Today 27 April 2015. On this day in military history:
In 1941:
Winston Churchill, speaking in Parliament, openly declared: he is confident that Hitler can suddenly escape from the military campaign in the Balkans and capture "the granary of the Ukraine and the oilfields of the Caucasus."
In 1942:
The people's Commissariat of foreign Affairs of the USSR sent to all the ambassadors and envoys of countries that have established with the USSR diplomatic relations, notes of the Soviet government "About the monstrous misdeeds, atrocities and violence of German-fascist invaders in the occupied Soviet areas and the responsibility of the German government and the high command for these crimes".
In 1943:
Martin Bormann wrote to the chief of all the intelligence agencies of Germany Heinrich Himmler hard a warning letter, that does not intend to tolerate the attempts of his people to substitute for party instances in matters of personnel policy in public administration.
In 1944:
On all fronts for April 27, our troops disabled and destroyed 22 German tanks. In air battles or by anti-aircraft fire shot down 29 enemy planes.
On the approaches to Sevastopol a group of torpedo boats of the black sea fleet attacked two speed landing barges. The attack sunk 1 landing barge of the enemy.
Our air force continued to bombard enemy ships in the port of Sevastopol and on the high seas. In the South Bay by a direct hit bombs sunk three barges.
In 1945:
Troops of the 1st Ukrainian front and the allied Anglo-American troops United near the city of Torgau.
Troops of the 1st Belorussian front captured the towns of Rathenow, Spandau, Potsdam, and another 16 major cities and towns.
Around the Italian town of Dongo the partisans stopped the small German part. During a search in one of the trucks they found Benito Mussolini, disguised in German uniforms, tried to escape from Italy.
In Austria established a provisional government of representatives of the Socialist party, the Christian-social and the Communist party headed by the socialist Karl Renner. At its first meeting adopted the Declaration of independence of Austria.
The Americans took the city of Baguio on the Philippine island of Luzon.
The newspaper "Pravda" reported: In new York times square celebration and fired a salute in honor of the meeting of the Anglo-American and Soviet troops in Torgau.
