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msg[1] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1940 - Jews in Germany are ordered to wear yellow stars for identification</p>";

msg[2] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1945 - Japan formally surrenders in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri</p>";

msg[3] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1940 - Hitler postpones the invasion of Britain, as the Luftwaffe fails to break the British defenses</p>";

msg[4] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1941 - the USS Greer becomes the first United States warship fired upon by a German  U-boat in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power. Tension heightens between the two nations as a result. The US is now committed to convoy duties between the Western Hemisphere and Europe; 1942 - Manhattan Engineering District is formally created, full-effort production of the atomic bomb is begun</p>";

msg[5] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1942 - German U-boats attacked four Allied ore carriers at Bell Island, Newfoundland. The carriers SS Saganaga and the SS Lord Strathcona were sunk by U-513 in what is called “The Battle of the St. Lawrence”. Bell Island became the only location in North America to be subject to direct attack by German forces in WW II</p>";

msg[6] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1939 - South Africa declares war on Germany.</p>";

msg[7] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1940 - The Germans begin their most destructive air raids on London; 1941 - Two hundred RAF bombers stage a four-hour night raid on Berlin</p>";

msg[8] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1944 - Hitler’s V-2 rocket offensive began with a single launch at Paris, followed by two 485th launches from The Hague against London</p>";

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msg[10] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1942 - RAF blasts Düsseldorf with large incendiary bombing</p>";

msg[11] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Navy to shoot on sight if any ship or convoy is threatened</p>";

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msg[17] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1940 - decoded messages now reveal that Hitler has postponed Operation Sealion until further notice</p>";

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msg[24] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1942 - United States deploys the I Corps to the Pacific Theater</p>";

msg[25] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p></p>";

msg[26] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1941 - The US Naval Command orders an all-out war on Axis shipping in American waters</p>";

msg[27] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>1940 - The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy, and Japan, promising mutual aid. An informal name, “Axis”, emerges</p>";

msg[28] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p>German SS troops kill over 30,000 Jews at Babi Yar in response to Jewish sabotage efforts, on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine</p>";

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msg[30] = "<h3>This date in WW2</h3> <p></p>";

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