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]
- 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.
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