1940 Bastille Day in France declared ‘day of meditation’, de Gaulle and Free French lay wreaths at Cenotaph in London. Churchill broadcasts that Hitler must recast his invasion plans. British commandos launch a raid against Guernsey in the Channel Islands, with negligible results. A force of German bombers attacks Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete. …
Evelyn Ankers, a beautiful movie actress who was a staple of Universal’s horror films in the 1940s, was born in Valparaiso, Chile to English parents on August 17th, 1918. Her parents repatriated the family back to England in the 1920s, and it was in Old Blighty that Ankers developed a desire to become an actress.
1940 Hitler issues Directive No. 15 outlining the details of ‘Operation Sea Lion’, the German invasion of the British Isles. In advance of the landings, the Luftwaffe is to begin operations against British defensive positions, airfields and radar installations along the southern coast of England on the 15th August 15 with 2.600 aircraft having been …
1940 The Luftwaffe carries out raids on Aberdeen in Scotland and Cardiff in Wales. Britain and Russia sign mutual assistance agreement in Moscow, pledging ‘no separate peace’. Britain launches “Pots into Planes” campaign to collect aluminum for military use. The last Vichy French troops in Syria surrender to British and Free French forces. 1941 Britain …
1940 Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, says ‘the sky is the limit’ for plane purchases from US, with spending running at £2.5 million per day on aircraft. Marshal Henri Pétain assumes position as Chief of State of Vichy France, with Pierre Laval as Prime Minister Admiral Raeder, C-in-C of the German Navy expresses his …
Words At War “Battle Report: Pearl Harbor To Coral Sea“ Released February 20, 1945. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “Battle Report: Pearl Harbor To Coral Sea”. The story of a sub-tender, the U. S. S. Canopus, which was …
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1940 Birthday Honors list includes only service recipients. British Union Party (Fascists) banned. Preliminary phase of Battle of Britain begins with German air attacks on Channel convoys with the aim of tempting the RAF in to battle. The Luftwaffe launches its first large scale attack on Britain as 70 aircraft attack the dock facilities at …
1940 Commons passed War Credits of £1,000,000,000. Tea rationing of 2oz per head per week introduced in Britain. RAF begins night bombing of Germany. The British submarine Salmon is lost south-west of Stavanger, Norway. The German raider Komet leaves Bergen in Norway for operations in the Pacific via the Northwest Passage in the Arctic Ocean …
1940 British Metropolitan Police to be armed when guarding vulnerable positions. The Swedish government agrees to transport German war material across Sweden to Norway. Swordfish aircraft damage the French battleship Richelieu at Dakar after the French reject demilitarization proposals. 1941 Soviet military mission arrives in London. Twenty B-17s fly in their first mission with the …
“Just like a taste of home” When you’re thousands of miles from home…on a shell-racked tropic isle…or high on a rocky ridge… How precious, then, is that “taste of home”… how comforting the rich aroma and full flavor of a slow-burning, cool-smoking Camel…the cigarette that is the first choice with men in all the services. …
