Capt Ben Dix Adventures – November 14, 1943
Capt Ben Dix Adventures – November 14, 1943
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Capt Ben Dix Adventures – November 14, 1943
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1940 Coventry bombed. The Luftwaffe launches 449 bombers in a heavy night attack against the major manufacturing city of Coventry, dropping around 400 tons of bombs causing severe damage to industrial and civilian installations. The city centre is badly damaged, with 21 factories being destroyed and the cathedral wrecked but for its spire. The raid
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1939 HMS Blanche struck a mine and sank off the Thames Estuary. She was the first Royal Naval destroyer lost in the war. Two German supply ships are scuttled when cornered by the Royal Navy. German bombers attacked British territory for the first time, with a bombing raid on the Shetland Islands. No serious damage
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“Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.” -General George S. Patton, Jr. Take a look at these other WWII Posts: WWII Yank Magazine Pin Up: Ingrid Bergman WWII Today: November 12 WWII Today: November 13
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1939 Negotiations between Russia and Finland over territorial dispute reach deadlock. 1940 Germany prepares to enter war in Greece. Colonel Burns again proposes a Canadian parachute force to the Chief of General Staff. The idea is shelved, and no action is taken. 1942 The British 8th Army retakes Sollum and Bardia, while Panzer Army Afrika
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1885 General George S. Patton is born. 1918 At 11 a.m. World War I, the war to end all wars, ends. 1939 Queen Elizabeth broadcasts a message to the women of the Empire, calling them to join the war effort. 1940 On the anniversary of the end of World War I, several hundred Paris students
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1940A torpedo bomber raid cripples the Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy. 1941Churchill’s Mansion House Speech: Tells Japan that war on US means war on Britain. The Japanese Foreign Minister says their aim is to make the US and UK retreat from East Asia. US Army updates uniform regulations: the Parsons field jacket and M1 steel
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Vivian Austin was born Vivian Coe on February 23, 1920 in Hollywood, California. A former Miss Hollywood and a dancer, this Universal contract starlet of the 1940s entered films as a Goldwyn Girl in “The Goldwyn Follies” (1938).
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1937 Japanese troops invade Shanghai, China. 1938 Nazis kill 35 Jews, arrest thousands and destroy Jewish synagogues, homes and stores throughout Germany. The event becomes known as Kristallnacht, the night of the shattered glass. 1940 Start of a counter-offensive by the British Army against the Italian forces that have advanced into Egypt. Germany expels 180,000
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1939 A bomb intended to kill Hitler explodes at the annual meeting of the veterans of the 1923 Nazi Putsch in Munich, but the Führer had already left the beer cellar. The German media accused Britain of orchestrating the assassination attempt on Hitler. Two British SIS agents, Major Richard Stevens and Captain S. Payne Best,
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