Today in World War II History—November 10, 1939 & 1944
Sunday, November 10, 2019 by Sarah Sundin

Americans destroy Hengyang Airfield in China as Japanese advance, June 1944 (US Army Air Force photo)
80 Years Ago—November 10, 1939: “The Venlo Incident”—Germans kidnap two British agents in Dutch town of Venlo to accuse them of the previous day’s assassination attempt on Hitler.
75 Years Ago—Nov. 10, 1944: Japanese take US Fourteenth Air Force air bases at Kweilin and Liuchow in their drive through southern China.