British railway poster, WWII
80 Years Ago—February 7, 1940: British railways are nationalized.
Movie premiere of Disney’s Pinocchio in New York City.
Damage to the Schwammenauel Dam causes flooding of the Roer River, Feb. 1945 (US Army Center of Military History)
75 Years Ago—Feb. 7, 1945: Germans blow up floodgates in the Ruhr Valley, flooding the area west of Cologne, Germany.
Japanese take US Fourteenth Air Force base in Kanchow, China.
