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Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904; [citation needed] disappeared December 15, 1944; declared dead December 16, 1945) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombone player, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. [ 1] His civilian band, Glenn Miller and His ...
This is a list of United States Armed Forces general officers and flag officers who were killed in World War II. The dates of death listed are from the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 to the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945, when the United States was officially involved in World War II. Included are generals and admirals who ...
Four of six Bar-Kays members died: Ronnie Caldwell, Phalon Jones, Jimmy King and Carl Cunningham. Ben Cauley survived the crash and James Alexander was not on the plane. Also on board and killed was soul singer Otis Redding . Green was killed along with 10 other passengers - including 2 of his children - and the pilot.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater Soviet soldiers killed during the Toropets–Kholm Offensive, January 1942. Officially, roughly 8.6 million Soviet soldiers died in the course of the war, including millions of POWs. Einsatzgruppen murder Jewish civilians outside Ivanhorod, Ukraine, 1942.
František Getreuer (1906–1945), Czech swimmer and Olympic water polo player, killed in Dachau concentration camp. Hugo Gryn (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996), senior rabbi, London. Adélaïde Hautval (1 January 1906 – 17 October 1988), French psychiatrist who refused to cooperate with medical experimentation at Auschwitz.
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen SS Sturmbannfuhrer ...
The project found that 136 people had died, [12] [13] using the criteria of "either an attempted escape or a temporal and spatial link between the death and the border regime". Not all had died immediately — one fatality occurred years later — and not all were caused by acts of violence. After reviewing 575 deaths, the ...