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Personal data Alan Spiers 

  • He was born about 1920 in Virginia.
  • Profession: militair.
    Virginia, Staff Sgt. 52 Bomb Sq.
  • He died on January 27, 1942 in Virginia.
  • He is buried on January 31, 1942 in Oak Grove Church Cemetery, Dinwiddie County VA.
  • This information was last updated on February 6, 2011.

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Historical events

Day of death January 27, 1942

  • The temperature on January 27, 1942 was between -24.8 °C and -4.8 °C and averaged -14.4 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • January 13 » Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
    • February 1 » World War II: U.S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
    • February 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
    • July 1 » World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
    • July 19 » World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
    • November 22 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.

Day of burial January 31, 1942

  • The temperature on January 31, 1942 was between -4.9 °C and -1.5 °C and averaged -3 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • April 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
    • April 17 » French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.
    • June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
    • July 22 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
    • July 23 » World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
    • August 27 » First day of the Sarny Massacre.


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