1939 The Russians prepare to hand over 30,000 Polish soldiers and refugees to the Nazis who respond with their own prisoner exchange. The first Jewish ghetto is established in Lublin. 1940 Britain reopens the Burma road, which had been closed for three months on the condition of progress being made towards peace between Japan and […]
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Words At War Episode 39 “The Weeping Wood“ Released March 10, 1944. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “The Weeping Wood“ by Vicki Baum. Take a look at these other WWII Posts: Words at War: The New
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1939 French troops are pushed back in the Saar region. President Roosevelt prepares to sign an executive order closing all U.S. ports to submarines from belligerent nations. 1941 Destroyer USS Kearny damaged by German torpedo off Iceland;11 Americans are killed. US House of Representatives allow merchantmen to be armed. Taganrog on the Sea of Azov
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Words At War “My Country: A Poem of America“ Released June 5, 1945. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “My Country: A Poem of America”. The entire program is performed in verse. A moving, patriotic work…a sound portrait in
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1939 A German air attack damages the British cruisers HMS Southampton, HMS Edinburgh and the destroyer HMS Mohawk in the Firth of Forth, in Scotland. Heavy German attack on Western Front halted. German bombers attack Forth and Rosyth bridges. 1940 Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army’s first African American Brigadier General. U-124 torpedoes and
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1940 Bomb holes roof of Balham tube station: 64 killed. Italian submarine Toti sinks British submarine Rainbow. 16 million Americans already registered for National Service. Heavy Luftwaffe raid on London, Birmingham, and Bristol starts 900 fires. Italy demobilizes 300,000 soldiers for the harvest, leaving only 100,000 for upcoming invasion of Greece. 1941 Odessa, a Russian
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1939 U47 (Kapitanleutnant Prien) sinks HMS Royal Oak at anchor in Scapa Flow, killing 883. U47 then escapes undetected and returns home to Germany. The press in Germany declare Prien a hero. Polish submarine Orzel arrives in Britain having escaped internment in Estonia. 1940 Luftwaffe bomb falls on Balham Tube station in London, killing 66.
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1939 In skirmishes along Maginot Line, French destroy 3 bridges over Rhine. 1940 14-year old Princess Elizabeth made her first public speech, a radio address to the children of the British Commonwealth. Her ten-year-old sister Princess Margaret joined in at the end. 1941 German forces of Army Group Centre capture Kalinin, just 100 miles to
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Few vehicles from the Second World War are as recognizable—or as influential—as the M4 Sherman tank. With approximately 50,000 units produced, the Sherman became the backbone of Allied armored forces and a defining symbol of industrial power and battlefield adaptability. Origins of the M4 Sherman The M4’s design emerged from the need to mount a
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Francis was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on June 16, 1922. As the Depression took its hold on America, her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 9 in search of work.
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