The Book Of Yesterday | July 5

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THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE WITH THE KURSK

July 5, 1943

Five months after Adolf Hitler's bitter defeat in the city of Stalingrad, his tentacles once again moved within the Soviet Union in the hope that he would recover from the German army's defeat at Stalingrad.

Even before the planned invasion, Hitler waited a long time for the operation because he was still waiting for the arrival of modern and larger Panther and Tiger 1 tanks, so this gave the Soviets enough time to prepare for the offensive of the Germans. The Soviets dug long trenches with the help of civilians, and drastically increased factory production of new T-34-76 tanks and several pieces of howitzers and ammunition.

Under Operation Citadel launched on this day in 1943, more than 780,000 German soldiers and more than 2,900 war tanks simultaneously surrounded the north and south sides of the larger Soviet force base near the city of Kursk, consisting of over 1,900,000 soldiers and over 5,100 tanks and over 2,700 warplanes.

This battle witnessed the largest tank-on-tank clash of the two forces, when they faced off in the town of Prokhorovkha, a few kilometers away from Kursk, where Soviet tanks faced more powerful German tanks. Their respective artillery and aerial support supported the battle tanks clash, while Soviet artillery and warplanes prevented them from surrounding and confining inside the Kursk despite so much lost to the Soviet army. It was 12 July when the Soviets launched their counter-offensive in the northern part of Kursk, and were able to push away the two German armies attempting to encircle Kursk.

The invasion of the island of Sicily in Italy by American forces also added to the problem of the German army, forcing Hitler to bring his reserve troops there to the Kursk, causing the German offensive on the eastern Front to weaken sharply.

It was the first anniversary of the German invasion of Stalingrad when the Germans were finally defeated in their offensive against the Soviets at Kursk, and this time, the Germans retreated sharply almost out of the gates of the Soviet Union. This battle was important during World War II, because it ended Hitler's ambition to occupy the whole of Russia. But the Soviets' victory over the Kursk came at a great price; as many as 800,000 Soviet soldiers were killed compared to the more than 200,000 Germans killed in Operation Citadel and more tanks were lost to the Soviets compared to those lost to the Germans.

Since then Hitler has not recovered, with the amount of soldiers and machinery lost to the Wehrmacht, and only sees his own army in the east retreating back to Germany.

FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER NICÉPHOR NIÉPCE PASSES AWAY

July 5, 1833

French photography pioneer Joseph Nicéphor Niépce died on this day in 1833 at his home in the town of Saint-Loup de Varennes, at the age of 68 due to a stroke. The man who took the first photographic image in history died, a poor and financially destitute, which the municipal government of his town itself spent on his funeral.

Joseph Nicéphor Niépce was born in the town of Chalon-sur-Saône in eastern France on March 7, 1765. Niépce attended college and became a professor when he joined Napoléon Bonaparte's army during the revolution until his retirement in 1795, to continue his profession as an inventor and professor with his brother Claude.

Out of his annoyance with the inability to draw, he developed an interest in lithography, a form of drawing by printing an image on a polished stone. And with what can be considered an ancient camera obscura, which still uses sunlight and lenses to project the image on a canvas inside a box and then draw with a pencil, Niépce thought of a more effective method. printing the image from the camera obscura rather than manually drawing with a pencil.

About 1826 or 1827, using a photographic plate coated with chemicals by Niépce to serve as an image printer, he took what is considered the world's first photograph in just eight hours. One is your image of the window in his house in Saint-Loup de Varennes, using camera obscura. The plaque was believed to have disappeared, until the original image plaque was found in 1952. In 1829 Niépce formed a partnership with his fellow French photography pioneer Louis Daguerre, who would later invent the first real camera in the whole. world. The release of the world’s first photographic image taken by Niépce opened the door for the beginning of the field of photograph.

GENERAL DOUGLASMACARTHUR DECLARES THE LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES FROM JAPANESE OCCUPATION

July 5, 1945

After nearly four years of occupation by Japanese forces in our country, a historic message was delivered to us on this day in 1945 by General Douglas MacArthur from his General Headquarters. He declared in his message on the radio that the campaign of the American forces in our country to drive out the Japanese was over, and that the combined American and Filipino forces had completely liberated the Philippines. General MacArthur also declared that the liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese was one of his great victories in the battles he led in Asia-Pacific during World War II, and he also took pride in his statement on fulfilling the campaign goals of United States forces in our country; this included the complete destruction of the Japanese naval, land and air force, and the restoration of democracy throughout the Far East.

Although the war was over in the view of General MacArthur, it was not in the view of the Japanese who were still fighting while hiding in the forests of our country. On August 15, 1945, Japan declared its surrender to the war, and on September 2, the war in Asia-Pacific formally ended.

For nearly four years, more than 200,000 American and Filipino soldiers laid down their lives in the fight against the Japanese occupation, while more than one million Filipino civilians were killed in their occupation.

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