World War II Today: January 1
1940 Conscription extended to 20 – 27 in Britain. 1941 Hitler, in his New Year’s order of the day to the German armed forces, promises “…completion, on the Western Front, of the greatest victory in our history…” The Western Desert Force is renamed as the XIII Corps. 1942 British forces take Bardia, along with 8,000 […]
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