On this day in military history…

• 1943 US and Great Britain’s chiefs of staff meet up in Washington to plot operation Pointblank, a bombing offensive to dismantle the German military and economic system.
• 1955 Soviet Union and 7 European countries sign up to a defense organisation, the Warsaw Pact, formally known as The Friendship Treaty.
• 1969 President Nixon reports to American people about the 10 point plan offered by the National Liberation Front as an overall solution of ending the Vietnam War.