Heroes Of The Caribbean (WW2 Documentary) | Timeline AChannel 4film about West Indian ex-servicemen and women who served in the British forces in both world wars. The personalities include a soldier who fought for the English regiment in WWII, a pilot who joined the ATS, plus other individua...
Bismarck, German battleship of World War II that had a short but spectacular career. The Bismarck was laid down in 1936 and launched in 1939. It displaced 52,600 tons, mounted eight 15-inch (38-centimetre) guns, and had a speed of 30 knots. In May 1941 t
•In1940,JapanoccupiedFrenchIndochina(Vietnam)uponagreementwiththeFrenchVichygovernment(维希政府）andjoinedtheAxispowers.•TheresultingoilshortageandfailurestosolvetheconflictdiplomaticallymadeJapandecidetocapturetheoilrichIndonesia（荷属东印度群岛）andtostartawarwiththeUSandtheGreatBritain.•InDecember1941,...
The 1941 campaign to support the German invasion of the Soviet Union also failed disastrously and condemned thousands of ill-equipped Italian troops to a nightmarish winter retreat. Hitler had to come to his ally’s help once again in North Africa. After the Italian surrender in North Africa ...
1940|1941|1942|1943|1944|1945|1946|1947|1948|1949 Chronology by Location Display the timeline of a specific place. Germany: Berlin Japan: Tokyo Yokosuka Kure Russia: Moscow United Kingdom: London United States: Washington Other: Shanghai, China ...
The Blitz –an abbreviation of the word Blitzkrieg (lightning war) – was the name given to the German air attacks on Britain between 7 September 1940 and 16 May 1941. London was bombed by accident on the night of 24 August 1940, and the following night Churchill ordered an attack on Ber...
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A dual timeline based around Arthur Evans’ archaeological digs at Knossos on Crete, this book has an incredible sense of place, time and history. The heat and the dust from the excavations rise up from the page as the Victorian characters scrape in the earth and wash dirt from shards of ...
38M Toldi IIA Kingdom of Hungary (1942-1945) Light Tank – 80 Converted At the onset of the Second World War in Europe, Hungary possessed only a modest number of armored vehicles. By 1941, these were reinforced by the introduction of the Toldi I and II light tanks. However, experience ...