On this day in military history…

• 1939 Heinrich Himmler made commissioner of consolidation of German race eliminating inferior people.
• 1943 RAF bomb Stutgart using airborne Cigar radar jamming device and kill 1,700 people and make 18,000 homeless
• 1943 Japanese carry out mass execution of 100 U.S prisoner of war
• 2001 U.S launch operation Enduring Freedom launching air strikes in Afghanistan