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Today in World War II History—July 27, 1943

RAF aerial photo showing ruined residential and commercial buildings in Hamburg, Germany, destroyed by the firestorm which on the night of 27/28 July 1943 (Imperial War Museum: CL 3400)

RAF aerial photo showing ruined residential and commercial buildings in Hamburg, Germany, destroyed by the firestorm on the night of 27/28 July 1943 (Imperial War Museum: CL 3400)

80 Years Ago—July 27, 1943: Hamburg Firestorm: 722 RAF bomb Hamburg, Germany, creating a firestorm that kills 60,000.

In the Aleutians, Japanese abandon Kiska without a fight; the final troops are evacuated July 28 under cover of fog.

Flight nurse Lt. Ruth Gardiner (805th MAETS) is killed in a plane crash in Naknek, Alaska; the first US Army nurse to die in WWII; an Army general hospital in Chicago will be named after her in July 1944 (Read more: “Medical Air Evacuation in World War II—The Flight Nurse”).

Flight nurse 2nd Lt. Ruth Gardiner, 1943 (US Air Force photo 25735)

Flight nurse 2nd Lt. Ruth Gardiner, 1943 (US Air Force photo 25735)

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