1940 The German Minesweeper M6 sinks Royal Navy submarine Tarpon. British and French troops land at Namsos near Narvik to assist Norwegians against German invasion. 1941 Germans break through the new Greek frontline. The Greek Army of Epirus withdraws from Albania. Yugoslavian government escape to Athens. Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California lay keel for its […]
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Dorthy Malone was born Dorothy Eloise Maloney in Chicago, Illinois on January 30, 1925. The family moved to Dallas, Texas, where she worked as a child model and began acting in school plays at Ursuline Convent and Highland Park High School.
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1940 A fierce engagement between German and British naval forces in the second battle of Narvik at Jassing Fjord, which results in the sinking of 8 German destroyers and a U-Boat whose surviving crews join Gebirgsjager units defending isolated Narvik. 1941 British Naval forces, this time supported by the Battleship HMS Warspite, again engage the
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1940 Norway announces German control of Kristiansand, Stavanger, Bergen and Trondheim in the south, Narvik in the north. 1941 The Yugoslav capital Belgrade, surrenders. Greek and British forces fall back to the Mount Olympus line in Greece. German armored units complete the encirclement of Tobruk and push on up the coast road towards the Egyptian
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1940 King Haakon VII of Norway appeals to all Norwegians to fight. The first British troop’s sets sail for Norway, although they have been mistakenly embarked without much of their heavy equipment. Royal Navy submarine Spearfish puts pocket battleship Lutzow out of action for a year. 1941 Rommel makes an attempt to capture Tobruk off
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Words At War “ One Damn Thing After Another“ Released November 14, 1944. Words At War, the series that brings you radio versions of the leading war book another adaptation of an important war book, “One Damn Thing After Another”. The humorous adventures of Tom Traynor, a war correspondent for NBC and the Los Angeles
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Virginia Grey was born on March 22, 1917 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor Ray Grey – he was one of the Keystone Kops – and director for Mack Sennett and appeared on the silent screen with Mabel Normand, Dorothy Gish and Ben Turpin, among others.
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1940 Denmark surrenders to the Germans. Bitter fighting as Germans advance north from Oslo. Six British destroyers surprise ten German Destroyers in Narvik Fiord, in what becomes known as the 1st Battle of Narvik. Two German and two British Destroyers are sunk and the British Flotilla commander, Captain Warburton-Lee is killed. He is later awarded
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1940 German troops invade Denmark and Norway simultaneously. There is very little opposition by the surprised Danes, with Copenhagen being captured within 12 hours. The Germans make sea-borne landings in Norway at Oslo, Kristiansand, Bergen, Trondheim and Narvik. An airborne landing is also made against the airfield at Stavanger. Norwegian defenders move inland. Major Quisling
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NBC Words at War Episode 7 “Prisoner of the Japs” This is the story of an American newspaperwoman who happened to be in Hong Kong on the day the Japanese attacked, and what happened to her as a “prisoner of the Japs.” The author appears after the drama and comments about the Japanese during the
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