Words At War “War Criminals and Punishment“ Released July 4, 1944. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “War Criminals and Punishment”. Sponsored by: Johnson’s Wax. An open letter to Adolf Hitler. A dramatization about what to do with Nazi war …
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1940 Hitler orders the postponement of his attack in the west until the Spring. Likely reasons for this are the compromise of ‘Fall Gelb’ and increasing criticism from some commanders that the plan was too predictable. Led by Gerd von Rundstedt, they proposed instead that the main blow should come through the wooded Ardennes region …
1940 Britain announces nearly twice as many Britons have been killed on the roads since blackout started than by enemy action. Belgium denies British & French troops the right to cross its territory. 1941 US labor leader Philip Randolph calls for march on Washington to protest discrimination and segregation in the armed forces and defense …
1940 Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai forms a new government in Japan, but he is opposed by the pro-war military. British chemists (pharmacists) granted an exemption to sugar rationing in order to coat pills. 1941 Off Antarctica, German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin captures 14 Norwegian whaling ships without firing a single shot or causing a single casualty. 1942 General Wavell …
1940 Belgium orders military mobilization. Netherlands cancels all Army leaves. FBI arrests 17 members of pro-Nazi “Christian Front” for plotting to kill congressmen; later acquitted. 1941 Hitler demands that Bulgaria joins the Tripartite pact, but the Bulgarians play for time. The Luftwaffe launches a heavy attack against Plymouth. Author James Joyce dies at age 58 …
1940 Soviet bombers raid cities in Finland. 1941 Recruiting of Norwegians for the ‘Nordland’ Regiment of the 5th SS Motorized Division ‘Wiking’ begins. 1942 Hitler orders Admiral Otto Ciliax, who commands the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Eugen at Brest, to prepare to return to Germany. The new German battleship Tirpitz, sister …
You’re holding up a million-dollar bomber . . . try SYNTHETIC RUBBER For months a great airplane company had been working night and day to get into production on a new bomber wanted by the Army. Millions had been invested in tools and jigs. But now the first models were developing a “bug” that threatened …
1941 Hitler confirms in Directive No.22, his intentions to send military support to the Italians in Albania. The operation is to be named ‘Alpine Violets’. The Cruisers HMS Southampton and HMS Gloucester are attacked by German aircraft in the Sicilian channel. HMS Gloucester receives damage, while HMS Southampton is sunk. British submarines begin to make …
1940 German planes attack 12 ships off the British coast; sinking 3 ships and killing 35 people. Hitler informs his commanders that the attack in the west will begin on the 17th January. On this same day a German light aircraft makes a forced landing at Malines in Belgium, near the German border. The planes …
Words At War “Fair Stood The Wind For France“ Released June 27, 1944. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “Fair Stood The Wind For France”. A story of five American flyers shot down over France and the beautiful young …
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