1941 In a Luftwaffe raid on Liverpool, England, 32 ships and boats are sunk. 1942 The United States begins food rationing. Akyab on the Burmese coast is abandoned by the British. The Japanese Port Moresby invasion force leaves Rabaul, in New Britain. With its naval support stripped away, the Japanese invasion fleet at Tulagi is …
1940 War Office announces withdrawal from Namsos; Allies remain only in Narvik to stop the supply of iron ore to Germany. Allied forces south of Trondheim surrender to Germans. Destroyer Afridi sunk by German bombers off Norway. Hitler postpones X-Day to the 6th May due to bad weather. 1942 Off the northern coast of Norway, …
1940 Germans troops reach Aandalesnes. Allied forces are evacuated from Namsos. Chamberlain announces British forces are to withdraw from southern Norway. 1941 British Evacuation of Greece complete. Hostilities break out between British forces in Iraq and that country’s pro-German faction. Iraqis attack the British base at Habbaniya, but are repulsed. 1942 Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, …
Words At War “Guys On the Ground“ Released December 6, 1944. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “The Guys On The Ground”. The story of the “Coughin’ Coffin,” a de-jinxed B-26. How ground crew members keep ’em flying with …
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1940 Amalgamated Engineering Union agrees to allow women workers in munitions factories. German mine-carrying bomber crashes on Clacton, Essex; two civilians and four Germans killed, 156 people injured. Norwegians surrender in Lillehammer. Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz. 1941 The Luftwaffe begins a series of 8 consecutive night raids against Liverpool. Dissident …
1940 Germans announce they have established communication between Trondheim and Oslo. RAF attack Oslo airfield. The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside. 1941 British air raid casualty figures in April: 6,065 killed, 6,926 injured. Bristol, Coventry, Birmingham, Belfast, London and Portsmouth all badly hit. …
1940 King Haakon VII and his government are evacuated from Molde and taken to Tromso in northern Norway, from where they can continue the fight. 1941 British intelligence ‘Ultra’, intercept numerous messages giving a positive indication that the Germans plan to attack Crete. Another Brigade from the British 10th Indian Division lands at Basra, ignoring …
Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. The woman who would be one of the top stars in Hollywood in the 1940s had decided to become an actress after finishing her formal schooling.
1940 Allied reinforcements arrive in Andalsnes, Norway. 1941 The British evacuation of Greece is completed A clampdown is made in Norway against degenerate literature, with large-scale book burnings being held. 1942 Coastal “dimouts” go into effect along a fifteen-mile strip on the Eastern Seaboard, in response to German U-boat activity of the U.S. Atlantic coast. …
1940 Himmler signs the order that initiates construction of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. 1941 German troops cross the Egyptian border and capture the Halfaya Pass, forcing the British to pull back to defensive a line running from Buq Buq on the coast to Sofafi, some 50km in to the desert. The British also begin …
