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Today in World War II History—March 6, 1940 & 1945

Thursday, March 6, 2025 by Sarah Sundin
Navy Ensign Jane Kendeigh, the first flight nurse to arrive on Iwo Jima (US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery)

Navy Ensign Jane Kendeigh, the first flight nurse to arrive on Iwo Jima (US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery)

85 Years Ago—Mar. 6, 1940: Finnish diplomats arrive in Moscow for negotiations to end Winter War.

Demolished Hohenzollern Bridge at Cologne, Germany, March 1945 (US Army Center of Military History)

Demolished Hohenzollern Bridge at Cologne, Germany, March 1945 (US Army Center of Military History)

80 Years Ago—Mar. 6, 1945: US First Army takes Cologne (Köln), Germany; in retreat, Germans destroy the Hohenzollern Bridge.

Germans launch offensive to retake Hungarian oil fields—will have partial, temporary success.

Dutch resistance ambushes a truck at Woeste Hoeve, injuring Hanns Rauter, head of the Dutch SS.

US begins medical evacuation flights from Iwo Jima, which come under artillery fire; for the first time ever, a flight nurse (Ens. Jane Kendeigh, Navy Nurse Corps) flies into an active battlefield.

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