WWII Today in History. On these pages you will find of some of the most important events that shaped World War 2.
1939 HMAS Hobart and five RAN destroyers leave Australia, bound for Britain. 60,000 Polish troops who are trapped in the Radom pocket surrender. Germans resume offensive on Warsaw, Poland. Stained glass in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is removed for safekeeping. 1940 Buckingham Palace again bombed; Royal Chapel wrecked. 5 Italian divisions and 200 tanks […]
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1939 First Anglo-French Supreme War Council convenes under Chamberlain and Daladier and agrees to postpone military operations. In response to the invasion of Poland, the French Army advances into Germany. On this day they reach their furthest penetration-five miles. The battle of the Vistula bend flares up near Kutno, the last major engagement of the
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1939 Arrival of first British troops in France officially announced. Polish submarines ordered to break through to Britain or to be interned in Sweden. 1940 Afternoon attacks on London: 110 killed and 260 injured; Dover suffers worst attack of war. Dutch SS formed under Dutch Nazi collaborationist Anton Mussert. 1941 Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges
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1939 After a formal parliamentary debate, Canada declares war on Germany. German troops achieve a breakthrough at Kutno and Sandomir and reach the Vistula. 1940 Another heavy night attack (September 10/11) on London, 18 killed; Buckingham Palace damaged. Hitler decides to postpone Operation Sealion until the 24th September. 1941 British convoy SC-42 (64 ships), sailing
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1939 Chamberlain’s Cabinet plans for a 3 year war. Advance elements of the BEF begin to a arrive in France. Hermann Goering boasts that Berlin will never be bombed by the enemy. The 4th Army (von Kluge) captures Lodz and Radom, as the 4th Panzer Division reaches the outskirts of Warsaw. Further penetrations in to
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1939 Polish defenders of the Westerplatte at Danzig surrender after a week of continuous bombardment. The Polish government leaves Warsaw for Lublin, while its forces surrounded at Radom face a hopeless situation. At Bedzin, 200 Jews are burned alive in a synagogue by the Germans who charge Poles with the crime, and then execute 30
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1940 Due to poor weather conditions, the Luftwaffe delays ‘Eagle Day’ until the 13th U-56 sinks armed merchant-cruiser HMS Transylvania off Northern Ireland. Germans ban speaking of French in Luxembourg and listening to BBC in Belgium. In Luxembourg, Germans ban speaking French. British agree to withdraw from Shanghai and northern China to appease Japan and
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1940 The Luftwaffe renews its attacks against Channel convoys and its escorts, with heavy air battles occurring over the Channel. The Germans lose 31 aircraft against the RAF’s 16. The Home Secretary announces July civilian air raid casualty figures as 258 killed and 320 seriously injured. British forces pay increased by 6d per day; privates’
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1941 Mussolini’s son Bruno killed in test-flight crash of P-108 bomber near Pisa. The United States Senate extends National Service to 18 months. Joseph Stalin appoints himself Generalissimo of the Red Army. Konoye asks FDR for summit meeting. He also proposes a Chinese police corps with Japanese officers and a timetable for a withdrawal of
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1940 Goering sets the 10th August 1940 as ‘Eagle day’, the start of the Luftwaffe major offensive against the RAF and its Airfields. Italian forces reach Odweina in British Somaliland. Battles at Tug Argan and at Hargeisa. 1941 The Japanese foreign minister, Admiral Nomura, proposes to the USA a meeting between Roosevelt and Prime Minister Konoye. 1942
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