Eights 1944

Notes

Bumps racing continued sporadically during WWII, with many colleges combining to form crews.
The Brasenose minute book (courtesy of William O'Chee) shows that Eights took place in 1944, but gives no results except that the combined Brasenose/Christ Church crew was bumped three times and finished 5th on the river.
In other news ... [1944]

Monarch: George VI
Prime Minister: Winston Churchill (Conservative)

May 18
WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: The Germans evacuate Monte Cassino, and Allied forces, led by Wladyslaw Anders from Polish II Corps, take the stronghold after a struggle that has claimed 20,000 lives.
May 18
Crimean Tatars are deported by the Soviet Union.
May 24 WWII:
West Loch disaster: Six LSTs are accidentally destroyed and 163 men killed, in Pearl Harbor.
May 30 Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne, resigns in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, who later reigns as Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
May 31
WWII: Destroyer escort USS England sinks the sixth Japanese submarine in two weeks. This anti-submarine warfare performance remains unmatched through the 20th-century.