hours; 31 were killed and 54 were seriously injured; the Central London Opthalmic Hospital and the Medical School of the Royal Free Hospital were damaged. 
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08 Feb 1946 WW2 Richard Heppner was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. 
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