Andrew Mynarski (Heritage Minute)
1944 · Resource
Mynarski burns rather than abandon his trapped tail gunner — a posthumous VC; the gunner survived to tell it. Historica Canada Heritage Minute, released 2005.
On these timelines: Heritage Minutes (Canada), Resources: Combined
Around 1944
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)