Today in World War II

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1942 - Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
1944 - US air raid on Ambon

From http://www.famousfoto.com/history/ww2/

[Hobilar]

Originally Posted by RSS Bot

1942 - Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
1944 - US air raid on Ambon

From Today In World War Two History August 28

28 August 1941
A Russian convoy of 195 vessels and stretching for more thasn 15 miles which includes 29 ships evacuating 24,000 Russian troops from Estonia to Leninigrad runs into a German laid minefield in the Gulf of Finland, The commotion attracts the attention of the Luftwaffe and shore batteries resulting in the loss of 53 vessels with more than 6,000 men killed.

[Hobilar]

28 August 1942

• A Japanese seaplane launched from a submarine drops bombs over forests in Oregon (USA)
  
  
• In New Guinea Pte Bruce Kingsbury becomes the first soldier to receive a Victoria Cross in Australian administered territory. He iis killed by a sniper whilst leading a charge, firing his Bren gun from the hip, which saves his Battalion HQ.

28 August 1943

Boris III, the pro-axis Tsar of Bulgaria is assassinated whilst returning to Sofia after a visit to Hitler

28 August 1945

• 150 American airborne trrops land at Atsuki airfield near Tokyo. The first allied troops to land on the Japanese mainland
  
  
• The battleship HMS Nelson anchors off Penang to take the Japanese surrender in Malaya

[Jim O]

August 28, 1943: Bulgarian King Boris III dies under mysterious circumstances.

Shortly after returning to Sofia, Boris died of apparent heart failure. Many believed that he was poisoned by Hitler in an attempt to put a more obedient government in place. But this seems highly unlikely, since his death came several days after his return. The evening before the illness occurred, Boris had an official dinner in the Italian embassy. Others suggest that this was a Communist plot to destabilize the monarchy. Source: Boris III of Bulgaria

While visiting Hitler in Berlin, he agreed to declare war on Great Britain and the United States, but not on Russia. His mysterious death, possibly by heart attack or by assassination, soon followed. Source: Boris III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05

What's the source you are using that he was assassinated?

[Hobilar]

Originally Posted by Jim O

What's the source you are using that he was assassinated?

I am using 'War Diary-A 60th Anniversary chronology of the Second World War' a special supplement to the Lincolnshire Echo (Published November 2005)

This claims that Boris III was killed by a 'Pro-Russian Gunman'

[Jim O]

Interesting. Everything online suggests that it was "mysterious". Seems it may remian so.