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Operation Collar, first attack by UK forces (No. 11 Independent Company) at Boulogne
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No. 11 Independent Company first attack by UK forces at le Touquet
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First days of the war in Holland
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Photo by PK-Berichter Frey at the Haagse Schouw
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Identifying killed German and Dutch soldiers at the Grebbenberg
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Jews line-up before one of the last cinemas in Poland
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Westerbork as shelter for Jewish refugees
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Amsterdam Youth Service of Air Protection
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Jewish Market October 1940
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich
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British prisoners at Dunkerque
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A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into Paris
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Adolf Hitler in Paris, June 23, 1940
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St. Paul's Cathedral is pictured during the great fire raid
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The German ultimatum ordering the Dutch commander of Rotterdam
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British Navy place mines in Vestfjorden
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10 Nazis destroyers arrive in Narvik
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British Navy sailing with five destroyers into Ofotfjord
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British Navy, led by HMS Warspite, attack the remaining German destroyers
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Military operations centre in Harstad
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German soldiers defeat 200 Norwegian soldiers at Bjørnfjell
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French soldiers arrive at the British operations centre in Harstad.
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Allied forces gain control of Narvik
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The Germans attack Narvik once more and break through the French defence
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Start of the war in the Netherlands
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First transport of Poles to Auschwitz
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Battle of The Hague
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Seyss-Inquart takes over power in The Netherlands
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Seyss-Inquart visit to Groningen
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Majoor Sas warning Dutch government for war
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The occupation of Denmark
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Occupation of Norway
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Joseph Limburg committed suicide after the German attack
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Leonard Polak Daniels commited suicide
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Willem Adriaan Bonger commited suicide
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Emanuel Boekman commited suicide
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Menno ter Braak commited suicide
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Submarine Gar under construction
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German Bf 109 fighter after force-landing on a French beach
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German bombardement in Amsterdam
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A London bus after falling into a massive bomb crater
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Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder, Wilhelm Keitel, Erhard Milch, and Friedrich Fromm
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Canadian boy chasing after his father
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A tugboat guiding Bismarck at Brunsbüttel
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Burning Belgium tank in Zwijndrecht
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Germans crossing the Meuse, 10 May 1940
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Soviet-Finnish armistice
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East Surrey Regiment posed with a Thompson sub-machinegun
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Vyacheslav Molotov and Adolf Hitler at the Reich Chancellery
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Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop shaking hands
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Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin
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Wellington bomber at Vickers-Armstrongs factory
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A Wellington bomber built at the Vickers-Armstrongs factory in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 Age of conscription increased to 27 in the United.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 1,000 men from the Finnish 9th Division under the.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 Between the start of the European War on 1 Sep 193.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 10,000 Japanese troops launched a counter-attack i.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 Tingfang Bie passed away......
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 Gunner LAC T. Gibbin became the first airman from.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 German submarine U-58 sank neutral Swedish steamer.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 Lorraine was transferred to 2nd Battleship Divisio.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 Robert von Greim was promoted to the rank of Gener.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 British authorities detained several American ship.....
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On Mon. 01 Jan 1940 German aircraft bombed RAF Coastal Command at Sull.....
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On Tues. 02 Jan 1940 The Irish government introduced emergency powers t.....
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On Tues. 02 Jan 1940 Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano sent a sec.....
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On Tues. 02 Jan 1940 Battle of the Raate Road: At midnight in the very.....
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On Wed. 03 Jan 1940 American freighter Mormacsun was intercepted by th.....
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On Wed. 03 Jan 1940 Soviet submarine S-2 was sunk after hitting a nava.....
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On Wed. 03 Jan 1940 Battle of the Raate Road: Troops of Finnish 9th Di.....
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On Wed. 03 Jan 1940 USS Helena departed Norfolk, Virginia, United Stat.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jan 1940 British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax sent a dipl.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jan 1940 The first Norwegian volunteers departed Oslo, Norw.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jan 1940 HMS Mauritius was commissioned into service......
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On Fri. 05 Jan 1940 Oliver Stanley became the Secretary of State for W.....
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On Fri. 05 Jan 1940 Finnish troops continued to pin Soviet troops alon.....
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On Fri. 05 Jan 1940 Germany forbade the transport of any form of aide.....
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On Fri. 05 Jan 1940 The United Kingdom requested Norway for permission.....
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On Fri. 05 Jan 1940 As the first Norwegian volunteer fighters left Osl.....
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On Sat. 06 Jan 1940 USS Helena arrived at Guant
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On Sat. 06 Jan 1940 At 0300 hours, Finnish troops cut the Soviet colum.....
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On Sat. 06 Jan 1940 Adolf Hitler postponed the attack of France and th.....
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On Sat. 06 Jan 1940 The United States liner Manhattan was detained at.....
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On Sun. 07 Jan 1940 USS Helena departed Guant
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On Sun. 07 Jan 1940 Battle of Raate Road ended with the Finnish 9th Di.....
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On Sun. 07 Jan 1940 Vessels of German First Minesweeper Flotilla sank.....
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On Sun. 07 Jan 1940 At 0940 hours, British submarine HMS Undine spotte.....
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On Mon. 08 Jan 1940 The government of the United Kingdom introduced ra.....
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On Mon. 08 Jan 1940 In Finland, Finnish 9th Division took possession o.....
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On Mon. 08 Jan 1940 Benito Mussolini sent a message to Adolf Hitler, c.....
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On Tues. 09 Jan 1940 British submarine Starfish attacked German mineswe.....
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On Tues. 09 Jan 1940 German submarine U-19 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Tues. 09 Jan 1940 German bombers sank three Allied merchantmen in th.....
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On Tues. 09 Jan 1940 HMS Hermes began a period of refitting in Britain......
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On Tues. 09 Jan 1940 British liner SS Dunbar Castle hit a naval mine an.....
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On Wed. 10 Jan 1940 Hitler set the start date for Fall Gelb, the invas.....
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On Wed. 10 Jan 1940 Unofficial peace talks began between the Soviet Un.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jan 1940 Captain Tomozo Kikuchi was named the commanding of.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jan 1940 German submarine U-23 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jan 1940 Training began for 350 Hungarian men to fight in F.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jan 1940 Finnish IV Corps pinned Soviet 168th Division nort.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jan 1940 The Fleet Landing Exercise No. 6 began in the Cari.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jan 1940 Karl von Le Suire was awarded the Sudetenland Meda.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jan 1940 British oil tanker SS El Oso hit a naval mine and.....
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On Fri. 12 Jan 1940 German submarine U-23 torpedoed and sank Danish oi.....
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On Fri. 12 Jan 1940 Finnish ski troops in northern Finland, 12 Jan 194.....
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On Sat. 13 Jan 1940 Soviet submarine ShCh-324 attacked an Axis convoy.....
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On Sat. 13 Jan 1940 German submarine U-20 torpedoed Swedish steamer Sy.....
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On Sat. 13 Jan 1940 The Yakovlev YA-26 prototype, later to become the.....
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On Sat. 13 Jan 1940 Adolf Hitler postponed the attack of France and th.....
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On Sat. 13 Jan 1940 The German Navy Operations Division reported that.....
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On Sat. 13 Jan 1940 USS Helena crossed the Equator for the first time......
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On Sun. 14 Jan 1940 British cryptologists at the Government Code and C.....
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On Mon. 15 Jan 1940 Kapit_n zur See Ernst Kretzenberg took command of.....
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On Mon. 15 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Mon. 15 Jan 1940 British government revealed that nearly twice as m.....
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On Tues. 16 Jan 1940 Kichisaburo Nomura stepped down as Foreign Ministe.....
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On Tues. 16 Jan 1940 After penetrating Heligoland Bight, the British su.....
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On Tues. 16 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank the Greek.....
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On Tues. 16 Jan 1940 Due to the compromise of Fall Gelb plans, Adolf Hi.....
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On Tues. 16 Jan 1940 Hachiro Arita was named the Minister of Foreign Af.....
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On Tues. 16 Jan 1940 British tanker Inverdargle, with 12,000 tons of av.....
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On Tues. 16 Jan 1940 Oiler Patoka off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremer.....
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On Wed. 17 Jan 1940 German submarine U-25 torpedoed and sank British s.....
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On Wed. 17 Jan 1940 Belgium revealed to the German ambassador that Bel.....
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On Wed. 17 Jan 1940 Finland registered temperatures as low as -45 degr.....
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On Wed. 17 Jan 1940 Polish cryptographers in Paris, France cracked the.....
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On Wed. 17 Jan 1940 Finnish troops inspecting destroyed Soviet vehicle.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 sank the Danish vessel Canad.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jan 1940 German submarine U-25 sank Swedish merchant ship P.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jan 1940 German submarine U-55 sank Swedish merchant ship F.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jan 1940 German submarine U-9 attacked Swedish merchant shi.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jan 1940 Having already destroyed Soviet 163rd and 44th Div.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jan 1940 Tatsuta Maru departed San Francisco, California, U.....
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On Fri. 19 Jan 1940 German submarine U-9 torpedoed and sank Swedish me.....
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On Fri. 19 Jan 1940 German submarine U-55 sank Norwegian vessel Telnes.....
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On Fri. 19 Jan 1940 German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank French st.....
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On Fri. 19 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 began tracking Greek steamer.....
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On Fri. 19 Jan 1940 British submarine Sunfish fired 4 torpedoes at Ger.....
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On Fri. 19 Jan 1940 British destroyer Grenville hit a naval mine and s.....
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On Fri. 19 Jan 1940 Senator William Borah, leader of the isolationists.....
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On Sat. 20 Jan 1940 Yukikaze was commissioned into service with Comman.....
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On Sat. 20 Jan 1940 Corvette Trillium was ordered......
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On Sat. 20 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank Greek ste.....
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On Sat. 20 Jan 1940 German submarine U-57 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Sat. 20 Jan 1940 British tanker MV Caroni River hit a mine laid the.....
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On Sat. 20 Jan 1940 British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Church.....
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On Sat. 20 Jan 1940 Chinese troops captured Licheng, Shanxi Province,.....
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On Sun. 21 Jan 1940 The sinking of the HMS Grenville is announced by t.....
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On Sun. 21 Jan 1940 Soviet 8th Army launched unsuccessful attack on Fi.....
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On Sun. 21 Jan 1940 A German officer shot Mr. Opacki in the streets of.....
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On Sun. 21 Jan 1940 Swedish steam merchant vessel Andalusia, along wit.....
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On Sun. 21 Jan 1940 British cruiser Liverpool stopped Japanese liner A.....
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On Sun. 21 Jan 1940 Asama Maru was intercepted by British light cruise.....
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On Sun. 21 Jan 1940 German submarine U-22 attacked British merchant ve.....
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On Mon. 22 Jan 1940 USS Helena arrived at Buenos Aires, Argentina......
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On Mon. 22 Jan 1940 Norwegian merchant vessel Segovia, with 750 tons o.....
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On Mon. 22 Jan 1940 British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax criticized.....
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On Mon. 22 Jan 1940 The Finns, with Swedes and Norwegians already figh.....
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On Tues. 23 Jan 1940 British carrier HMS Illustrious left Malta for Ale.....
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On Tues. 23 Jan 1940 German submarine U-19 discovered a group of 20 une.....
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On Tues. 23 Jan 1940 Finnish 9th Division arrived at the village of Kuh.....
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On Tues. 23 Jan 1940 Britain lowered the road speed limit to 20 miles p.....
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On Tues. 23 Jan 1940 Britain was gripped in the coldest winter since 18.....
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On Wed. 24 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank French ca.....
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On Wed. 24 Jan 1940 German submarine U-23 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Wed. 24 Jan 1940 Finnish Army Force Talvela and Soviet 8th Army exc.....
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On Wed. 24 Jan 1940 Chinese troops captured Dongyangguan Pass, Shanxi.....
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On Wed. 24 Jan 1940 A Czechoslovakian branch of the French Army was es.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jan 1940 German submarine U-14 sank Norwegian ship Biarritz.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jan 1940 German submarine U-19 sank Latvian ship Everene 5.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank French sh.....
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On Fri. 26 Jan 1940 American minesweeper Quail arrived at Palmyra Atol.....
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On Fri. 26 Jan 1940 Expiration of the US-Japan Trade Treaty of 1911......
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On Fri. 26 Jan 1940 British Royal Navy ship Durham Castle, a recently.....
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On Fri. 26 Jan 1940 Believing that Germany would not be able to direct.....
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On Fri. 26 Jan 1940 Roderick Carr was named the commanding officer of.....
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On Sat. 27 Jan 1940 Submarine Tautog was launched......
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On Sat. 27 Jan 1940 German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank Danish sh.....
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On Sat. 27 Jan 1940 German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Sat. 27 Jan 1940 Finnish Army General H_gglund ordered the Finnish.....
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On Sat. 27 Jan 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered Wilhelm Keitel to continue wi.....
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On Sat. 27 Jan 1940 Construction work at Palmyra Atoll began to improv.....
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On Sat. 27 Jan 1940 Launch of submarine Tautog, 27 Jan 1940.....
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On Sun. 28 Jan 1940 USS Helena departed Buenos Aires, Argentina......
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On Sun. 28 Jan 1940 German submarine U-34 torpedoed Greek merchant shi.....
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On Sun. 28 Jan 1940 Soviet artillery continued to bombard Poppius, Mil.....
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On Sun. 28 Jan 1940 Chinese troops captured Lucheng, Shanxi Province,.....
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On Sun. 28 Jan 1940 Japanese 26th Division attacked Wuyuan, Suiyuan Pr.....
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On Sun. 28 Jan 1940 German submarine U-44 torpedoed and sank Greek coa.....
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On Mon. 29 Jan 1940 USS Helena arrived at Montevideo, Uruguay......
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On Mon. 29 Jan 1940 Finnish Army 9th Division attacked the Soviet 54th.....
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On Mon. 29 Jan 1940 German aircraft attacked unarmed British lightship.....
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On Mon. 29 Jan 1940 German submarine U-51 torpedoed and sunk Norwegian.....
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On Mon. 29 Jan 1940 Germany renamed Reichsgau Posen, in occupied Polan.....
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On Tues. 30 Jan 1940 German submarine U-55 sank British tanker Vaclite,.....
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On Tues. 30 Jan 1940 German torpedo boat Iltis mis-identified German su.....
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On Tues. 30 Jan 1940 German aircraft bombed shipping in the English Cha.....
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On Tues. 30 Jan 1940 The first confirmed U-Boat kill by an aircraft occ.....
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On Tues. 30 Jan 1940 Schlesien in the western Baltic, late Jan 1940Prim.....
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On Wed. 31 Jan 1940 German submarine U-13 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Wed. 31 Jan 1940 German submarine U-21 fired two torpedoes at Danis.....
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On Wed. 31 Jan 1940 Soviet forces gathered in the Summa sector in the.....
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On Wed. 31 Jan 1940 Desperately short of aircraft, the British made a.....
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On Wed. 31 Jan 1940 Sir John Simon of Britain announced that food subs.....
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On Wed. 31 Jan 1940 Frozen dead Russian soldier in Finland, 31 Jan 194.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 The keel of refrigerated cargo ship Telemachus was.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 Soviet artillery pieces fired 300,000 shells in th.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 German submarine U-13 torpedoed and sank Swedish s.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank British c.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 In Russia the noted stage director, Vsevolod Meyer.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille was awarded the Pilot's Bad.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 SS-Reichsführer Himmler ordered inspections of.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 In Britain, the Admiralty took over the responsibi.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 In the British House of Commons, Prime Minister Ne.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 The keel of battleship Alabama was laid down at No.....
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On Thurs. 01 Feb 1940 Keel laying of battleship Alabama, Norfolk Naval S.....
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On Fri. 02 Feb 1940 Soviet troops continued to assert pressure on Finn.....
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On Fri. 02 Feb 1940 German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank British s.....
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On Fri. 02 Feb 1940 Tirpitz fitting out, 2 Feb 1940A sailor of cruiser.....
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On Sat. 03 Feb 1940 USS Helena departed Montevideo, Uruguay......
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On Sat. 03 Feb 1940 German bombers attacked British minesweepers Sphin.....
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On Sat. 03 Feb 1940 German submarine U-25 torpedoed and sank British s.....
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On Sat. 03 Feb 1940 The first enemy aircraft to crash in England was a.....
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On Sat. 03 Feb 1940 The British Air Ministry issued specification E.28.....
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On Sat. 03 Feb 1940 Japanese 26th Division captured Wuyuan, Suiyuan Pr.....
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On Sat. 03 Feb 1940 German submarine U-58 chased Estonian vessel Reet.....
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On Sun. 04 Feb 1940 Members of the Balkan Entente (Romania, Yugoslavia.....
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On Sun. 04 Feb 1940 Japanese 26th Division captured Linhe, Suiyuan Pro.....
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On Sun. 04 Feb 1940 Destroyed Lutheran church of Sortavala, Finland, 4.....
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On Mon. 05 Feb 1940 German submarine U-41 damaged Dutch tanker Ceronia.....
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On Mon. 05 Feb 1940 USS Helena arrived at Santos, Brazil......
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On Mon. 05 Feb 1940 After meeting in Paris, France, the Allied Supreme.....
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On Tues. 06 Feb 1940 Finnish 9th Division completed its encirclement of.....
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On Tues. 06 Feb 1940 The "Carreless Talk Costs Lives" slogan debuted, d.....
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On Tues. 06 Feb 1940 Vultee received an order from the Swedish governme.....
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On Tues. 06 Feb 1940 Estonian steamer Anu sank after hit a mine 30 mile.....
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On Wed. 07 Feb 1940 Information regarding Allied Supreme War Council's.....
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On Wed. 07 Feb 1940 Soviet troops attacked the Summa gap in Finland fo.....
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On Wed. 07 Feb 1940 Belfast-Liverpool ferry boat Munster, with 45 crew.....
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On Wed. 07 Feb 1940 Convicted IRA terrorists Peter Barnes and James Ri.....
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On Wed. 07 Feb 1940 Douglas Bader joined the British No. 19 Squadron R.....
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On Wed. 07 Feb 1940 At a conference presided over by Hermann Göring.....
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On Thurs. 08 Feb 1940 The Soviet Union asked Finland to choose an island.....
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On Thurs. 08 Feb 1940 3 Hawk 75 fighters of the Chinese 18th Squadron in.....
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On Thurs. 08 Feb 1940 P-36 Hawk fighter based at Hickam Field in flight.....
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On Fri. 09 Feb 1940 Submarine Squalus was renamed USS Sailfish......
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On Fri. 09 Feb 1940 Winston Churchill made a radio broadcast to warn B.....
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On Fri. 09 Feb 1940 The Finnish defensive Mannerheim Line in the Summa.....
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On Fri. 09 Feb 1940 British vessel Chagres, carrying 1,500 tons of Cam.....
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On Fri. 09 Feb 1940 German destroyers Z3, Z4, and Z16 deployed 110 min.....
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On Fri. 09 Feb 1940 No. 21 Squadron RAAF Flying Officer James Herbert.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 Soviet troops penetrated the Finnish defensive Man.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 Two wooden British ships HMS Salve and HMS Servito.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 German submarine U-48 stopped Dutch steamer Burger.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 German submarine U-37 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 USS Helena departed Santos, Brazil......
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 Hiroshi Nemoto was named the chief of staff of the.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 Jews from Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) and Stral.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 HMS Hermes completed a period of refitting in Brit.....
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On Sat. 10 Feb 1940 In Washington DC, United States, President Frankli.....
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On Sun. 11 Feb 1940 Finnish troops were forced to withdraw to secondar.....
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On Sun. 11 Feb 1940 A comprehensive trade agreement was signed between.....
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On Sun. 11 Feb 1940 Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, died.....
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On Sun. 11 Feb 1940 The second Vultee Model 48 Vanguard prototype airc.....
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On Sun. 11 Feb 1940 Oiler Patoka at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 11 Feb.....
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 USS Helena arrived at Guant
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 At 0500 hours, Soviet tanks dragged sleds with exp.....
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 British Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Gleaner located.....
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Hasty intercepted.....
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 German submarine U-53 sank Swedish ship Dalarö.....
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 German submarine U-26 sank Norwegian ship Nidarhol.....
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 Erwin Rommel was named the commanding officer of t.....
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On Mon. 12 Feb 1940 The first deportation of German Jews into occupied.....
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On Tues. 13 Feb 1940 German submarine U-50 fired several torpedoes at N.....
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On Tues. 13 Feb 1940 German submarine U-25 fired two torpedoes at Norwe.....
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On Tues. 13 Feb 1940 German submarine U-53 sank Swedish ship Norna west.....
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On Tues. 13 Feb 1940 Finnish troops tried to seal the hole on the Manne.....
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On Tues. 13 Feb 1940 The US Senate approved in principle, by a vote of.....
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On Tues. 13 Feb 1940 3 Hawk 75 fighters of the Chinese 18th Squadron in.....
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On Tues. 13 Feb 1940 Destroyed Russian T-26 light tank, Finland, 13 Feb.....
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On Wed. 14 Feb 1940 German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee's suppl.....
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On Wed. 14 Feb 1940 German submarine U-57 torpedoed British tanker Gre.....
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On Wed. 14 Feb 1940 German submarine U-53 sank Danish ship Martin Gold.....
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On Wed. 14 Feb 1940 German submarine U-26 sank British steamer Langlee.....
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On Wed. 14 Feb 1940 German submarine U-48 sank British merchant ship S.....
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On Wed. 14 Feb 1940 Finnish troop began withdrawing from the L_hde sec.....
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On Wed. 14 Feb 1940 The British government agreed to allow British vol.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 North of Lake Ladoga in Finland, Finnish troops de.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 German submarine U-50 sank Danish ship Maryland we.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 German submarine U-37 sank Danish ship Aase en rou.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 German submarine U-26 sank Norwegian ship Steinsta.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 German submarine U-48 sank Dutch tanker Den Haag (.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 Major General Erwin Rommel took command of the 7th.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 Hubert Lanz was made the Chief of Staff for XVIII.....
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On Thurs. 15 Feb 1940 No. 110 Army Co-operation (Auxiliary) Squadron of.....
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On Fri. 16 Feb 1940 German freighter Altmark, former supply ship for p.....
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On Fri. 16 Feb 1940 Finnish troops abandoned the Mannerheim Line overn.....
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On Fri. 16 Feb 1940 German submarine U-14 sank Danish ships Rhone (kil.....
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On Fri. 16 Feb 1940 In Egypt, the 7th Armoured Division "The Desert Ra.....
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On Fri. 16 Feb 1940 Altmark at J
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On Sat. 17 Feb 1940 Norway protested British neutrality violation of a.....
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On Sat. 17 Feb 1940 As it was customary for new corps commanding offic.....
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On Sat. 17 Feb 1940 German submarine U-10 sank Norwegian ship Kvernaas.....
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On Sat. 17 Feb 1940 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Pyrrhus 75.....
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On Sat. 17 Feb 1940 German submarine U-48 sank Finnish ship Wilja sout.....
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On Sun. 18 Feb 1940 British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Daring (Commander.....
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On Sun. 18 Feb 1940 German submarines sank six merchant vessels that e.....
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On Sun. 18 Feb 1940 Finnish troops destroyed a pocket of Soviet troops.....
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On Sun. 18 Feb 1940 German Army General Franz Halder, reluctantly, as.....
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On Sun. 18 Feb 1940 Roosevelt and his Naval Aide, Captain Daniel J. Ca.....
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On Mon. 19 Feb 1940 The Soviet 18th Division attacked across the froze.....
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On Mon. 19 Feb 1940 German submarine U-23, commanded by Kapit_nleutnan.....
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On Mon. 19 Feb 1940 Adolf Hitler, alarmed by the Altmark Incident of 1.....
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On Mon. 19 Feb 1940 US Secretary of State Cordell Hull extended the Am.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 The keel for corvette Trillium was laid down......
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was appointed to.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 German submarine U-129 sank Norwegian ship Nordvan.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 German submarine U-156 torpedoed and crippled Amer.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 Soviet troops began penetrating the Finnish V-line.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 German submarine U-96 sank British merchant ship E.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 German submarine U-54 became missing in the North.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 Representatives of the German Gestapo organization.....
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On Tues. 20 Feb 1940 Finnish soldiers on skis with reindeers, near J_ni.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 The British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Gurkha (Comma.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 German submarine U-50 torpedoed and sank Dutch shi.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 German submarine U-57 damaged British steamer Loch.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 The Finnish V-line on the Karelian Isthmus continu.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 Adolf Hitler authorized the Operation Weserübun.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 The future site of Auschwitz Concentration Camp wa.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 Emergency measures were introduced in Britain to d.....
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On Wed. 21 Feb 1940 Finnish Army machine gun crew during the Winter Wa.....
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On Thurs. 22 Feb 1940 Georg von Küchler ordered his subordinates to s.....
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On Thurs. 22 Feb 1940 Six German destroyers were launched into the North.....
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On Thurs. 22 Feb 1940 In the Atlantic Ocean, German submarine U-23 sank.....
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On Thurs. 22 Feb 1940 German submarine U-50 sank British tanker British.....
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On Thurs. 22 Feb 1940 Soviet 43rd Division attacked across frozen waters.....
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On Thurs. 22 Feb 1940 Irish Republican Army bombs injured 12 in London,.....
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On Fri. 23 Feb 1940 Sweden denied British and French troops passage ac.....
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On Fri. 23 Feb 1940 In return for withdrawing from Petsamo, USSR deman.....
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On Fri. 23 Feb 1940 The Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire, inc.....
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On Fri. 23 Feb 1940 British destroyer HMS Gurkha sank German submarine.....
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On Fri. 23 Feb 1940 The citizens of London, England, United Kingdom ch.....
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On Sat. 24 Feb 1940 USS Helena departed Guant
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On Sat. 24 Feb 1940 Foreign ministers from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.....
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On Sat. 24 Feb 1940 German submarine U-63 sank Swedish merchant ship S.....
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On Sat. 24 Feb 1940 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain condemn.....
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On Sat. 24 Feb 1940 Hitler gave approval to detailed plans for the inv.....
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On Sat. 24 Feb 1940 Commander Mario Giorgini took command of 1a Flotti.....
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On Sun. 25 Feb 1940 British submarine HMS Narwhal, escorting convoy HN.....
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On Sun. 25 Feb 1940 No. 110 Army Co-operation (Auxiliary) Squadron of.....
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On Sun. 25 Feb 1940 Blenheim light bomber of the RAF being towed away.....
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On Mon. 26 Feb 1940 Soviet troops continued to attack toward Viipuri,.....
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On Mon. 26 Feb 1940 Newly-constructed British large passenger liner Qu.....
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On Tues. 27 Feb 1940 Soviet troops launched a pincer movement intended.....
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On Tues. 27 Feb 1940 USS Helena arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, United St.....
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On Wed. 28 Feb 1940 At 0045 hours, Soviet High Command permitted the s.....
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On Wed. 28 Feb 1940 The United Kingdom and France offered military ass.....
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On Thurs. 29 Feb 1940 Negotiations to end the Winter War between Finland.....
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On Thurs. 29 Feb 1940 German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank Italian s.....
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On Thurs. 29 Feb 1940 German steamers Heidelberg and Troja left the Dutc.....
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On Thurs. 29 Feb 1940 Adolf Hitler approved Nikolaus von Falkenhorst's i.....
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On Thurs. 29 Feb 1940 RMS Queen Elizabeth set sail from Scotland, United.....
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On Thurs. 29 Feb 1940 In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California (becaus.....
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On Fri. 01 Mar 1940 Adolf Hitler issued a formal war directive for Wes.....
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On Fri. 01 Mar 1940 The Libyan 1st and 2nd Divisions were formed by th.....
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On Fri. 01 Mar 1940 Guszt
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On Fri. 01 Mar 1940 US Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles arrived i.....
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On Fri. 01 Mar 1940 USS Helena departed Norfolk, Virginia, United Stat.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 O'Brien was commissioned into service......
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 The United Kingdom and France once again requested.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 The cargo-liner SS Domala carrying mainly British.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 British cruiser HMS Berwick stopped German steamer.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 British cruiser HMS Dunedin stopped German steamer.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 Soviet troops attempted to establish a beachhead w.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 Hungarian volunteers reached a training facility i.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 Adolf Hitler met with US Under Secretary of State.....
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On Sat. 02 Mar 1940 USS Helena arrived at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 Italy protested UK-proposed ban on Italian imports.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 Two days after the offered peace ultimatum expired.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 British cruiser HMS York stopped German steamer Ar.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 German submarine U-29 laid mines in the Bristol Ch.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 Adolf Hitler decided that the invasion of Norway w.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 Hermann Göring met with US Under Secretary of S.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 In a session of the Soviet Politburo in Moscow, Ru.....
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On Sun. 03 Mar 1940 As the large passenger liner Queen Elizabeth saile.....
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On Mon. 04 Mar 1940 French steamer S.N.A.1 collided with British ship.....
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On Mon. 04 Mar 1940 German submarine U-29 sank British ship Pacific Re.....
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On Mon. 04 Mar 1940 Soviet and Finnish troops continued to fight near.....
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On Mon. 04 Mar 1940 The Chief Executive Officer of the American firm G.....
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On Mon. 04 Mar 1940 US Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles departed.....
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On Mon. 04 Mar 1940 Soviet soldier in prone position with rifle and sh.....
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On Tues. 05 Mar 1940 The Soviet Politburo declared the Polish officers.....
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On Tues. 05 Mar 1940 Despite heavy casualties delivered by the Finnish.....
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On Tues. 05 Mar 1940 German submarine U-17 torpedoed and sank Dutch ste.....
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On Tues. 05 Mar 1940 Hermann Göring complained that he was not consu.....
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On Tues. 05 Mar 1940 Communist Chinese troops laid siege to Yanchuan Co.....
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 The French battleship Jean Bart was launched.....
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 Based on a compromise of the original plan, modifi.....
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 British cruiser HMS Berwick intercepted German fre.....
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 Fighting between Finnish and Soviet forces continu.....
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 Dutch submarines O9, O10, and O11 departed from De.....
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 Major General Wilhelm S
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 Simo H_yh_ was shot in the lower left jaw by a Sov.....
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On Wed. 06 Mar 1940 Finnish diplomats arrived in Moscow, Russia.....
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On Thurs. 07 Mar 1940 The British boarded 9 Italian ships from Rotterdam.....
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On Thurs. 07 Mar 1940 Soviet troops began to break through the final def.....
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On Thurs. 07 Mar 1940 Adolf Hitler allocated 8 divisions for the invasio.....
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On Thurs. 07 Mar 1940 Oberst Alois Stoeckl was named the commanding offi.....
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On Thurs. 07 Mar 1940 RMS Queen Elizabeth arrived at New York, New York,.....
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On Fri. 08 Mar 1940 As Soviet troops entered the suburbs of Viipuri, F.....
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On Fri. 08 Mar 1940 British cruiser HMS Dunedin and Canadian destroyer.....
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On Fri. 08 Mar 1940 British steamer Counsellor, flagship of Rear Admir.....
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On Sat. 09 Mar 1940 The British released the Italian coal ships detain.....
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On Sat. 09 Mar 1940 Soviet troops captured the village of Tali on the.....
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On Sat. 09 Mar 1940 German submarine U-14 sank 3 British steamers 5 mi.....
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On Sat. 09 Mar 1940 German submarine U-38 fired a warning shot from it.....
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On Sat. 09 Mar 1940 German submarine U-28 torpedoed and sank Greek ste.....
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On Sat. 09 Mar 1940 Lieutenant General Mikio Uemura was named the chie.....
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On Sat. 09 Mar 1940 Finnish 76-mm field gun camouflaged in snowy terra.....
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On Sun. 10 Mar 1940 Repair ship Akashi was commissioned into service w.....
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On Sun. 10 Mar 1940 German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop met with Mussol.....
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On Sun. 10 Mar 1940 Captain Gunji Kogure was named the commanding offi.....
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On Sun. 10 Mar 1940 Noted Russian writer and playwright, Mikhail Bulga.....
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On Sun. 10 Mar 1940 Finnish coastal defense ship Ilmarinen anchored at.....
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On Mon. 11 Mar 1940 5 Soviet tanks reached Tammisuo Station in northea.....
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On Mon. 11 Mar 1940 British and French governments dispatched troops t.....
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On Mon. 11 Mar 1940 German submarine U-28 torpedoed and sank Dutch tan.....
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On Mon. 11 Mar 1940 Blenheim bombers of 82 Squadron, RAF Bomber Comman.....
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On Mon. 11 Mar 1940 German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop met with Mussol.....
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On Mon. 11 Mar 1940 French battleship Bretagne and cruiser Algerie, es.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 At 0900 hours, Finnish President Kyösti Kallio.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 Swedish offered Finland a defensive alliance, but.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 A transport of 1,000 German Jews was forced to mar.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 US Under Secretary for State Sumner Welles returne.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 Adolf Hitler met with Colin Ross, whom Hitler cons.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop continued his m.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 20,000 British troops embarked on transport ships.....
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On Tues. 12 Mar 1940 Henry Arnold received a warning from Franklin Roos.....
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On Wed. 13 Mar 1940 At 0200 hours in Moscow (0100 hours Finland time).....
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On Wed. 13 Mar 1940 British troops originally Norway-bound were disemb.....
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On Wed. 13 Mar 1940 Punjabi nationalist Udham Singh assassinated the f.....
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On Wed. 13 Mar 1940 The Fleet Landing Exercise No. 6 in the Caribbean.....
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On Wed. 13 Mar 1940 Simo H_yh_ regained consciousness after being seve.....
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On Wed. 13 Mar 1940 Joachim von Ribbentrop informed the Italians that.....
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On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 HMS Eagle suffered an accidental bomb explosion wh.....
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On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 The Finnish Parliament met and debated over the ra.....
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On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 The first of the over 450,000 Finnish civilians in.....
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On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 According to Alfred Jodl's diary entry for this da.....
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On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 Viktor Abakumov was promoted to the rank of State.....
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On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 First "bombe" decipher machine became operational.....
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On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 British Foreign Minister Lord Halifax began to ask.....
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On Fri. 15 Mar 1940 British RAF bombers dropped propaganda leaflets ov.....
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On Fri. 15 Mar 1940 The Finnish parliament ratified the Moscow Peace T.....
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On Fri. 15 Mar 1940 British Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser HMS Kani.....
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On Fri. 15 Mar 1940 HMS Eagle arrived at Singapore for repairs for dam.....
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On Fri. 15 Mar 1940 In Romania, King Carol II granted amnesty to membe.....
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On Fri. 15 Mar 1940 Captain Albert C. Read inspected Saratoga.....
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On Sat. 16 Mar 1940 Benito Mussolini held peace talks with US envoy Su.....
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On Sat. 16 Mar 1940 Yugoslavian steamer Slava hit a mine laid by Germa.....
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On Sat. 16 Mar 1940 32 German Ju 88 dive bombers bombed the Royal Navy.....
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On Sun. 17 Mar 1940 German submarine U-38 torpedoed and sank Danish me.....
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On Sun. 17 Mar 1940 Dr Fritz Todt was appointed the German Reich Minis.....
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On Sun. 17 Mar 1940 British miners from Nottinghamshire, England voted.....
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On Sun. 17 Mar 1940 In the wake of a German raid on Scapa Flow, the Br.....
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On Mon. 18 Mar 1940 German bombers attacked Dutch trawler Protinus off.....
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On Mon. 18 Mar 1940 HMS Edinburgh arrived at Tyne, England, United Kin.....
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On Mon. 18 Mar 1940 Alan Turing's first electromechanical machine, "bo.....
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On Mon. 18 Mar 1940 Finnish Canet 152mm/45 naval gun in coastal defens.....
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On Tues. 19 Mar 1940 In retaliation for the Scapa Flow raid, the RAF at.....
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On Tues. 19 Mar 1940 German submarine U-19 sank Danish steamer Minsk in.....
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On Tues. 19 Mar 1940 Members of the British House of Commons debated Br.....
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On Tues. 19 Mar 1940 The French Parliament criticized Prime Minister Da.....
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On Tues. 19 Mar 1940 British destroyer HMS Jervis collided with Swedish.....
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On Tues. 19 Mar 1940 Yosuke Matsuoka departed Berlin, Germany......
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On Tues. 19 Mar 1940 Result of Lieutenant Jimmy Thach.....
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On Wed. 20 Mar 1940 British bombers sank converted minesweeper Sperrbr.....
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On Wed. 20 Mar 1940 German submarine U-22 departed Wilhelmshaven. Comm.....
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On Wed. 20 Mar 1940 German submarine U-19 sank Danish steamer Viking i.....
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On Wed. 20 Mar 1940 HMS Fortune sank German submarine U-44 off Narvik,.....
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On Wed. 20 Mar 1940 Chinese troops attacked Japanese-occupied Wuyuan,.....
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On Wed. 20 Mar 1940 Lavrentiy Beria dispatched 11 NKVD killing squads.....
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On Wed. 20 Mar 1940 RMS Queen Mary departed New York, New York, United.....
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On Thurs. 21 Mar 1940 Paul Reynaud was named the Prime Minister of Franc.....
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On Thurs. 21 Mar 1940 German submarine U-38 sank neutral Danish merchant.....
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On Thurs. 21 Mar 1940 British and Turkish delegations met in Syria......
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On Thurs. 21 Mar 1940 Chinese troops captured Japanese-occupied Wuyuan,.....
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On Thurs. 21 Mar 1940 Semyon Timoshenko was made a Hero of the Soviet Un.....
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On Thurs. 21 Mar 1940 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California,.....
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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud named his prede.....
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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 German submarines sank 7 neutral ships......
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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 Soviet military personnel began to arrive at the H.....
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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 The Royal Navy increased patrols in Norwegian wate.....
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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 The British government was warned of the possibili.....
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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 Chinese troops secured major roads leading into Wu.....
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On Fri. 22 Mar 1940 American gunboat USS Asheville arrived at Gulangyu.....
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On Sat. 23 Mar 1940 Dutch fighters accidentally shot down a RAF bomber.....
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On Sat. 23 Mar 1940 The British Malaya Force was formed to observe Ger.....
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On Sat. 23 Mar 1940 British submarine (HMS Truant or HMS Trident) inte.....
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On Sat. 23 Mar 1940 IRA prisoners at Dartmoor, England staged a riot......
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On Sat. 23 Mar 1940 Deportation of Jews in German-occupied Eastern Eur.....
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On Sun. 24 Mar 1940 French destroyer La Railleuse suffered an accident.....
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 German submarine U-47 sank Danish steamer Britta 3.....
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 Hungarian Prime Minister P
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 Swiss inteliigence warned Norway regarding evidenc.....
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 French Prime Minister Reynaud wrote to the British.....
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 The British government forbade captured servicemen.....
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 German submarine U-57 sank British tanker Daghesta.....
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 The United States gave contractors to the US Army.....
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On Mon. 25 Mar 1940 By this date, the strength of the Japanese counter.....
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On Tues. 26 Mar 1940 German submarine U-38 stopped Norwegian merchant s.....
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On Tues. 26 Mar 1940 French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud called for his.....
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On Tues. 26 Mar 1940 Stalin refused to meet Hitler to discuss an issue.....
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On Tues. 26 Mar 1940 Chinese troops evacuated Wuyuan, Suiyuan Province,.....
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On Tues. 26 Mar 1940 German submarine U-22 became missing in the North.....
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On Tues. 26 Mar 1940 The British War Cabinet debated French Prime Minis.....
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On Wed. 27 Mar 1940 New Zealand Prime Minister Michael Savage died fro.....
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On Wed. 27 Mar 1940 The French government requested the Soviet Union t.....
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On Wed. 27 Mar 1940 A dredge was towed to Midway Atoll to begin work t.....
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On Thurs. 28 Mar 1940 Although the United Kingdom rejected French sugges.....
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On Thurs. 28 Mar 1940 Norwegian steamer SS Burgos hit a German mine and.....
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On Fri. 29 Mar 1940 To prepare for the planned mining of Norwegian wat.....
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On Fri. 29 Mar 1940 British armed merchant cruiser HMS Transylvania in.....
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On Fri. 29 Mar 1940 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov declared the Sovie.....
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On Fri. 29 Mar 1940 Prime Minister Mitsumasa Yonai speaking to childre.....
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On Sat. 30 Mar 1940 Germany supplied weapons to the Soviet Union......
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On Sat. 30 Mar 1940 Winston Churchill acknowledged Soviet neutrality i.....
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On Sat. 30 Mar 1940 French Minister of Defense Daladier persuaded the.....
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On Sat. 30 Mar 1940 Japanese troops began to evacuate Wuyuan, Suiyuan.....
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On Sat. 30 Mar 1940 Japan installed a puppet government in Nanjing, Ch.....
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On Sat. 30 Mar 1940 Finland ceded territory to Russia......
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On Sat. 30 Mar 1940 Gladiator fighter of Flying Regiment 19 Wang Jingw.....
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On Sun. 31 Mar 1940 British Prime Minister Chamberlain called off the.....
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On Sun. 31 Mar 1940 German WWI-era battleship Hessen (serving as ice b.....
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On Sun. 31 Mar 1940 Mussolini informed King Vittorio Emanuele III of I.....
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On Sun. 31 Mar 1940 Japanese troops completed the evacuation of Wuyuan.....
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On Sun. 31 Mar 1940 The armed merchant raider Atlantis set sail from G.....
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On Sun. 31 Mar 1940 The British Ministry of Informations introduced pa.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 Hitler set the date of the Denmark and Norway inva.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 British Royal Navy Vice Admiral Max Horton, in cha.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 The towns of Ota, Kuai, Sawano, and Niragawa in Gu.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 The fourth group of the German Kampfgeschwader 55.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 Chinese troops captured Wuyuan, Suiyuan Province,.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), creat.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 USS Skipjack departed San Diego, California, Unite.....
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On Mon. 01 Apr 1940 South Dakota under construction at the New York Sh.....
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On Tues. 02 Apr 1940 In the afternoon, Adolf Hitler issued the directiv.....
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On Tues. 02 Apr 1940 German submarine U-38 sank Finnish steamer Signe o.....
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On Tues. 02 Apr 1940 British submarines began to patrol waters that Vic.....
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On Tues. 02 Apr 1940 Werner Mölders shot down Flight Lieutenant C. D.....
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On Tues. 02 Apr 1940 Germans attacked Allied Scapa Flow and North Sea c.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 Submarine Orzel departed Rosyth, Scotland, United.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 Katyn Massacre: Over 20,000 Polish police, militar.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 Winston Churchill was appointed to chair a committ.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 A pro-Axis government came to power in Iraq......
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 German supply ships began departing for the invasi.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 Flight Lieutenant Ryder of No. 41 Squadron RAF bec.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 Chinese troops secured the Wuyuan region in Suiyua.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 A British Short Sunderland flying boat on patrol o.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 The keel of submarine Grayback was laid down by th.....
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On Wed. 03 Apr 1940 Experimental A-17A aircraft at the National Adviso.....
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On Thurs. 04 Apr 1940 Aktion 14 F 13 began; it was the first documented.....
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On Thurs. 04 Apr 1940 British newspapers reported concentrations of troo.....
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On Thurs. 04 Apr 1940 British Vice Admiral Max Horton ordered British su.....
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On Thurs. 04 Apr 1940 Winston Churchill traveled to Paris, France to per.....
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On Thurs. 04 Apr 1940 The Netherlands declared itself in a state of sieg.....
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On Fri. 05 Apr 1940 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announc.....
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On Fri. 05 Apr 1940 British submarine HMS Spearfish departed Blyth for.....
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On Fri. 05 Apr 1940 Song Zheyuan passed away in Mianyang County, Sichu.....
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On Fri. 05 Apr 1940 British RAF aircraft attacked German shipping at W.....
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On Fri. 05 Apr 1940 Norwegian ambassador in Berlin warned Danish and N.....
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On Fri. 05 Apr 1940 The United Kingdom informed Norway and Sweden of i.....
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On Sat. 06 Apr 1940 Orion departed Germany on her first raiding missio.....
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On Sat. 06 Apr 1940 RAF Bomber Command suspended leaflet dropping miss.....
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On Sat. 06 Apr 1940 German submarine U-59 torpedoed and sank Norwegian.....
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On Sat. 06 Apr 1940 British submarines Truant and Seal departed Rosyth.....
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On Sat. 06 Apr 1940 RAF aircraft conducted a photo reconnaissance miss.....
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On Sat. 06 Apr 1940 German submarine U-1 disappeared in the North Sea,.....
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On Sat. 06 Apr 1940 Heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper embarking German troo.....
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On Sun. 07 Apr 1940 Hudson reconnaissance aircraft of 220 Squadron RAF.....
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On Sun. 07 Apr 1940 Settsu at anchor, Kure, Japan, 7 Apr 1940.....
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On Mon. 08 Apr 1940 Polish submarine Orzel, under British command, san.....
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On Mon. 08 Apr 1940 British destroyer HMS Glowworm discovered German N.....
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On Mon. 08 Apr 1940 German Field Marshal Keitel ordered the transfer o.....
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On Mon. 08 Apr 1940 German light cruiser Emden in the North Sea en rou.....
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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 Cruiser Köln participated in the invasion of No.....
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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 German troops crossed into Denmark at 0500 hours,.....
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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 British submarine HMS Truant torpedoed and heavily.....
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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 French submarine Sybille, under British command, d.....
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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 HMS Rodney was hit by a German aerial bomb off Kar.....
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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 HMS Howe was launched at Govan, Scotland
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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 Blücher capsized at Oslo fjord, Norway, 9 April.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 Fleet Air Arm Skua dive bombers sank the German cr.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 German submarine U-4 sank HMS Thistle at Stavanger.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 British submarine HMS Tarpon attacked a German arm.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 German submarine U-37 torpedoed Swedish motor tank.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 Henry Tizard established the Military Application.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 Nikolaus von Falkenhorst was mentioned in the Wehr.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 The Icelanic parliament, Althing, granted full pow.....
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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 At the First Battle of Narvik, 10 German destroyer.....
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On Thurs. 11 Apr 1940 British submarine HMS Spearfish damaged the German.....
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On Thurs. 11 Apr 1940 Cruiser Köln returned from Norway, arriving at.....
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On Thurs. 11 Apr 1940 In Norway, the German 196th Division moved north f.....
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On Thurs. 11 Apr 1940 British troops occupied the Faroe Islands between.....
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On Thurs. 11 Apr 1940 In a report to the War Office in London, British G.....
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On Fri. 12 Apr 1940 Norwegian artillery Major Hans Holtermann and 250.....
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On Fri. 12 Apr 1940 The British Cyprus Regiment was established from v.....
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On Fri. 12 Apr 1940 Luftflotte 5 was formed in Hamburg, Germany under.....
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On Fri. 12 Apr 1940 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Stancliffe.....
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On Fri. 12 Apr 1940 German SdKfz. 223 armored radio car in Denmark, 12.....
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On Sat. 13 Apr 1940 RAF Hampden bombers of No. 44, No. 49, No. 50, No......
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On Sat. 13 Apr 1940 Oswald Mosley's son Max Rufus Mosley was born......
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On Sat. 13 Apr 1940 At Narvik, Norway, a British naval force consisted.....
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On Sat. 13 Apr 1940 Warspite and a British destroyer during Second Bat.....
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On Sun. 14 Apr 1940 German minesweeper M6 sank British Royal Navy subm.....
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On Sun. 14 Apr 1940 350 British Royal Marines landed at Namsos, Norway.....
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On Sun. 14 Apr 1940 King Haakon of Norway appealed to his people to re.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 British unemployment figure decreased to 973,000,.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 British destroyers Fearless and Brazen sank German.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 The British 15th Brigade boarded transports in Fra.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 Vidkun Quisling was removed from power in Norway......
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 Edmund Herring departed Australia for Palestine as.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 Walter Grabmann was named the commanding officer o.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 Admiral Nishizo Tsukahara was named the commanding.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 British troops landed in the Lofoten Islands in no.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 Italian "Barfile" naval infantry battalion landed.....
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On Mon. 15 Apr 1940 Crew of an 8.8 cm FlaK gun in Denmark, 1940German.....
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On Tues. 16 Apr 1940 The ill-equipped British 24th Brigade landed at Ha.....
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On Tues. 16 Apr 1940 German submarine U-3 and British submarine HMS Por.....
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On Tues. 16 Apr 1940 Allied troops landed at the Faroe Islands, a const.....
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On Tues. 16 Apr 1940 Iceland declared independence from Denmark and ask.....
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On Wed. 17 Apr 1940 RMS Queen Mary arrived at Sydney, Australia......
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On Wed. 17 Apr 1940 Before dawn, British cruiser HMS Suffolk shelled t.....
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On Wed. 17 Apr 1940 German submarine U-13 torpedoed and sank British s.....
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On Wed. 17 Apr 1940 Italian "Grado" naval infantry battalion landed at.....
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On Thurs. 18 Apr 1940 British submarine HMS Sterlet disappeared off Norw.....
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On Thurs. 18 Apr 1940 The German submarine U-99 was commissioned with Ca.....
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On Thurs. 18 Apr 1940 The Norwegian government declared war on Germany a.....
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On Fri. 19 Apr 1940 Japan informed the United States that Japan had no.....
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On Fri. 19 Apr 1940 The first engagement between British and German tr.....
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On Fri. 19 Apr 1940 Three Neubaufahrzeug prototype heavy tanks arrived.....
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On Fri. 19 Apr 1940 Germany announced the formation of the Reich Commi.....
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On Sat. 27 Apr 1940 Lorraine departed France for Alexandria, Egypt......
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On Fri. 03 may 1940 British and French troops evacuated from
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On Sat. 04 may 1940 German He 115 aircraft bombed British submarine HM.....
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On Sat. 04 may 1940 The keel of Shinano was laid down at the Yokosuka.....
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On Sun. 05 may 1940 Norway established a government-in-exile in London.....
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On Mon. 06 may 1940 British submarine HMS Snapper attacked German arme.....
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On Mon. 06 may 1940 John Steinbeck won the Politzer Prize for his nove.....
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On Mon. 06 may 1940 Kondo at a luncheon at the Tokyo Naval Club on 6 M.....
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On Wed. 08 may 1940 Garland exited drydocks at Malta......
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On Sat. 11 may 1940 King George VI of the United Kingdom signed the pr.....
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On Sat. 11 may 1940 British troops landed on Dutch islands of Aruba an.....
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On Sat. 11 may 1940 Germany occupied Luxembourg. In Belgium, German ai.....
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On Sat. 11 may 1940 Winston Churchill named Lord Beaverbrook the head.....
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On Sun. 12 may 1940 German armored columns pushed out of the Ardennes.....
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On Sun. 12 may 1940 Winston Churchill appointed the newly created Visc.....
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On Mon. 13 may 1940 UK Prime Minister Churchill made the famous "Blood.....
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On Mon. 13 may 1940 American river gunboat Tutuila, stranded on a reef.....
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On Mon. 13 may 1940 James Lacey shot down a German He 111 bomber, a Bf.....
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On Mon. 13 may 1940 Winston Churchill appointed Leo Amery as Secretary.....
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On Mon. 13 may 1940 Searaven making full speed while running trials of.....
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On Tues. 14 may 1940 Anthony Eden, UK Secretary of State for War, calle.....
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On Tues. 14 may 1940 Werner Mölders was shot down over Sedan, France.....
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On Wed. 15 may 1940 The Netherlands surrendered to Germany at 1015 hou.....
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On Wed. 15 may 1940 Winston Churchill sent a message to Franklin Roose.....
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On Wed. 15 may 1940 US Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson reported to.....
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On Wed. 15 may 1940 Paul von Kleist was awarded the Knight's Cross of.....
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On Wed. 15 may 1940 The fast food chain McDonalds opened its first res.....
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On Thurs. 16 may 1940 German 6th Army broke through the Dyle Line; Briti.....
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On Thurs. 16 may 1940 French Prime Minister Reynaud ordered Maxime Weyga.....
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On Thurs. 16 may 1940 Remy Van Lierde was shot down while flying a recon.....
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On Thurs. 16 may 1940 US President Roosevelt requested the US Congress t.....
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On Thurs. 16 may 1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to P.....
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On Thurs. 16 may 1940 Scuttled French Char B1 heavy tank in Beaumont, Be.....
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On Fri. 17 may 1940 HMS Effingham departed Harstad, Norway with 1,020.....
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On Fri. 17 may 1940 Erwin Rommel was awarded the 1939 clasp to his Iro.....
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On Sun. 19 may 1940 French Army General Maxime Weygand replaced Genera.....
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On Sun. 19 may 1940 German General Guderian resumed his attack, captur.....
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On Sun. 19 may 1940 German submarine U-37 sank Swedish merchant vessel.....
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On Sun. 19 may 1940 Destroyed Belgian A.C.G.1 tank, Antwerp, Belgium,.....
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On Mon. 20 may 1940 British Foreign Secretary Halifax contacted Swedis.....
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On Mon. 20 may 1940 The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano began to.....
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On Tues. 21 may 1940 Orion rounded Cape Horn and entered the South Paci.....
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On Tues. 21 may 1940 German General Rommel bypassed Arras, France and a.....
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On Tues. 21 may 1940 The British government announced that over 250,000.....
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On Tues. 21 may 1940 Erwin Rommel was awarded the 1939 clasp to his Iro.....
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On Tues. 21 may 1940 In Paris, France, General Robert Altmayer, a retir.....
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On Tues. 21 may 1940 Map noting German advances in France and the Low C.....
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On Wed. 22 may 1940 In Northern France, Rommel held his ground at Arra.....
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On Wed. 22 may 1940 The United Kingdom passed the Emergency Powers (De.....
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On Wed. 22 may 1940 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China......
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On Wed. 22 may 1940 French Air Force withdrew Potez 630 heavy fighters.....
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On Wed. 22 may 1940 General Gaston Billote died from injuried sustaine.....
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On Wed. 22 may 1940 German pilot Hauptmann Wolfgang Falck was ordered.....
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On Wed. 22 may 1940 Cryptologist in Bletchley Park, England broke the.....
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On Thurs. 23 may 1940 Submarine Marlin was laid down at the Portsmouth N.....
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On Thurs. 23 may 1940 German submarine U-9 torpedoed and sank captured (.....
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On Thurs. 23 may 1940 The German 6th Army crossed the Scheldt River in B.....
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On Thurs. 23 may 1940 Arrests began for British fascists across the Unit.....
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On Thurs. 23 may 1940 Oswald Mosley and 747 other British Union members.....
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On Fri. 24 may 1940 German submarine U-37 sank Greek ship Kyma 200 mil.....
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On Fri. 24 may 1940 German aircraft sank British destroyer Wessex off.....
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On Fri. 24 may 1940 King Leopold III assumed command of the Belgian Ar.....
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On Fri. 24 may 1940 German troops captured Ghent and Tournai, Belgium.....
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On Fri. 24 may 1940 Walter Grabmann was liberated by German troops in.....
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On Sat. 25 may 1940 Captain Richard F. J. Onslow was named the command.....
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On Sat. 25 may 1940 British trade union executives accepted Aneurin Be.....
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On Sat. 25 may 1940 The first transport of prisoners arrived at the Ma.....
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On Sat. 25 may 1940 Crown Prince Yi Un was made the commanding officer.....
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On Sat. 25 may 1940 Adolf Hitler continued to hold off his tanks from.....
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On Sat. 25 may 1940 A unit of the newly formed US Marine Corps Defense.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 HMS Eagle arrived in the Mediterranean Sea......
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 In Britain, Empire Day was declared as a national.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 German Ju 88 aircraft attacked and sank British an.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 German submarines U-13 departed Kiel, Germany......
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 German submarines U-48 departed Kiel, Germany......
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 US Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson, in a teleg.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 36 Japanese G3M2 Model 21 bombers, plus bombers of.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 At Dunkerque, France, British Expeditionary Force.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 General Maxime Weygand issued his Ordre G_n_ral d'.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 Benito Mussolini informed the Chief of Supreme Sta.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 In the United Kingdom, General Sir John Dill becam.....
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On Sun. 26 may 1940 British Cruiser Mk IV tank at Huppy, France, 26-29.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 The British sugar ration was reduced from 12 ounce.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 The British government abandoned the notion to int.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 Troops of the German 3rd SS Panzer Totenkopf Divis.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Sheaf Mead.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 Erwin Rommel was awarded the Knight Cross medal......
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 Werner Mölders claimed his 19th and 20th victor.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 British General Edmund Ironside stepped down from.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 James Lacey shot down two German He 111 bombers......
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 King Leopold III of Belgium offered surrender term.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China in thre.....
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On Mon. 27 may 1940 Posted notices in Calais, France just before Germa.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 American ambassador to France, William Bullitt, se.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 German submarine U-37 sank French liner Brazza 100.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 The National Defense Advisory Committee was establ.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 King Leopold III of Belgium officially surrendered.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China in mult.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 In France, 11,874 Allied personnel were evacuated.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 Allied forces consisted of British, French, Norweg.....
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On Tues. 28 may 1940 French soldiers firing 75mm cannon against German.....
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On Wed. 29 may 1940 Allies evacuated 33,558 men from the harbor at Dun.....
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On Wed. 29 may 1940 German torpedo boat S-30 sank British destroyer HM.....
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On Wed. 29 may 1940 German submarine U-37 sank French steamer Marie Jo.....
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On Wed. 29 may 1940 Werner Mölders was awarded the Knight's Cross o.....
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On Wed. 29 may 1940 No. 264 Squadron RAF based at Manston, England, Un.....
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On Wed. 29 may 1940 Friedrich Christiansen became the commanding offic.....
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On Wed. 29 may 1940 British troops in a ship off of Dunkirk, France, l.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 The British Admiralty ordered all modern destroyer.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 Allied troops began pushing German troops from the.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Stanhall.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 President Roosevelt rejected a request from US Amb.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 US Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson reported to.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 Benito Mussolini advised Adolf Hitler that Italy w.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 The keel of unnamed transport ship No. 74 was laid.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 Operation Fish: British battleship HMS Revenge, tr.....
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On Thurs. 30 may 1940 Allied troops aboard the ship Guinean after being.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 US Ambassador to Argentina Norman Armour and US Mi.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 British sloop HMS Weston sank German submarine U-1.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 German submarine U-101 attacked Allied convoy HG-3.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 No. 829 Squadron FAA took their newly issued Faire.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 Poor weather clouded over Dunkerque, France, givin.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 UK Prime Minister Churchill traveled to Paris, Fra.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 US-built DB-7 medium bombers of the French Air For.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 Oliver Leese was evacuated from a beach near Dunke.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 The US Marine Corps 14th Naval District dispatched.....
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On Fri. 31 may 1940 Aerial view of the destruction at Rotterdam, circa.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 Overnight, British troops pulled out of the defens.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 British unemployment figure decreased by 92,000 in.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 The wreck of British trawler HMS Warwickshire, sun.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 German submarine U-37 sank Greek ship Ioanna 120 m.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 US freighter Charles R. McCormick departed Bergen,.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 Douglas Bader achieved his first kill, which was a.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 Slovakia established diplomatic relationship with.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 French industrial targets in the Rh
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 British troops at Narvik, Norway began evacuating.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 Signposts were taken down throughout Britain to pr.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 Battleship Washington was launched at the Philadel.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 A unit of the newly formed US Marine Corps Defense.....
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On Sat. 01 Jun 1940 Destruction in the waterfront area of Calais, Fran.....
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On Sun. 02 Jun 1940 Due to costly air attacks, British Admiralty decid.....
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On Sun. 02 Jun 1940 The Allies dispatched Polish and French troops to.....
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On Sun. 02 Jun 1940 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Polycarp.....
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On Sun. 02 Jun 1940 German submarine U-58 sank British coastal defense.....
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On Sun. 02 Jun 1940 In Norway, New Zealand Pilot Officer Louis Jacobse.....
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On Sun. 02 Jun 1940 US ship President Roosevelt departed Galway, Irela.....
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On Sun. 02 Jun 1940 US passenger liner Manhattan departed Genoa, Italy.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 After nightfall, the Allies began to evacuate Narv.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 The last group of British troops at Dunkirk, Franc.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 The British government banned aliens and stateless.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 French armed merchant cruiser Ville D'Oran, with 2.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 German submarine U-37 sank Finnish ship Snabb with.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 The Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross of the Iron Cr.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 Roberts Dunstan enlisted in the Second Australian.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 Luftwaffe bombed Paris, France, killing 254 civili.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 Soviet troops began the preparation for the invasi.....
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On Mon. 03 Jun 1940 Winston Churchill ordered the formation of command.....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 German Admiral Wilhelm Marschall launched Operatio.....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 Overnight, 26,175 French troops were evacuated fro.....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 Churchill delivered the "We shall never surrender".....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 The United Kingdom banned any recreational camping.....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 Konstantin Rokossovsky was promoted to the rank of.....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 Douglas Bader, while attacking a German Do 17 airc.....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 In order to maintain the vital link with North Ame.....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 French l'Armee d'Aire attacked München (Munich).....
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On Tues. 04 Jun 1940 Burning railway car at the rail station in Calais,.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 Germany began the second phase of the invasion of.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 French General de Gaulle was appointed the Underse.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 Small groups of mobile armed men called Ironsides,.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 4,900 Allied troops boarded transport ships at Nar.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 German submarine U-48 shelled and sank British arm.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 Werner Mölders was shot down by French pilot Re.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 In a BBC radio broadcast the noted author J. B. Pr.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered US Navy Ch.....
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On Wed. 05 Jun 1940 German military camera crew filming in Dunkirk, Fr.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 German 5th and 7th Panzer Divisions bypassed the s.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 All Austrian and German citizens in the United Kin.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 The British government banned the manufacture of a.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 German submarine U-46 sank the British armed merch.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 5,100 Allied personnel were transported to troop t.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 German submarine U-46 torpedoed British armed merc.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 Adolf Galland was appointed Gruppenkommandeur III/.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler arrived at the Wolfsschlucht headquar.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 Japanese Army aircraft attacked Baishi Yi airfield.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 The Kremlin issued an ultimatum to Latvia, demandi.....
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On Thurs. 06 Jun 1940 Soldiers of Japanese 13th Division crossing a trib.....
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On Fri. 07 Jun 1940 French armed merchant cruiser Ville D'Oran arrived.....
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On Fri. 07 Jun 1940 Rommel's troops marched down the French coast towa.....
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On Fri. 07 Jun 1940 Between midnight and 0330 hours, at about 10 miles.....
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On Fri. 07 Jun 1940 The French Air Force bombed Berlin, Germany.....
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On Fri. 07 Jun 1940 King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav, and.....
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On Fri. 07 Jun 1940 The troop transports of British Group II arrived a.....
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On Sat. 08 Jun 1940 During Operation Juno, German cruiser Admiral Hipp.....
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On Sat. 08 Jun 1940 French and Polish troops left dummies on the front.....
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On Sat. 08 Jun 1940 German 5th and 7th Panzer Divisions crossed the Se.....
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On Sat. 08 Jun 1940 Captain Guy D'Oyly Huges of HMS Glorious failed to.....
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On Sat. 08 Jun 1940 Scharnhorst firing her forward guns against HMS Gl.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 American cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers USS.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 The Norwegian 6th Division, essentially the last N.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 British hospital ship Atlantis made rendezvous wit.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 German submarine U-46 sank Finnish ship Margareta.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS Dickerson departed Casablanca, Frenc.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 The German 7th Panzer Division under Rommel pushed.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 James Lacey was forced to crash land into a swamp.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 The Soviet Union issued the order for its military.....
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On Sun. 09 Jun 1940 British Cruiser Mk IV tank on the back of a Scamme.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS O'Brien arrived at Bahia, Brazil dur.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 American cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers USS.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Norway surrendered to Germany.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdo.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 German aircraft attacked and sank British armed bo.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 British transport ships of Group I reached Clyde,.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Franklin Roosevelt gave a speech at the graduation.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Canada declared war on Italy......
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China at 1300.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Liu Zhesheng, flying an I-15bis fighter, together.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 The Gestapo organization took control of the There.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Erwin Rommel's troops continued to march down the.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 Rear Admiral David M. LeBreton relieved Rear Admir.....
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On Mon. 10 Jun 1940 US passenger liner Washington arrived at Lisbon, P.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 German 7th Panzer Division under Rommel captured L.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 British law dictated that all British citizens who.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 RAF aircraft attacked German vessels at Trondheim,.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 Armored cars of the British 11th Hussars crossed i.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 Norwegian trawler Borgund rescued 37 survivors of.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 German submarines U-48 and U-101 sank Greek ships.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa declared.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 Due to the Italian entry into the European War, US.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill sent a telegram t.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 US passenger liner Washington, en route from Lisbo.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 The first Hurricane Mk II prototype aircraft, actu.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 Luftwaffe bombers attacked Paris, France.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 RAF aircraft bombed Turin and Genoa in Italy.....
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On Tues. 11 Jun 1940 Ten Italian Z.1007 Alcione bombers attacked Grand.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 USS Quincy arrived at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil......
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 British transports of Group II arrived in the Clyd.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 The Commander-in-Chief of Home Defense of the Unit.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Earlspark.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 The Navy Department of the United States placed co.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 The Japan-Thailand Non-Aggression Pact was announc.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 The Soviet Baltic Fleet received orders to blockad.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was awarded the Iron C.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 154 Japanese aircraft attacked Chongqing, China at.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 Liu Zhesheng, flying an I-15bis fighter, damaged t.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 German tanks under Guderian crossed the Marne Rive.....
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On Wed. 12 Jun 1940 French Admiral Fran
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 At dawn, 0243 hours, 15 British Fleet Air Arm Skua.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 British submarine HMS Odin attacked Italian cruise.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 German submarine U-25 sank British armed merchant.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Rear Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. relieved Vice.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of vice ad.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Maxime Weygand declared Paris, France an open city.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Soviet troops began amassing on the borders of Lat.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 The battleship USS North Carolina was launched at.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 The American armed vessel Eastern Prince, first of.....
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On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Launching of North Carolina, New York Navy Yard, B.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS O'Brien departed Bahia, Brazil......
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 German submarine U-47 sank British ship Balmoralwo.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 At dawn, 4 French cruisers and 11 destroyers shell.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 German submarine U-101 stopped Greek ship Antonis.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 German submarine U-38 sank Greek ship Mount Myrto.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 US President Roosevelt signed the Naval Expansion.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 British Fleet Air Arm Swordfish aircraft from "a t.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 The Soviet Union presented an ultimatum to Lithuan.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 In France, German troops captured the open city of.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 Foch bombarded Vado, Italy......
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 Cruiser Dupleix, as a part of the French 3rd Squad.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 Colbert bombarded Genoa, Italy as a part of Operat.....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 The giant French Farman F.220 bomber "Jules Verne".....
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On Fri. 14 Jun 1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tar.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt approved a revised.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 German submarine U-38 attacked Allied convoy HX-47.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 Quintin Brand was appointed the commanding officer.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill sent a telegram t.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 Submarine tender USS Bushnell completed hydrograph.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 Construction began on the new Führer Headquarte.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 The German 7th Army under General Friedrich Dollma.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 US passenger liner Washington embarked an addition.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 Soviet troops engaged Latvian border guards at Mas.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 Soviet troops began the occupation of Lithuania; t.....
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On Sat. 15 Jun 1940 USS Helena at anchor, President Roads, Boston, Mas.....
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 Marshal Philippe P_tain became Prime Minister of F.....
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 German submarine U-101 sank British merchant ship.....
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 The Curie Laboratory in France transferred 410 pou.....
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 The Soviet invasion of Latvia and Estonia began......
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 Fran
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 114 Japanese aircraft attacked Chongqing, China af.....
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 Germans broke through to Dijon and reach Besancon.....
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 57,000 more British troops withdrew from France vi.....
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On Sun. 16 Jun 1940 Major General Erwin Rommel having captured the por.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 Heavy cruiser USS Quincy departed Rio de Janeiro,.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 Soviet troops entered Latvia and Lithuania without.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 Winston Churchill announced to the British people.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 British unemployment figure decreased by 114,000 i.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 German submarine U-46 sank Greek ship Elpis 250 mi.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 French Minister for Foreign Affairs Paul Baudouin.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 US Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Sta.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 The deposed German Emperor Wilhelm II sent a congr.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sent Ge.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 Prime Minister Philippe P_tain ordered the French.....
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On Mon. 17 Jun 1940 Civilian contractors began working on the expansio.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 The German 7th Panzer Division under Rommel advanc.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 Sweden allowed passage of German troops between Os.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 Charles de Gaulle made the "Appeal of June 18" spe.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 In Brest, French cruisers El Djezair, El Kantara,.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 German submarine U-28 sank Finnish ship Sarmatia s.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 German submarine U-32 sank Spanish trawler S
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 US Secretary of State Cordell Hull directed Deputy.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 US Minister in Uruguay Edwin C. Wilson reported th.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Munich, G.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made the.....
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On Tues. 18 Jun 1940 The British War Office placed an order for 300 Can.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 Orion captured Norwegian ship Tropic Sea......
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 Households in the United Kingdom received pamphlet.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 French ships sought refuge in British ports......
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 The British Jockey Club announced that horse racin.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 Troops of the German 7th Panzer Division under Rom.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 British destroyer HMS Kandahar and anti-submarine.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 Lord Beaverbrook, the Minster of Aircraft Producti.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 James Lacey was relocated to the island of Jersey.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 Oberleutnant Joachim von Arnim, of Kampfeschwader.....
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On Wed. 19 Jun 1940 French refugees on a road near Gien, France, 19 Ju.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 German battlecruiser Gneisenau and heavy cruiser A.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 German battlecruiser Gneisenau and heavy cruiser A.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 USS Quincy reached Montevideo, Uruguay, as part of.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS O'Brien reached Buenos Aires, Argent.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Light cruiser Voroshilov was commissioned into ser.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Although the French had already reached out to Rom.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 The British Parliament met in a secret joint sessi.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Five weeks after the German conquest of the Nether.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 German submarines U-30, U-38, U-48, and U-122 each.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Bureau of Ships was established in the United Stat.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Vichy France opened northern Indochina to Japanese.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Robert von Greim was mentioned in the Wehrmachtber.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Light cruiser USS Phoenix departed Lahaina, Maui,.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 After sundown and into the next date, Lorraine bom.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS Herbert departed Lisbon, Portugal fo.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 Lavrentiy Beria sent Joseph Stalin a list containi.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 American cruiser USS Vincennes and destroyers USS.....
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On Thurs. 20 Jun 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt nominated two well.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 French cruisers El Djezair, El Kantara, El Mansour.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 German submarine U-28 sank British decoy ship HMS.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 An German Ar 196 aircraft from battlecruiser Schar.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 The Estonian Independent Signal Battalion engaged.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler to discuss the.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 Heavy cruiser USS Wichita, with Commander Cruiser.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of No.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 French and German representatives met to negotiate.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS Herbert arrived at Casablanca, Frenc.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 As the British evacuated from Guernsey, the contro.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey James Murray Robert.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS Dickerson departed Lisbon, Portugal.....
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On Fri. 21 Jun 1940 Carrier Graf Zeppelin under construction, Kiel, Ge.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 German submarines sank two cargo ships and two tan.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 German submarine U-122 became missing in the Atlan.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 The US Congress adopted national defense tax measu.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 Duguay-Trouin was interned by the British at Alexa.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 At Compi
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 Yosuke Matsuoka was named the Minister of Foreign.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS Dickerson arrived at Bilbao, Spain t.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 In Britain, the second evacuation plan by the Lond.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 Charles de Gaulle broadcast a speech from London,.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 British Foreign Secretary Halifax had his undersec.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 The Communist Party of Great Britain published a m.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 Noor Inayat Khan arrived at Falmouth, Cornwall, En.....
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On Sat. 22 Jun 1940 L to R: Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, He.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 Battleship Bismarck entered floating drydock No. V.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 Using information from Italian submarine Galileo G.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 French Army Commander-in-Chief General Maxime Weyg.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 German submarine U-99, damaged on 21 Jun by German.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 The German ambassador in Spain noted that the Duke.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sent Ge.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 The British Long Range Desert Patrol (later to bec.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler arrived in Paris, France and did some.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS Herbert departed Casablanca, French.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 Portuguese police arrested American 30 sailors of.....
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On Sun. 23 Jun 1940 Erwin Rommel in the Paris, France victory parade,.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 German submarine U-47 sank Panamanian ship Cathrin.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 British commandos launched an aborted raid on Le T.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 As French warships scattered throughout Dakar, Cas.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 British sloop HMS Falmouth sank Italian submarine.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 Japan requested Britain to close the Burma Road, a.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 Robert von Greim was awarded the Knight's Cross of.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 The Franco-Italian armistice was signed at Villa O.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 Malta received its first strike aircraft with the.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 Charles Edison resigned as the Secretary of the Na.....
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On Mon. 24 Jun 1940 Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely relieved Rear Admi.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS O'Brien departed Buenos Aires, Argen.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 An act by the United States Congress abolished the.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 The Franco-German Armistice, signed on 22 Jun, too.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 German submarine U-51 attacked Allied convoy OA-17.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Canadian destroyers HMCS Fraser and HMCS Restigouc.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 British Minister of Health Malcolm MacDonald retur.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 The Franco-German armistice became effective, offi.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Lord Gort departed Britain by flying boat for Raba.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Isolationist advertising appeared in the American.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Working together with the Germans, Spain agreed to.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Pierre Fran
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 After the Germans made the French surrender at Com.....
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Wolfgang Falck arrived at Düsseldorf, Germany......
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On Tues. 25 Jun 1940 Map detailing the German and Italian advances in F.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 Corvette Trillium was launched......
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 RMS Queen Mary, with 5,000 British troops aboard,.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 General de Gaulle created the French Volunteer Leg.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 The United Kingdom extended the blockade to includ.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 Norwegian merchant ship Crux was sunk 300 miles we.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 German submarine U-29 stopped Greek ship Dimitris.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 Soviet Union presented an ultimatum demanding terr.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 The French Foreign Minister of the Bordeaux Govern.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 Wolfgang Falck was officially named the commanding.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, Rus.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 After sundown, German aircraft bombed the steelwor.....
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On Wed. 26 Jun 1940 Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, Un.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 The escaping French battleship Jean Bart, which ha.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS O'Brien arrived at Rio Grande du Sol.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 German submarine U-47 shelled Norwegian merchant s.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 German forces reached the Franco-Spanish border.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 Romania ceded Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 US President Roosevelt declared a national emergen.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 Heavy cruiser USS Wichita, with Commander Cruiser.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 Despite Admiral Darlan's previous assurances that.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 The keel for battleship Iowa was laid down at the.....
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On Thurs. 27 Jun 1940 Submarine Gar under construction, Groton, Connecti.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 Soviet Union occupied Bessarabia and the Northern.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 General Charles de Gaulle was recognized by the Un.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 Pope Pius XII offered to be a mediator for the war.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 British Blenheim bomber attacked Tobruk in North A.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 German submarine U-30 sank British ship Llanarth 2.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 British trawler Castleton became missing in the Or.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 Stafford Cripps was appointed the British Ambassad.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 The British Channel Islands were partially evacuat.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 Douglas Bader was named the commanding officer of.....
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On Fri. 28 Jun 1940 Refugees lining up outside a support center for re.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 HMS Hermes received orders to set sail toward Daka.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 Destroyer USS O'Brien departed Rio Grande du Sol,.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 German submarine U-47 torpedoed and sank British s.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 Operation Catapult: The British Admiralty gave Vic.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 German submarine U-99 was again subjected to frien.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 German submarine U-51 sank British decoy ship HMS.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 German submarine U-26 sank Greek steamer Frangoula.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 Adolf Hitler arrived at his headquarters at Tannen.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 Maximilian von Weichs was awarded the Knight's Cro.....
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On Sat. 29 Jun 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt departed Washingto.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 German submarine U-47 sank Greek ship Georgios Kyr.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 German submarine U-65 and U-43 attacked Allied con.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 As of this date, the US Navy reported the strength.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 Heavy cruiser USS Wichita, with Commander Cruiser.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 Alfred Jodl noted in his diary that the United Kin.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 German submarine U-26 sank Estonian ship Merkur (k.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 After repeated attacks, by Stuka aircraft and rail.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 Three German personnel landed on the island of Gue.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 A German reconnaissance aircraft landed on Guernse.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 Submarine S-7 was commissioned into service......
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt returned to Washin.....
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On Sun. 30 Jun 1940 Battleship North Carolina off New York Navy Yard,.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Destroyer USS O'Brien arrived at Santos, Brazil......
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 German forces took Jersey, completing the occupati.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Marshal Philippe P_tain's government moved to from.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Germany requested neutral nations to withdraw thei.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 By this date, about 900,000 tons of Allied shippin.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 British milk price ceiling was increased to 4 penc.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Operation Seelöwe (Sealion), a plan for the inv.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 German submarines attacked various Allied ships of.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Joseph Stalin told his Ambassador to Tokyo that th.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 British RAF Fighter Command chief Hugh Dowding's s.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Quintin Brand was promoted to the temporary rank o.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 The responsibility for nuclear fission research in.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Rodolfo Graziani was named the Governor-General of.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 The US Navy issued contracts for the construction.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 US Navy awarded a US$30,870,000 contract to build.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Albrecht Lanz was declared the military governor o.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 US Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt met wit.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 German troops landed on the island of Guernsey off.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 German troops landed on the island of Jersey off t.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 King Carol II of Romania renounced the guarantees.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 British liner Arandora Star departed Liverpool, En.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 The Free French government-in-exile established it.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 Winston Churchill recorded in his diary that durin.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 The Headquarters Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marin.....
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On Mon. 01 Jul 1940 The noted American aviator James H. "Jimmy" Doolit.....
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On Tues. 02 Jul 1940 The British government canceled the Aug 1940 bank.....
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On Tues. 02 Jul 1940 The US Congress passed the Export Control Act, giv.....
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On Tues. 02 Jul 1940 German submarine U-47 sank the British liner Arand.....
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On Tues. 02 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered the planning to begin for Ope.....
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On Tues. 02 Jul 1940 German troops traveled from Guernsey to the island.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 USS Tautog was commissioned into service......
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed Montevideo, Ur.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 USS O'Brien departed Santos, Brazil, for Par
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 Due to such heavy losses from the Luftwaffe the Br.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 Battle of Mers-el-K_bir: At 0545 hours, Vice Admir.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 General Franz Halder, the German Army Chief of Sta.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 At dawn, the British Royal Navy boarded two French.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 Upon hearing the news of British attacks on French.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 German Luftwaffe aircraft bombed Cardiff, Wales, U.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 The British founded the Long Range Desert Group un.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 British Navy Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Cunnigham dem.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 USS Phoenix arrived at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone......
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 Destroyer USS Dickerson departed Bilbao, Spain......
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 USS Dickerson departed Bilbao, Spain, for Lisbon,.....
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On Wed. 03 Jul 1940 French battleship Strasbourg under attack at Mers-.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Despite having his left leg shattered by a bomb bl.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Pandora sank French gunboat.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Italians forces captured a number of British forts.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Kanalkampf: German Stuka dive bombers and motored.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China in mult.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 French battleship Strasbourg and four destroyers a.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Marseillaise arrived at Toulon, France Facility.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Vichy French government broke off all relations wi.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 The French Navy ordered submarines, armed merchant.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 French bombers attacked the British fleet at Gibra.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 The Dame of Sark, ruler of the island of Sark in t.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Sark in the Channel Islands, having been occupied.....
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Italian bombers again raided Malta......
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On Thurs. 04 Jul 1940 Winston Churchill received his first standing ovat.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 Nine British Royal Navy Swordfish aircraft of 813.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 USS Wichita and USS Quincy arrived in Rio Grande d.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 Romania announced that it had joined the Axis Powe.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 RAF launched night bombing raids on Kiel and Wilhe.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 The United States banned the trade of strategic ma.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 sank British destroyer Whirl.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 German auxiliary minesweepers M1803 (trawler Spitz.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 Vichy France broke off diplomatic relations with t.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 US President Roosevelt used the power given by the.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 Hitler presented the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cr.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler departed from his headquarters at Tan.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 USS Phoenix departed Balboa, Panama Canal Zone for.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 USS Omaha relieved USS Trenton as Rear Admiral Dav.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 Operation Fish: British battleship HMS Revenge, cr.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 In Britain, the south coast of England for twenty.....
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On Fri. 05 Jul 1940 Admiral James O. Richardson arrived in Washington.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 The first German U-boat base in France was opened.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 German aircraft and minesweepers sank four British.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 Operation Lever: British Royal Navy Force H under.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 British cruisers HMS Capetown and HMS Caledon and.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Shark, damaged by attacks fr.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 German radio stations played the song "Denn wir fa.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 sank Estonian collier Vapper.....
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On Sat. 06 Jul 1940 Ordnance QF 4.5 inch Howitzer and its New Zealand.....
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 Italy granted France permission to keep her Medite.....
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 Kanalkampf: Six British fighters were shot down du.....
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Sea Glory.....
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 Ren_-
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 After dark, a boat from HMS Hermes attempted to dr.....
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 Operation Catapult: British Swordfish torpedo bomb.....
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS H43 landed Lieutenant Hubert.....
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On Sun. 07 Jul 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt informed the US Co.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 British bombers attacked German heavy cruiser Luuu.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed Santos, Brazil.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 USS Phoenix departed Valparaiso, Chile for Callao,.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 Expanding on their previous agreement, Sweden allo.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 British Metropolitan Police was ordered to be arme.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Humber Arm.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 Italian submarine Marconi torpedoed and damaged de.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 The British RAF Fighter Command established the 10.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 The US Joint War Planning Committee completed a pl.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 At Casablanca, French Morocco, British motor torpe.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 British Swordfish torpedo bombers from carrier HMS.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 Tea went on ration in Britain at two ounces per pe.....
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On Mon. 08 Jul 1940 In England, United Kingdom, General Charles de Gau.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 During the night, 11 British Hampden aircraft (out.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 USS O'Brien arrived at Par
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 RAF considered this date the official start of the.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Salmon was lost 60 miles off.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 The German raider Komet left Bergen, Norway for op.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 British government implemented rationing on tea: e.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 British House of Commons passed a
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 German Luftwaffe aircraft attacked shipping in the.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 German Nachtjagdgeshchwader 1 wing scored its firs.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 sank Estonian ship Tiiu sout.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 Battle of Calabria: At 1515 hours, 50 miles south.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 HMS Dianthus was launched at Leith, Scotland, Unit.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 Douglas Bader's No. 242 Squadron RAF, based at RAF.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 King George VI made a royal visit to RAF Digby dur.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 Flying Officer Guy Gibson, who would later win the.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 US Coast Guard cutter Campbell arrived at Boston,.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 US Marine Corps Captain Kenneth W. Benner was orde.....
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On Tues. 09 Jul 1940 Zara firing during the Battle of Calabria, 9 Jul 1.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 Italian submarine Scir
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 The Japanese deployed the new A6M Zero fighters ag.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 The British government banned the fascist British.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 The British authorities put 200 Italian prisoners.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Widder sank British.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 sank Finnish ship Petsamo cl.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 Henry Stimson became the United States Secretary o.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 HMS Hermes collided with armed merchant cruiser HM.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 Kanalkampf: A large German aerial formation attack.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 British Lieutenant Hubert Nicolle, who had been co.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 Nine British Swordfish torpedo bombers from carrie.....
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On Wed. 10 Jul 1940 2-pounder anti-aircraft gun aboard HMCS Assiniboin.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed Rio Grande du.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Marshal Philippe P_tain declared himself head of s.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 British Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beav.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank Britis.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 sank Norwegian ship Janna 10.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Italian submarine Tarantini sank Panamanian tanker.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 US Army approached 135 American automotive manufac.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Bernard Montgomery was made a Companion of the Ord.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Frank Knox took office as the US Secretary of the.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Captain Laurence Wild relieved Captain Edward W. H.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler at Obersalzberg.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Joachim von Ribbentrop requested Spain to assist i.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft of.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Richard Saul was Mentioned in Despatches......
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Richard O'Connor was made a Companion of the Order.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 Pierre Laval became the 120th Prime Minister of Fr.....
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On Thurs. 11 Jul 1940 German aircraft attacked the British Royal Navy Ba.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 USS O'Brien departed Par
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 USS Phoenix arrived at Valparaiso, Chile on a miss.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 The Turkish Prime Minister stated that Turkey inte.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 German submarine U-56 attacked British transport s.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 Operation Fish: British ships arrived at Halifax,.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong ordered his tr.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was made a Grand Offici.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian bombers attacked.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 Graf Zeppelin was towed to Gotenhafen, Germany (no.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 US passenger liner Manhattan departed Lisbon, Port.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 German He 111 and Do 17 bombers attacked Allied co.....
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On Fri. 12 Jul 1940 Aerial view of Ewa Field, Oahu, Hawaii, Jul 12, 19.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 While under heavy attack by Axis aircraft, Sea Gla.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 USS Wichita and USS Quincy (CA-39) arrived at Sant.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 Kanalkampf: German bombers attacked Allied Convoy.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 German raider Atlantis sank British steamer Kemmen.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 German raider Widder sank British ship King John 2.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed Par
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 The British Army's new parachute force began train.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler met with top German military leaders.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov leaked.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 Kichisaburo Nomura was awarded the Grand Cordon of.....
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On Sat. 13 Jul 1940 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California,.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 Battleship Bismarck departed the drydock after com.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 German aircraft attacked the Allied convoys in the.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 Vichy French bombers attacked Gibraltar, causing n.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 British RAF Bomber Command launched raids against.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Thor sank British sh.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 German submarine U-A sank Norwegian tanker Sarita.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 German submarine U-52 sank Greek ship Thetis A. of.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 The British commando raid on Guernsey was met with.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 Free French leader Charles de Gaulle celebrated Ba.....
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On Sun. 14 Jul 1940 British armed merchant cruiser HMS Esperance Bay d.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Richelieu was commissioned into service......
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Captain Shutoku Miyazato was relieved as the comma.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Italians captured British territories in Kenya......
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Unemployment figure in Britain increased by 60,431.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The British Home Office banned fireworks, flying k.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 sank Greek ship Evdoxia 40 m.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The YO-49 Vigilant prototype aircraft took its fir.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The rector of Old Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, Engla.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Corvette HMS Godetia was commissioned into service.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The keel of British corvette Mignonette was laid d.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The keel of British destroyer HMS Panther was laid.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Germany demanded unrestricted access through Frenc.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 German submarine U-108 was launched......
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The Soviet Union announced that recently held pleb.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 German aircraft bombed and sank Estonian ship Meri.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Operation Ambassador: Destroyers HMS Scimitar and.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Erich Mu
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 USS Trenton departed Lisbon, Portugal with members.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Hampden bombers from RAF Hemswell in England, Unit.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Low cloud and rain kept most aircraft grounded, bu.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The United States Marine Corps established the Mar.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 The US 2nd Armored Division was formed at Fort Ben.....
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On Mon. 15 Jul 1940 Midshipmen and sailors boarding a 50-foot motor la.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Vichy France revoked the French citizenship of nat.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler issued Führer Directive 16 for the.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Phoenix attacked Italian tor.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Thor sank British sh.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 German submarine U-61 torpedoed British tanker Sco.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Vichy France de-naturalized its Jewish citizens......
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 British destroyer Whaddon was launched......
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 The keel of British destroyer Dulverton was laid d.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 The keel of British submarine Saracen was laid dow.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Hugh Dalton was appointed the political chief of t.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Italian bombers attacked the British base at Haifa.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 British and Australian warships bombarded Bardia,.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Spanish agents met with the Duke of Windsor, the f.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 54 Japanese aircraft based in Wuhan, Hubei Provinc.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Liu Zhesheng shot down two Japanese aircraft......
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 British destroyer HMS Imogen collided with cruiser.....
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On Tues. 16 Jul 1940 Low cloud, fog, and heavy rain kept German aircraf.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 The United Kingdom announced that the Burma Road w.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 Italian bombers sank Finnish ship Wiiri 30 miles o.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 Admiral of the Fleet Roger Keyes became the first.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 After sundown, British bombers attacked Caen, Fran.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 British mooring vessel HMS Steady struck a mine an.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 The keel of British destroyer Beaufort was laid do.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 The German Luftwaffe placed Colonel Josef Kammhube.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 Destroyer USS Plunkett was commissioned into servi.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 The German OKW assigned forces for the invasion of.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 Lieutenant Colonel Dunford-Slater, Second Lieutena.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 sank Greek ship Naftilos sou.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 German bombers attacked Bristol in western England.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 Admiral James O. Richardson concluded the conferen.....
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On Wed. 17 Jul 1940 Fumimaro Konoe at a press conference at the Peerag.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 HMS Cumberland departed Simonstown, near Cape Town.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Woodbury 1.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 Adolf Galland was promoted to Major.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 British bombers attacked the Dortmund-Ems Canal in.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 British destroyer Cotswold was launched......
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 British minesweeper Polruan was launched......
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 German began broadcasting propaganda through Radio.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 German submarine U-95 was launched......
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille completed flight training a.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 Canadian corvette Wetaskiwin was launched in North.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 The Canadian Navy placed an order for 12 motor tor.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 French aircraft bombed Gibraltar in retaliation fo.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 15 Spitfire fighters of No. 152 and No. 610 Squadr.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 The United Kingdom recognized the Czechoslovakian.....
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On Thurs. 18 Jul 1940 Franklin Roosevelt received an almost unanimous in.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy arrived at Rio.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 The Two-Ocean Navy Act was passed by the US Congre.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 British General Alan Brooke took over as Commander.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Günther von Kluge was promoted to the rank of F.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Hermann Hoth was promoted to the rank of general......
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Hermann Göring was promoted to the rank of Reic.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Battle of Cape Spada: British destroyers HMS Hyper.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 German submarine U-62 sank a British ship 30 miles.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Thor sank Dutch ship.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Generalfe.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of General.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Werner Mölders was promoted to the rank of Majo.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Daphne Pearson was awarded the Empire Gallantry Me.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 The British Army Intelligence Corps was establishe.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 The British Government removed the right of worker.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Heinz Guderian was promoted to the rank of General.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Eduard Dietl became the first person to receive Oa.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Ernst Udet was promoted to Generaloberst (equivale.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Walther von Brauchitsch was promoted to the rank o.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Denmark withdrew from the League of Nations......
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Wolfgang Falck was ordered to see Hermann Görin.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler spoke to the German Reichstag about A.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 British bombers attacked Bremen, Gelsenkirchen, Ka.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Robert von Greim was promoted to the rank of Gener.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 British troopship Royal Ulsterman departed from Gi.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Defiant turret fighters of No. 141 Squadron RAF we.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 The first prototype of the cavity magnetron was de.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 The keel of British corvette HMS Kingcup was laid.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 The keel of British submarine HMS Umbra was laid d.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 British corvette HMS Bluebell was commissioned int.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 British corvette HMS Picotee was launched......
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS P611 was launched......
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMS Crestflower was b.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a proposal t.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt departed Washingto.....
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On Fri. 19 Jul 1940 Fumimaro Konoe, Yosuke Matsuoka, Zengo Yoshida, an.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 During the night, British aircraft from Hemswell-L.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 Six British Swordfish torpedo bombers from carrier.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 German aircraft sank transport Pulborough and dama.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed R.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 German pilot Werner Streib of the Nachtjagdgeschwa.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 Canadian patrol vessel HMCS Ambler departed Quebec.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 The keel of Canadian corvette HMCS Trail was laid.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 Canadian patrol craft HMCS Norsal was commissioned.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 British bombers attacked Düsseldorf and Wismar,.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Parthian disembarked a Briti.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 The British government banned the sale of new cars.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS P612 was launched......
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 James Lacey shot down his first enemy aircraft dur.....
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On Sat. 20 Jul 1940 HMS Eagle at Alexandria, Egypt, 20 Jul 1940; note.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 Battleship Bismarck underwent an inclining test......
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 British Hampden bombers from No. 61 and No. 144 Sq.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 British Hampden bombers from No. 61 and No. 144 Sq.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 German submarine U-30 sank British ship Ellaroy 18.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 Mikio Furusho passed away......
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 German aircraft attacked convoys in the English Ch.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 British Blenheim bombers of No. 107 Squadron RAF a.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 The German Army High Command submitted a plan to A.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 3 bombers of No. 51 Squadron RAF attacked Hamm, Ge.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 The Soviet Union revealed the result of plebiscite.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 Edvard Bene_ established the Czechoslovakian gover.....
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On Sun. 21 Jul 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt returned to Washin.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 USS Phoenix arrived at Callao, Peru......
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 British destroyer HMS Beagle shot down a German Ju.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Clyde fired 6 torpedoes at a.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Canadian corvette HMS Eyebright was launched at Mo.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Blenheim bombers of No. 107 Squadron of 2 Group of.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Wolfgang Falck received a call from Hermann Gör.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Whitley bombers of 4 Group of British RAF Bomber C.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru departed Y.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Hideki Tojo was appointed the Army Minister in Jap.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Prince Fumimaro Konoe became the 38th Prime Minist.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Hachiro Arita stepped down as the Minister of Fore.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Soviet submarine Shch-138 was launched......
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 The British War Cabinet approved the 19 Jul 1940 d.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lor.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 During the day, German Luftwaffe flew only reconna.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 The keel of British minesweeper HMS Lyemun was lai.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 The keel of British minesweeper HMS Lantan was lai.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 While escorting convoy CW7, British B-class destro.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 The keel of British destroyer HMS Paladin was laid.....
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On Mon. 22 Jul 1940 Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe and his sec.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 The British Secretary of War announced that 1,300,.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley W.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 8,077 Canadian troops bound for Britain departed f.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 The British third war budget raised Income Tax to.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 German aircraft conducted raids on coastal cities.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 The British Minister of State for Air Sir Archibal.....
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On Tues. 23 Jul 1940 Sydney Camm, Chief Designer at Hawker aviation, ma.....
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On Wed. 24 Jul 1940 During the night, 14 British Whitley aircraft atta.....
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On Wed. 24 Jul 1940 1,277 French Navy sailors captured by the British.....
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On Wed. 24 Jul 1940 Reports of the Lancastria disaster (which was sunk.....
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On Wed. 24 Jul 1940 At 0630 hours, German Luftwaffe aircraft bombed th.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 German battleship Gneisenau completed its torpedo.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed Rio de Janeiro.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 The German Reich Economic Minister outlined the Ne.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 Commander of the Swiss military General Henri Guis.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 The United States banned the sale of scrap metal a.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 USS Trenton arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, United.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 The United Kingdom evacuated women and children fr.....
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On Thurs. 25 Jul 1940 German aircraft attacked shipping and naval bases.....
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On Fri. 26 Jul 1940 USS Phoenix departed Callao, Peru......
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On Fri. 26 Jul 1940 Joseph Avenol, the Secretary-General of the League.....
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On Fri. 26 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Thames detected the convoy c.....
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On Fri. 26 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 attacked convoy OB-188 with.....
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On Fri. 26 Jul 1940 US President Roosevelt, using powers granted to hi.....
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On Fri. 26 Jul 1940 Joachim von Ribbentrop was updated by German agent.....
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On Fri. 26 Jul 1940 Several German raids launched against Britain were.....
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On Sat. 27 Jul 1940 A Board of Enquiry was held regarding the sinking.....
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On Sat. 27 Jul 1940 15 German dive bombers attacked 6 British mineswee.....
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On Sat. 27 Jul 1940 German submarine U-34 attacked Allied convoy OB-18.....
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On Sat. 27 Jul 1940 The first five Beaufighter IF fighters were handed.....
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On Sat. 27 Jul 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of the.....
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On Sat. 27 Jul 1940 Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu and German For.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 All rail lines between occupied France and Vichy F.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 President Jozef Tiso and Prime Minister Vojtech Tu.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 British HMS Alcantara was hit by 3 shells from Ger.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 Werner Mölders flew his first combat sortie in.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 The German Army examined closely the German Navy's.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 More than 100 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing,.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 Japanese police arrested nine British nationals re.....
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On Sun. 28 Jul 1940 100 German aircraft in 5 waves crossed the Strait.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 Sea Gladiator fighters from HMS Eagle shot down an.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 40 German Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers attacked Dover.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 British Air Ministry accused Germany of using resc.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 At a conference held in a converted railway carria.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Sealion detected German subm.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Clan Menzi.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed R.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 Portugal and Spain added a clause to the 1939 frie.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 German naval command (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarin.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 The Japanese reported that Mr. Melville Cox, one o.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 The weapons firm Albright & Wilson of Oldbury, Eng.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary of the.....
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On Mon. 29 Jul 1940 Slovakian President Jozef Tiso and German Foreign.....
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On Tues. 30 Jul 1940 The Act of Havana was signed by the representative.....
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On Tues. 30 Jul 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at.....
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On Tues. 30 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler arrived at Innsbruck, Austria......
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On Tues. 30 Jul 1940 USS Phoenix arrived at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone......
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On Tues. 30 Jul 1940 Low clouds and rain restricted both German and Bri.....
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On Tues. 30 Jul 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt returned to Washin.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy arrived.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Jamaica Pr.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 British destroyer HMS Whitshed hit a mine off Harw.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin sank British.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 British submarine HMS Spearfish departed Rosyth, S.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 Adolf Hitler announced that he would decide whethe.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 Joachim von Ribbentrop, upon learning that the Duk.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 At Adolf Hitler's residence near Berchtesgaden, Mu.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 Mitsubishi delivered the first production Zero fig.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 While German Army and Navy leadership continued to.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 American ambassador in London, England, United Kin.....
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On Wed. 31 Jul 1940 The United States Government prohibited the export.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Soviet Foreign Minister reaffirmed Soviet neutrali.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 A convoy consisted of 6 troop transports carrying.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Italian destroyer Ugolino Vivaldi detected British.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Italian submarine Goffredo Mameli sank Greek ship.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Dutch submarine O-21 fired two torpedoes at German.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 The US Navy established the new Alaskan Sector com.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Adolf Galland was awarded the Knights Cross for ac.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 The Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII o.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Franz Halder and his staff began planning for the.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Yoshijiro Umezu was promoted to the rank of genera.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 German submarine U-34 detected British submarine H.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 German submarine U-59 sank Swedish ship Sigyn at 0.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 In the morning, a British Spitfire fighter on a ph.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Helmuth Brinkmann was named the commanding officer.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 U-576 was laid down by the firm Blohm & Voss in Ha.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 RAF bombers attacked the Krupp factory in Essen, G.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka asked Fr.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 Operation Hurry: British carrier HMS Argus set sai.....
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On Thurs. 01 Aug 1940 30 German He 111 aircraft reached Norwich, England.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 Hulbert was commissioned into service......
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 Lord Beaverbrook was appointed to the British War.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 French military court sentenced General de Gaulle.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 Overnight, British submarine HMS Thames hit a mine.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 German Ju 87 aircraft attacked German submarine U-.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 German submarine U-99 torpedoed British merchant s.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt and his cabinet discussed t.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 Operation Hurry: 12 British Hurricane fighters wer.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was formed......
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 Before dawn, two German He 115 seaplanes attacked.....
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On Fri. 02 Aug 1940 Josef Frantisek joined the British Royal Air Force.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Japanese luxury ocean liner Hikawa Maru disembarke.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Winston Churchill warned the British people agains.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 German submarine U-57 sank Swedish ship Atos at 08.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic became a memb.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt was assigned the Comma.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed B.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 A second batch of five Beaufighter IF fighters wer.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Italian General Guglielmo Nasi led an invasion for.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Heavy fog restricted the German Luftwaffe to condu.....
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On Sat. 03 Aug 1940 Two Japanese businessmen were arrested in London,.....
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On Sun. 04 Aug 1940 Italian troops marched in three columns toward Ber.....
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On Sun. 04 Aug 1940 German submarine U-58 sank Greek ship Pindos with.....
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On Sun. 04 Aug 1940 British submarine HMS Sealion sank Norwegian ship.....
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On Sun. 04 Aug 1940 After sundown, German armed merchant cruiser Widde.....
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On Sun. 04 Aug 1940 Three British minesweeping trawlers hit German nav.....
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On Sun. 04 Aug 1940 German anti-submarine trawler Perseus (UJ-175) hit.....
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On Sun. 04 Aug 1940 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Wei
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 During the night, British Hampden aircraft attacke.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 The United Kingdom and Poland signed a military ag.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 Churchill and de Gaulle agreed on Free French forc.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 Germany announced that all citizens will be requir.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 Lieutenant General Bertoldi's Italian troops captu.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 German submarine U-56 attacked British ship Boma a.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT River Clyde hit a.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 The US Navy Chief of Naval Operations established.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 HMS Hermes joined a South Africa-bound convoy in t.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was official.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 Large German Luftwaffe formations patrolled the St.....
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On Mon. 05 Aug 1940 US Navy Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade and French.....
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On Tues. 06 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at.....
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On Tues. 06 Aug 1940 Italian troops under Brigadier General Bertello ca.....
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On Tues. 06 Aug 1940 Ba Maw, the pro-Japanese anti-British former Premi.....
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On Tues. 06 Aug 1940 US Army transport American Legion reached Petsamo,.....
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On Tues. 06 Aug 1940 Operation Tube: British submarine HMS Pandora reac.....
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On Tues. 06 Aug 1940 British submarine HMS Sealion was rammed by German.....
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On Tues. 06 Aug 1940 At 0630 hours, Hurricane fighters of No. 85 Squadr.....
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On Wed. 07 Aug 1940 American destroyer Grayson was launched......
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On Wed. 07 Aug 1940 The 1st Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment arrived in.....
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On Wed. 07 Aug 1940 German submarine U-38 torpedoed and sank British t.....
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On Wed. 07 Aug 1940 Werner Mölders returned to duty without receivi.....
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On Wed. 07 Aug 1940 Lord Halifax of the United Kingdom and US Ambassad.....
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On Wed. 07 Aug 1940 German aircraft bombed one convoy, but otherwise v.....
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On Wed. 07 Aug 1940 USS Phoenix arrived at San Pedro, Los Angeles, Cal.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 Laws restricting education and employment were int.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 Wages of British military personnel increased by 6.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 Troops of the 2nd Battalion, UK (Scottish) Black W.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Upwey Gran.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered Walter Warlimont, Alfred Jodl.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 Edward Brooks was promoted to the rank of lieutena.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 After several days of little action, the Germans l.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Widder sank Dutch co.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 Battleship No. 1, the future battleship Yamato, wa.....
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On Thurs. 08 Aug 1940 Operation Tube: British submarine HMS Proteus reac.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy arrived.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 Orion was ordered to make rendezvous with supply s.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 Hermann Göring believed Luftwaffe had control o.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed S.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was officia.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 Friederich Schumacher was named the civilian admin.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 German submarine U-30 sank Swedish merchant ship C.....
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On Fri. 09 Aug 1940 Gunboat USS Erie, with Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 Orion detected ship Triona off Brisbane, Australia.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 German submarine U-56 struck HMS Transylvania 20 m.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 German occupation government in Luxembourg deemed.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 Romania passed anti-Semitic laws......
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Widder stopped Finni.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 Allied convoy OA-196's Dutch ship Albula and Ameri.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 The Japanese naval blockade of China was expanded.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille was assigned to I. (Jagd) L.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 British troop ship SS Neuralia departed Gibraltar,.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 The Italian Naval Staff issued its first operation.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 Hermann Göring's Adler Tag offensive against RA.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 The British government announced the withdrawal of.....
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On Sat. 10 Aug 1940 In the United States, President Roosevelt inspecte.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 British Major General Reade Godwin-Austen arrived.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 German submarine U-38 sank British ship Llanfair 1.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 With trade with the outside world seriously effect.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 Liu Zhesheng damaged a Japanese G3M2 bomber......
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 90 Japanese bombers attacked Chongqing, China. Maj.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 With the three Baltic States now annexed by the So.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 Although the weather was fine, the German Luftwaff.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 British Commander-in-Chief Middle East Major Gener.....
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On Sun. 11 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt departed Boston Navy Yard,.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 It officially became illegal to waste food in the.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 Italian troops renewed the attack at Tug Argan, Br.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 Italian submarine Malaspina sank British tanker Br.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 Flight Lieutenant Rod Learoyd of 49 Squadron based.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 Gunboat USS Erie, with Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 The Military Collegium of the Soviet NKVD sentence.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 Iride departed La Spezia, Italy for Libya with fou.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 20 German Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters, especially c.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 James Lacey was shot down over Britain.....
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On Mon. 12 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt departed Mattapoisett, Mass.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita and USS Quincy departed.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 The British Royal Navy cruiser HMS Carlisle shot d.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 German submarine U-60 sank Swedish ship Nils Gorth.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt met with Secretary of the N.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 The first shells fired from the French side of the.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler and attempted t.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 Admiral Thomas C. Hart of the US Navy Asiatic Flee.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 German Luftwaffe launched Adlerangriff, Eagle Atta.....
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On Tues. 13 Aug 1940 James Lacey was shot down by a German He 111 aircr.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 Orion spent most of this day looking for her Ar 19.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 Roosevelt approved what later became the Two-Ocean.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 The British Ministry of Home Security announced th.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 British and Commonwealth troops engaged in heavy f.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 On his way to ignite a coup in the Irish Republic.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 Cloudy weather prevented Germans from launching la.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 German submarine U-59 sank British ship Betty 15 m.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 British destroyer HMS Malcolm, destroyer HMS Verit.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed R.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 Adolf Hitler heard from Walther von Brauchitsch, w.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 Oberst Alois Stoeckl, the commanding officer of th.....
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On Wed. 14 Aug 1940 US Navy Asiatic Fleet chief Admiral Thomas C. Hart.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 Roosevelt approved the National Defense Research C.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 Italian troops continued the attack at Tug Argan,.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 Italian Air Force bombers attacked Greek destroyer.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 German submarine U-A sank Greek ship Aspasia 700 m.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 Eric Wilson of British Somaliland Camel Corps mann.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 British Prime Minister Churchill responded to US P.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 The US Navy established a Naval Air Station in Mia.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 Oberstleutnant Hans Korte was named the commanding.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 Elli was sunk by Italian submarine Delfino at Tino.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 As the weather over Britain cleared up, the German.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 US Assistant Chief of Naval Operations Rear Admira.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 James Lacey damaged a German Do 17 aircraft over B.....
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On Thurs. 15 Aug 1940 The US Army contracted with the automobile manufac.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 Orion attacked and sank French ship Notu which was.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 British and Commonwealth troops began evacuating B.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 Despite fine weather, German attacks on Britain we.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 Despite being badly wounded and with his Hurricane.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 British submarine Osiris sank Italian ship Morea 5.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 German submarine U-100 sank British ship Empire Me.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 Hungary and Romania began negotiating over Transyl.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 Adolf Galland recieved the Pilot's Badge in Gold w.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt announced in a press confer.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 US Army Transport American Legion departed Petsamo.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 Wilhelm Keitel issued the order that, per Adolf Hi.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 James Lacey claimed a probable kill on a German Bf.....
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On Fri. 16 Aug 1940 A "Test" Platoon led by Major William Lee and cons.....
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On Sat. 17 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed B.....
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On Sat. 17 Aug 1940 The Parliament of the Kingdom of Afghanistan was e.....
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On Sat. 17 Aug 1940 Adolf Hitler announced an air and sea blockade of.....
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On Sat. 17 Aug 1940 German leaders designated Berlin as the European f.....
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On Sat. 17 Aug 1940 HMS Hermes began receiving repairs at Simon's Town.....
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On Sat. 17 Aug 1940 German occupation administration destroying Adam M.....
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On Sun. 18 Aug 1940 The British evaucation of Berbera, British Somalil.....
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On Sun. 18 Aug 1940 No. 302 (Polish) and No. 310 (Czechoslovakian) squ.....
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On Sun. 18 Aug 1940 On this "Hardest Day", German aircraft attacked Ke.....
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On Sun. 18 Aug 1940 The keel of Columbia was laid down by New York Shi.....
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On Sun. 18 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister.....
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On Sun. 18 Aug 1940 Wreckage of a Do 17 aircraft in Britain, 18 Aug 19.....
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On Mon. 19 Aug 1940 Italian troops captured Berbera, British Somalilan.....
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On Mon. 19 Aug 1940 German submarine U-48 sank Belgian passenger ship.....
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On Mon. 19 Aug 1940 The North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber too.....
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On Mon. 19 Aug 1940 Twelve A6M2 Model 11 Zero fighters escorted fifty.....
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On Mon. 19 Aug 1940 Cloud and rain limited German reconnaissance capab.....
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On Mon. 19 Aug 1940 USS R-5 was recommissioned into service......
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On Mon. 19 Aug 1940 Working on the rudder of battleship North Carolina.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Orion spotted Britis.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 Hermann Göring sent peace proposals to Britain.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 Joseph Stalin's political enemy Leon Trotsky was a.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 British submarine HMS Cachalot torpedoed and sank.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 Theodor Osterkamp, the commanding officer of Jagdg.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 Chinese communist forces launched the Hundred Regi.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 Luftwaffe leadership ordered that no more Ju 87 St.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 At 1445 hours, 190 German aircraft flew over the T.....
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On Tues. 20 Aug 1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made the.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 Iride, with four manned torpedoes on board intende.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 Joseph Stalin's political enemy Leon Trotsky died.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Widder sank British.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 Italian submarine Dandolo damaged Dutch tanker Her.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright arrived at.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft of.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 The United Kingdom House of Commons authorized for.....
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On Wed. 21 Aug 1940 Bad weather prevented large formations of German b.....
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On Thurs. 22 Aug 1940 Three Swordfish torpedo bombers of 824 Squadron of.....
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On Thurs. 22 Aug 1940 British Swordfish torpedo bombers of 812 Squadron.....
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On Thurs. 22 Aug 1940 James V. Forrestal, former Administrative Assistan.....
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On Thurs. 22 Aug 1940 Adolf Galland was appointed Geschwaderkommodore JG.....
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On Thurs. 22 Aug 1940 Harrow in northwest London, England, United Kingdo.....
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On Thurs. 22 Aug 1940 Winston Churchill visited RAF Kenley in southern L.....
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On Thurs. 22 Aug 1940 TBD-1 Devastator aircraft of Torpedo Squadron 3 wi.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita (with chief of Cruiser.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 German propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels launched a.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 British destroyer HMS Hostile hit a mine 18 miles.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney, Australian destroy.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 German submarine U-37 torpedoed Norwegian ship Ker.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 Destroyers USS Walke and USS Wainwright departed P.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 James Lacey was awarded the Distinguished Flying M.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 The British RAF flew a retaliation strike against.....
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On Fri. 23 Aug 1940 Rain and clouds prevented the Germans from mountin.....
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On Sat. 24 Aug 1940 Bismarck was commissioned into service......
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On Sat. 24 Aug 1940 German submarine U-57 attacked Allied convoy OB-20.....
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On Sat. 24 Aug 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank Britis.....
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On Sat. 24 Aug 1940 Before dawn, the London Blitz began as a misguided.....
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On Sat. 24 Aug 1940 James Lacey shot down a German Ju 88 aircraft and.....
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On Sat. 24 Aug 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille scored his first kill, a Br.....
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On Sat. 24 Aug 1940 Commissioning ceremony of German battleship Bismar.....
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On Sun. 25 Aug 1940 Battleship Bismarck fired 52 3.7cm and 400 2cm she.....
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On Sun. 25 Aug 1940 Allied convoy HX-65 from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Can.....
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On Sun. 25 Aug 1940 81 British Hampden bombers of No. 49 and No. 50 Sq.....
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On Sun. 25 Aug 1940 At 1700 hours, German bombers attacked RAF Warmwel.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 Chad declared war on Germany and Italy......
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 Italian submarine Dandolo sank British steamer Ilv.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 German torpedo bombers attacked two British ships.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin's seaplane a.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 The British RAF bombed Leipzig, Leuna, Hanover, No.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered the transfer of 10 infantry d.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 The American-Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Def.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 Ireland lodged a protest in Berlin, Germany after.....
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On Mon. 26 Aug 1940 With clear weather, the Germans launched three maj.....
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On Tues. 27 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt signed the joint resolution.....
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On Tues. 27 Aug 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin stopped Brit.....
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On Tues. 27 Aug 1940 Wilhelm Keitel revealed an invasion plan for Brita.....
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On Tues. 27 Aug 1940 Caproni's C.C.2 prototype motorjet aircraft took i.....
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On Tues. 27 Aug 1940 Bad weather limited the Germans to flying reconnai.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita (with Rear Admiral Andr.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 Radio broadcast in Vichy France announced that law.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 German submarine U-101 torpedoed Finnish ship Elle.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 Werner Mölders' wingman Oberleutnant Kircheis w.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 US Army transport American Legion, with destroyers.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered troops to prepare for an occu.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 Simo H_yh_ was promoted from the rank of corporal.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 Overnight, British bombers attacked Berlin, German.....
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On Wed. 28 Aug 1940 Shortly after 0800 hours, German bomber formations.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 Heavy cruisers USS Wichita (with Rear Admiral Andr.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 The United Kingdom rejected Germany's proposal to.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 The British Tizard Mission shared radar technology.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 Ribbentrop and Count Ciano met Romanian and Hungar.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 The French colonies of Equatorial Africa and the C.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 German submarine U-100 hit five ships in Allied co.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 Rear Admiral John Downes relieved Rear Admiral Wil.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 Red Army divisional commanding officer Grigoriy Fy.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 Berlin formally apologized to Ireland for bombing.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 Low clouds and rain in the morning prevented Germa.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 James Lacey shot down a Bf 109 fighter of German J.....
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On Thurs. 29 Aug 1940 The first mass jump by American paratroopers was c.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 The brand-new armoured aircraft carrier, HMS Illus.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 Captain Leicester Charles Assheton Curzon-Howe was.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 In exchange for a German guarantee of security, Ro.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 No. 303 (Polish) Squadron RAF was deemed operation.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 German submarine U-32 sank three ships of Allied c.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 Rear Admiral Charles S. Freeman relieved Rear Admi.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 The Japanese-sponsored puppet state Manchukuo esta.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 RAF Bomber Command aircraft attacked Berlin, Germa.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 French Ambassador to Tokyo Ars
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 British RAF Bomber Command aircraft attacked oil r.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 Albert Kesselring knew that the British were used.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 Douglas Bader's No. 242 Squadron RAF was moved fro.....
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On Fri. 30 Aug 1940 After shooting down a German He 111 bomber and dam.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 Battleship Bismarck fired 46 3.7cm shells against.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 By the end of Aug 1940, a little over 51,000 Briti.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 Five British destroyers, ordered to intercept Germ.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 8,000 British and French troops departed from Brit.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 Werner Mölders claimed two victories against Br.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 US President Roosevelt called 60,000 men of the Na.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 Chen Cheng was relieved from his position as the h.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 Allied convoy OB-205 was attacked by German submar.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 RAF bombers attacked targets in Berlin, Cologne, H.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 The Ca.331 OA prototype aircraft took its first fl.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 While escorting the Operation Hats convoy toward M.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 Overnight, the British complete enough repairs to.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 James Lacey shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over.....
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On Sat. 31 Aug 1940 The Hollywood actors Laurence Olivier and Vivien L.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 British Destroyer HMS Ivanhoe sank after hitting a.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Royalo hit a mine.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Sunfish collided with patrol.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 German submarine U-101 sank Greek ship Efploia 100.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 Cruisers HMS Orion and HMAS Sydney and destroyers.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 Otto Skorzeny was promoted to the rank of Oberscha.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 German naval shipping began to move from North Sea.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 Vyacheslav Molotov complained that the Second Vien.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 The Italian Navy established a frogmen training sc.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 The coke-fired two-retort furnace in the Auschwitz.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 Formations of German fighters arrived in Britain i.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 In an unprecedented event in United States history.....
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On Sun. 01 Sep 1940 The US Marine Corps Midway Detachment of the Fleet.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 German submarine U-47 sank Belgian ship Ville de M.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Sturgeon sank German troop s.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 German submarine U-58 departed Lorient, France; on.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 Franklin Roosevelt approved the "destroyers for ba.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 US Secretary of State Hull and British Ambassador.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 No. 25 and 29 Squadrons RAF each received their fi.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down a British Spitfir.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 In the morning, German bombers attacked RAF Eastch.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 James Lacey shot down two German Bf 109 fighters a.....
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On Mon. 02 Sep 1940 Josef Frantisek, flying a Hurricane fighter, score.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 German submarine U-57 collided with Norwegian ship.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 German submarine U-60 sank British collier Ulva ab.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 Joachim von Ribbentrop denied that the Second Vien.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 He Yingqin ordered Nationalist 18th Army to counte.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 Vojtech Tuka convinced the Slovak assembly to enac.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 Germany began planning Operation Sealion, the inva.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 50 German Do 17 bombers escorted by 80 Bf 110 figh.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 Light cruiser USS St. Louis departed Norfolk, Virg.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 US President Franklin Roosevelt announced the dest.....
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On Tues. 03 Sep 1940 TBD-1 Devastator showing damage to fuselage after.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 German submarine U-47 sank British ship Titan of A.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 French Army General Maurice Martin took over Franc.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 German motor torpedo boats attacked Allied convoy.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 German submarine U-45 sank Irish ship Luimneach 20.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 Prince Nagahisa passed away in an airplane crash a.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 Adolf Hitler addressed a crowd of factory workers,.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the British Fleet A.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 Romanian King Carol II handed power over to the pr.....
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On Wed. 04 Sep 1940 German bombers attacked RAF airfields at Eastchurc.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 Matrosenobergefreiter Heinrich Mantyk fell overboa.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 Japanese troops crossed the border into Indochina.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 Hungarian troops entered Northern Transylvania, te.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 6 Blenheim IV bombers and 6 Hurricane fighters arr.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Komet completed its.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 Akagi departed Yokosuka, Japan Tabular Record of M.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 Koichi Shiozawa was named the commanding officer o.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 Ion Antonescu became the Prime Minister of Romania.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 In the morning, German bombers attacked RAF airfie.....
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On Thurs. 05 Sep 1940 James Lacey shot down two German Bf 109 fighters o.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Tribune attacked German subm.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 US military issued contracts for the construction.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 All French colonies supporting General de Gaulle h.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 British troop ship Dunera arrived in Australia wit.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 German aircraft damaged British merchant ship Melb.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 HMS Argus launched 30 Hurricane fighters for Takor.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler in regards to t.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 Rudolf von Schmettow was made the military governo.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 German aircraft bombed the town of Grantham. This.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 A Nationalist Chinese brigade was wiped out by Com.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, battleship.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 A German paratrooper dressed in civilian clothes w.....
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On Fri. 06 Sep 1940 A Vultee Model 48C Vanguard aircraft, the first of.....
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On Sat. 07 Sep 1940 German submarine U-47 sank British ship Neptunian.....
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On Sat. 07 Sep 1940 Douglas Bader shot down two German Bf 110 heavy fi.....
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On Sat. 07 Sep 1940 Ignoring the RAF airfields, German bombers instead.....
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On Sat. 07 Sep 1940 German He 111 bomber over Surrey Docks, London, En.....
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On Sun. 08 Sep 1940 Battleship Bismarck fired 72 3.7cm and 65 2cm shel.....
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On Sun. 08 Sep 1940 British cruiser HMS Aurora, escorted by 3 destroye.....
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On Sun. 08 Sep 1940 British torpedo boats MTB-14, MTB-15 and MTB-17 sa.....
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On Sun. 08 Sep 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Widder stopped Greek.....
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On Sun. 08 Sep 1940 Adolf Galland was nearly shot down on the French c.....
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On Sun. 08 Sep 1940 At 1200 hours, 20 German bombers escorted by 30 Bf.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 German submarine U-47 sank Greek ship Possidon of.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 All political parties in Norway were dissolved exc.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 The US Navy awarded contracts for the construction.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Italian Army Marshal Rudolfo Graziani ordered his.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Greek collier Antonios Chandris, abandoned by her.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 German submarine U-28 sank British ship Mardinian.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 British Skua aircraft of 801 Squadron took off fro.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank Britis.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Walther von Brauchitsch issued a plan for the futu.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft an.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille was awarded Iron Cross 2nd.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 At Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the first eight o.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Montcalm departed Toulon, France Facility.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 French intelligence reported a possible invasion o.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Adolf Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion, the inv.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 Aircraft from HMS Illustrious and HMS Eagle attack.....
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 German long-range guns shelled Dover, England......
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On Mon. 09 Sep 1940 A large German raid crossed the English Channel at.....
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On Tues. 10 Sep 1940 Battleship Bismarck fired 6 3.7cm shells against r.....
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On Tues. 10 Sep 1940 Italian troops crossed the Libyan-Egyptian border......
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On Tues. 10 Sep 1940 The French Navy informed the British Naval Attach_.....
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On Tues. 10 Sep 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank Britis.....
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On Tues. 10 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Sturgeon attacked German sub.....
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On Tues. 10 Sep 1940 Adolf Hitler postponed the decision for launching.....
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On Tues. 10 Sep 1940 Bad weather restricted the Germans to flying recon.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 Japanese Army Major General Issaku Nishihara repor.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 At 0835 hours, six French warships passed through.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 German submarine U-28 attacked Dutch ship Maas (sa.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Albionic a.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 Winston Churchill noted that the coming week was t.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille scored his third kill when.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 After an entire morning without attacks, 300 Germa.....
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On Wed. 11 Sep 1940 The United States Navy ordered the construction of.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 Hungary completed the occupation of Northern Trans.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 After refueling at Casablanca overnight, three of.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 The Italian 10th Army advanced slowly toward the L.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin intercepted.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 In a report to his superiors dated this day regard.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 The German Navy noted that British naval shelling.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 Bad weather restricted German activity to small re.....
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On Thurs. 12 Sep 1940 Lieutenant Robert Davies' company of the British R.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 Italian troops of the 1st "23 March" Blackshirt Di.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 Three French ships carrying troops from North Afri.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 German minesweeping trawler Hermann Krone hit a mi.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 Sergeant J. Hannah was awarded the Victoria Cross......
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 13 Zero fighters escorted bombers on a mission to.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 27 Japanese G3M bombers, escorted by 13 A6M Zero f.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 HMS Rodney arrived at Rosyth, Scotland, United Kin.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 Bad weather restricted the size of German raids, b.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 British passenger ship City of Benares departed Li.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 James Lacey pursued the He 111 bombers of German K.....
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On Fri. 13 Sep 1940 The P-44 Rocket project, a plan to convert the P-4.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 The Japanese Imperial General Headquarters gave th.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 Adolf Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion once aga.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Resolution,.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 German anti-submarine trawler Hinrich Wesselhoft r.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 Italian submarine Emo attacked British tanker Sain.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 Douglas Bader was awarded the Distinguished Servic.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 Montcalm arrived at Dakar, French West Africa......
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 Cruiser Georges Leygues arrived at Dakar, French W.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 Walter Grabmann was awarded the Knight's Cross of.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 At 1530 hours, 150 German aircraft crossed the coa.....
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On Sat. 14 Sep 1940 Japanese Ki-21 bomber dropping bombs on Chongqing,.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 German submarine U-99 attacked Canadian ship Kenor.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 British Sergeant John Hannah, age 18, of RAF Scamp.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 British RAF attacked German launching points for t.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft an.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 B5N bombers of Japanese 12th Naval Air Group based.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 Battleship Bismarck departed Hamburg, Germany for.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille scored his fourth kill, a B.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 At 1130 hours, 250 German bombers with fighter esc.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 James Lacey shot down a German He 111 bomber and t.....
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On Sun. 15 Sep 1940 Battleship Bismarck at Brunsbüttel, Schleswig-H.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 Battleship Bismarck entered the Kiel Canal......
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 US Congress passed the Selective Training and Serv.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 Italian troops of the 1st Blackshirt Division "23.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 British bombers attacked German invasion barges in.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 German submarine U-99 sank Norwegian ship Lotos no.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 German bombers damaged British troop ship Aska in.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 French ship Poitiers, sailing from Libreville, Fre.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 The presence of German troops in Finland, despite.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 Communist Chinese New 4th Army captured Jiangyan (.....
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On Mon. 16 Sep 1940 At 0730 hours, more than 100 German Bf 109 fighter.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 Battleship Bismarck exited the Kiel Canal at 1448.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 British Swordfish torpedo bombers from carrier HMS.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 Franco-Japanese negotiations for Indochina re-open.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 British cruiser HMS Kent was damaged by a torpedo.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 British destroyers HMS Janus and HMS Juno departed.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 Hitler postponed Operation Sealion via order Nr. 0.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 No. 29 Squadron RAF became fully operational with.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille was awarded the Iron Cross.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 German submarine U-48 attacked British passenger l.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 At 1400 hours, German Ju 88 bombers attempted to a.....
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On Tues. 17 Sep 1940 James Lacey was shot down over Ashford, England, U.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 USS S-31 was recommissioned into service......
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 German submarine U-48 sank British ship Marina at.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Italian submarine Bagnolini sank Spanish ship Cabo.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Douglas Bader shot down a German Do 17 aircraft an.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 U-48 hit the British passenger liner City of Benar.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Emperor Kangde presided over the dedication ceremo.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 The American Library in Paris, France reopened......
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Montcalm departed Dakar, French West Africa......
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Cruiser Georges Leygues departed Dakar, French Wes.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Akagi departed Kure, Japan Tabular Record of Movem.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille scored his fifth kill, a Br.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 70 German Ju 88 bombers escorted by 100 Bf 109 fig.....
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On Wed. 18 Sep 1940 Pattern of condensation trails left by British and.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 Wellington, Hampden, and Whitley bombers of the Br.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin announced.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 British bombers sank German torpedo boat T-3 at Le.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 Italian submarines Archimede and Guglielmotti and.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 Italian submarine Comandante Faa Di Bruno attacked.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 Italian submarine Serpente mis-identified Italian.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 Rohan Amerasekera signed up for the British Royal.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 During the Imperial Conference, Prince Hiroyasu of.....
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On Thurs. 19 Sep 1940 Bad weather restricted aerial activity during the.....
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On Fri. 20 Sep 1940 German submarine U-A sank Panamanian collier Tuira.....
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On Fri. 20 Sep 1940 Allied convoy BN-5, which had so far successful in.....
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On Fri. 20 Sep 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank French.....
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On Fri. 20 Sep 1940 Werner Mölders shot down two Spitfire fighters.....
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On Fri. 20 Sep 1940 Jean Decoux allowed Japanese forces to enter Haiph.....
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On Fri. 20 Sep 1940 Three waves of German Bf 109 fighters totaling ove.....
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On Fri. 20 Sep 1940 A Dornier Do-17 medium bomber dropping a string of.....
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On Sat. 21 Sep 1940 German submarine U-47 detected Allied convoy HX-72.....
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On Sat. 21 Sep 1940 German submarine U-138 attacked Allied convoy OB-2.....
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On Sat. 21 Sep 1940 British carrier HMS Ark Royal, battleship HMS Barh.....
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On Sat. 21 Sep 1940 Werner Mölders was awarded Oak Leaves to his Kn.....
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On Sat. 21 Sep 1940 Through out most of the day, the German Luftwaffe.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 British Royal Navy launched 11 Swordfish torpedo b.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 Moscow radio reported that RAF bombing had largely.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 France tentatively agreed to meet increased Japane.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 Allied convoy HX-72 continued to be attacked by Ge.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 British destroyers HMS Jervis, HMS Janus, HMS Juno.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Truant sank Italian ship Pro.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Osiris sank Italian destroye.....
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On Sun. 22 Sep 1940 Bad weather restricted flying on both sides; only.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 USS R-1 was recommissioned into service......
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 Japanese troops invaded Indochina despite French a.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 Operation Menace: General Charles de Gaulle arrive.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 British submarine H-49 sank German ship Heimdal 7.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 King George VI of the United Kingdom instituted th.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 Bantam delivered a prototype, officially named the.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 The United Kingdom received 7 American destroyers.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 The British RAF Bomber Command sent 129 bombers fo.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 Werner Mölders was presented Oak Leaves to his.....
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On Mon. 23 Sep 1940 Two German raids approached London, England, Unite.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 In Britain, gasoline price rose to 2 shillings and.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 Japanese troops occupied Lang Son, Indochina.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 Operation Menace: Overnight, Governor of French We.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 King George VI of the United Kingdom instituted th.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 Douglas Bader was promoted to the war time rank of.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Cachalot attacked a German s.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Tuna sank German catapult sh.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 German motor torpedo boat S-30 sank British ship C.....
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On Tues. 24 Sep 1940 At 0830 and then again at 1115 hours, 200 German b.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 Vichy France instituted a court-martial body for c.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 The German merchant ship Weser was captured off th.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 France surrendered Indochina to Japan, but fightin.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 Operation Lucid: The British Royal Navy filled eac.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 Operation Menace: The British fleet bombarded Daka.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 German submarine U-32 sank British ship Mabriton 5.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 Adolf Galland was awarded Oak Leaves to his Knight.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 Joachim von Ribbentrop alerted the German embassy.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 At 1145 hours, 27 German bombers escorted by 30 fi.....
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On Wed. 25 Sep 1940 Gun camera footage from a Spitfire Mk I fighter of.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Tribune fired four torpedoes.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Thor sank Norwegian.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 In the late evening, the German ambassador in the.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 Erich Raeder met with Adolf Hitler, noting that th.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 Japan conducted an amphibious landing at Dong Tac,.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 At 1630 hours, 100 German aircraft attacked Southa.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 In Britain, Henry Willink, the Conservative Member.....
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On Thurs. 26 Sep 1940 King Christian X of Denmark riding through Copenha.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pa.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 300 miles west of Ireland, German submarine U-31 s.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 Douglas Bader shot down a German Bf 109 aircraft......
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 British minesweeper HMS Halcyon hit a mine at the.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 At 0900 hours, 80 German bombers escorted by 100 f.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 James Lacey shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down his 6th kill, a B.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 British newspaper The Daily Herald, on its front p.....
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On Fri. 27 Sep 1940 The United States announced that, with effect from.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 Battleship Bismarck departed Kiel for Gotenhafen a.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 The first of the purchased US destroyers arrived i.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 German submarine U-32 sank British ship Empire Oce.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 German tanker Shell II was sunk by British bombers.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 Australian destroyer HMAS Stuart and British aircr.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 British submarine HMS Pandora sank Italian ship Fa.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 Hans-Joachim Marseille shot down his 7th kill, a B.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 At 1000 hours, over 120 German aircaft crossed the.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 Nearly half a million mothers and children began e.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 Sumner Welles, US Under-Secretary of State, in a s.....
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On Sat. 28 Sep 1940 German Bf 109 fighter after force-landing on a Fre.....
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On Sun. 29 Sep 1940 While at sea, Scir
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On Sun. 29 Sep 1940 Having dispersed Allied convoy OB-218 with previou.....
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On Sun. 29 Sep 1940 British warships from Alexandria, Egypt bombarded.....
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On Sun. 29 Sep 1940 At 1600 hours, a large group of German aircraft, m.....
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On Sun. 29 Sep 1940 The US Marine Corps Midway Detachment of the Fleet.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 British monitor HMS Erebus fired 17 15-inch shells.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 British armed yacht HMY Sappho and minesweeping tr.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Samala 300.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 Hugh Dowding was made Knight Grand Commander of th.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 Georg von Bismarck was awarded the Knight's Cross.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 Thomas Adlerson of British Air Raid Precautions wa.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 Communist Chinese New 4th Army withdrew from Jiang.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 4 German raids, each consisting of 60 to 200 bombe.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 James Lacey damaged a German Ju 88 aircraft over B.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 Over Britain, Josef Frantisek scored his final kil.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 USS Arizona arrived at Long Beach, California, Uni.....
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On Mon. 30 Sep 1940 Battleship Iowa under construction, New York Navy.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Italian submarine Maggiore Baracca sank Greek ship.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 British troops reinforced the garrison on Malta......
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 US Navy and US Marine Corps began the Special Land.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Luftwaffe ace Erich Hartmann began basic training.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Hermann Göring officially awarded Wolfgang Falc.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 George Brett was promoted to the rank of major gen.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Hubert Lanz was awarded the Knight's Cross of the.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Small raids of 20 to 70 aircraft each attacked RAF.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Belgium Congo uranium began to arrived at Staten I.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Clarence Tinker was promoted to the rank of brigad.....
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On Tues. 01 Oct 1940 Canadian boy chasing after his father, a member of.....
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On Wed. 02 Oct 1940 British destroyers HMS Havock and HMS Hasty sank I.....
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On Wed. 02 Oct 1940 British cruisers HMS Orion and HMS Sydney bombarde.....
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On Wed. 02 Oct 1940 German submarine U-32 sank British ship Kayeson 40.....
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On Wed. 02 Oct 1940 George Patton was promoted to the temporary rank o.....
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On Wed. 02 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler ordered Hans Frank and other Nazi off.....
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On Wed. 02 Oct 1940 A German Ju 88 bomber became lost in the darkness.....
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On Thurs. 03 Oct 1940 British politician Neville Chamberlain resigned as.....
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On Thurs. 03 Oct 1940 Vichy France passed anti-Semitic laws that exclude.....
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On Thurs. 03 Oct 1940 Prince Kotohito stepped down as the Chief of the J.....
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On Thurs. 03 Oct 1940 London, Worcester, Birmingham, and Wellingborough.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 The British Admiralty announced the sinking of sev.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Rainbow collided with Italia.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Triton attacked various targ.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Tetrarch attacked an Italian.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 General Charles de Gaulle arrived in Douala, Frenc.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Operation Lucid: British tankers War Nizam and War.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 6 Hawk 75 fighters of the Chinese 18th Squadron we.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Nationalist Chinese troops launched an attack on C.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler met Benito Mussolini in the Brenner P.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 In Britain, German bombers attacked Kent in southe.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Sir Cyril Newall retired as British Chief of Air S.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Sir Richard Peirse became Commander-in-Chief of th.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Regent sank Italian ship Mar.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Italian submarine Nani sank British trawler HMT Ki.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox ordered all or.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 The US Marine Corps organized the Air Detachment,.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Hauptmann Helmut Wick, the Gruppenkommandeur of 1/.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Communist Chinese New 4th Army counterattacked and.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Between 0930 and 1600 hours, 4 German raids of mai.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 Henry Arnold submitted a proposal for the reorgani.....
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On Fri. 04 Oct 1940 British Cruiser Mk IV tanks being loaded onto rail.....
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On Sun. 06 Oct 1940 German submarine U-123 sank British ship Benlawers.....
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On Sun. 06 Oct 1940 Italian submarine Tricheco sank Italian submarine.....
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On Sun. 06 Oct 1940 Hauptmann Helmut Wick, the Gruppenkommandeur of 1/.....
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On Sun. 06 Oct 1940 German Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighter-bombers conducted.....
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On Mon. 07 Oct 1940 Operation Lucid: British tankers War Nizam and War.....
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On Mon. 07 Oct 1940 In the morning, Hermann Göring presented Wolfga.....
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On Mon. 07 Oct 1940 German submarine U-59 sank Norwegian ship Touraine.....
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On Mon. 07 Oct 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin stopped Norw.....
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On Mon. 07 Oct 1940 German Luftwaffe dispatched large raids of 50 to 1.....
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On Mon. 07 Oct 1940 James Lacey claimed a probable kill on a German Bf.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 During the night, 17 British aircraft from Wadding.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 Orion made rendezvous with raider Komet and Komet'.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 The United States transferred 8 more old destroyer.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 Czech-born fighter ace Sergeant Josef Frantisek of.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Trident and German submarine.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 The British Mediterranean Fleet departed Alexandri.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 The German Luftwaffe mounted 4 raids of 30 to 160.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 Josef Frantisek passed away in Ewell, England, Uni.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 The United States Department of State released an.....
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On Tues. 08 Oct 1940 Londoners taking shelter in an underground train t.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 German submarine U-103 attacked Allied convoy SC-6.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMS Sea King hit a mi.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 British Albacore biplanes of No. 829 Squadron from.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Regent hit Italian merchant.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 The occupation government in the Netherlands banne.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 German troops began to secure oil fields in Romani.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 Winston Churchill became the head of British Conse.....
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On Wed. 09 Oct 1940 German fighter-bombers dropped bombs in London, Ma.....
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On Thurs. 10 Oct 1940 During the night, 14 British aircraft from Wadding.....
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On Thurs. 10 Oct 1940 British ship Graigwen, damaged on the previous day.....
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On Thurs. 10 Oct 1940 British motor torpedo boats MTB-22, MTB-31, and MT.....
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On Thurs. 10 Oct 1940 Communist Chinese New 4th Army linked up with Comm.....
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On Thurs. 10 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler initiated the Führer-Sofortprogram.....
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On Thurs. 10 Oct 1940 A lone German Do 17 bomber on a reconnaissance mis.....
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On Thurs. 10 Oct 1940 British Morris Quad vehicle towing an Ordnance QF.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 During the night, 4 British Hampden aircraft (out.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 Operation Medium: Between 0333 and 0351 hours, Bri.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 British destroyer HMS Zulu hit an acoustic mine in.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 German torpedo boats Falke, Greif, Kondor, Seeadle.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 Italian bombers attacked Allied convoy BS.6 in the.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 Werner Mölders claimed his 43rd victory over Ca.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 Charles Hunziger presented the Order of Merit and.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 Repair ship Akashi participated in the annual nava.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 Settsu participated in a naval review in Yokohama.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 Garland entered drydocks at Malta for repairs......
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 A convoy of 4 merchant ships arrived at Malta from.....
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On Fri. 11 Oct 1940 While small raids of 10 or few aircraft harassed s.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 HMS Eagle was damaged by near misses from bombs re.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 A new German military mission was set up in Buchar.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 German submarines U-48, U-59, and U-101 attacked A.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMS Resolvo hit a min.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 Werner Mölders shot down three British Hurrican.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 The TsKB-57 prototype aircraft of the Soviet Ilysh.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 Germany postponed Operation Sealion, the invasion.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 US Navy awarded a contract for various constructio.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 Battle of Cape Passero: On the previous day, the B.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 German Governor-General of occupied Poland Hans Fr.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 German reconnaissance aircraft scouted England, Un.....
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On Sat. 12 Oct 1940 James Lacey shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over.....
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On Sun. 13 Oct 1940 During the night, many British aircraft were launc.....
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On Sun. 13 Oct 1940 British rescue tug HMRT Danube III hit a mine in t.....
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On Sun. 13 Oct 1940 German submarine U-103 attacked Estonian ship Nora.....
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On Sun. 13 Oct 1940 At dawn, a British flying boat spotted Italian des.....
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On Sun. 13 Oct 1940 Four raids of 25 to 50 aircraft attacked southern.....
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On Mon. 14 Oct 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Orion stopped and sc.....
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On Mon. 14 Oct 1940 Three American passenger liners were sent for Japa.....
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On Mon. 14 Oct 1940 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Lord Stamp hit.....
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On Mon. 14 Oct 1940 Major Friedrich Kless of the German Kampfgeschwade.....
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On Mon. 14 Oct 1940 En route from Malta to Alexandra, Egypt, aircraft.....
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On Mon. 14 Oct 1940 Poor weather limited German ability to attack sout.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 British submarine HMS Triad detected Italian subma.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 Italian submarine Foca sank while laying a minefie.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 German submarine U-93 sank British ship Hurunui of.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 US Marine Corps mobilized its reserve battalions,.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler noted that about half the Czechs in o.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 Captain Sadayoshi Yamada was named the commanding.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 Captain Matsuji Ijuin was named the commanding off.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 The German Luftwaffe launched 5 fighter sweeps tow.....
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On Tues. 15 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder, Wilhelm Keitel, Erhard.....
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On Wed. 16 Oct 1940 Battleship King George V departed Newcastle upon T.....
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On Wed. 16 Oct 1940 British motor torpedo boat MTB-106 hit a mine and.....
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On Wed. 16 Oct 1940 Aircraft of British carrier HMS Furious bombed Ger.....
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On Wed. 16 Oct 1940 Aviation engineers Ichiro Sekine (Nakajima), Joji.....
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On Wed. 16 Oct 1940 German authorities ordered the establishment of Wa.....
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On Wed. 16 Oct 1940 Two ARP rescue workers who helped themselves to
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On Wed. 16 Oct 1940 Heavy fog during the day limited operations, thus.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 At 1052 hours, German submarine U-38 sank Greek sh.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 German submarine U-48 fired 3 torpedoes at Allied.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 German submarine U-93 attacked Allied convoy OA-22.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 In the North Sea, German motor torpedo boats S-24.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 4 German destroyers and 6 torpedo boats departed f.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 A message from Joachim von Ribbentrop to Joseph St.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 The German Luftwaffe mounted four raids against so.....
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On Thurs. 17 Oct 1940 British minesweeper HMS Dundalk hit a mine 20 mile.....
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On Fri. 18 Oct 1940 Vichy France officially published the Statute of 4.....
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On Fri. 18 Oct 1940 German submarines attacked Allied convoy SC-7 all.....
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On Fri. 18 Oct 1940 Two British flying boats of No. 202 Squadron RAF s.....
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On Fri. 18 Oct 1940 German guns near Calais, France fired 10 shells at.....
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On Fri. 18 Oct 1940 Britain reopened the Burma Road, the over-land sup.....
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On Fri. 18 Oct 1940 Foggy weather limited German ability to attack sou.....
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On Sat. 19 Oct 1940 German submarines U-38, U-46, U-47, and two others.....
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On Sat. 19 Oct 1940 German submarines U-99, U-100, U-101, and U-123 co.....
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On Sat. 19 Oct 1940 British destroyer HMS Venetia hit a mine and sank.....
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On Sat. 19 Oct 1940 While escorting Romanian freighter Ingener N. Vlas.....
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On Sat. 19 Oct 1940 During the day, a German Ju 88 bomber was shot dow.....
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On Sat. 19 Oct 1940 Prime Minister Mackenzie King visiting a Canadian.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 During the night 7 British Wellington bombers atta.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 German submarines U-46, U-47, and U-100 attacked A.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 Orion and Komet were replenished by supply ship Ku.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 British destroyers HMS Gallant, HMS Griffin, and H.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 German submarine U-124 sank Norwegian ship Cubano.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 Italian BR20 bombers, Z1007 bombers, G50 fighters,.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 German guns near Calais, France fired 50 shells at.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 Werner Mölders was promoted to the rank of Ober.....
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On Sun. 20 Oct 1940 5 raids consisted of German fighters and fighter-b.....
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On Mon. 21 Oct 1940 Italian destroyers Manin, Sauro, Battisti, and Nul.....
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On Mon. 21 Oct 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMS Waveflower hit a.....
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On Mon. 21 Oct 1940 British motor torpedo boat MTB-17 hit a mine and s.....
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On Mon. 21 Oct 1940 German guns near Calais, France fired 6 shells at.....
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On Mon. 21 Oct 1940 Friedrich Ruge was awarded the Knight's Cross of t.....
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On Mon. 21 Oct 1940 Scir
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On Mon. 21 Oct 1940 Between 1100 and 1400 hours, heavy fog limited Ger.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 British Ambassador to Moscow attempted to distance.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 Aktion Burckel: 29,000 Jews in Alsace-Lorraine, Sa.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 Canadian destroyer HMCS Margaree of Allied convoy.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 British minesweeping trawlers HMT Joseph Button hi.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 Werner Mölders claimed his 50th victory......
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 Benito Mussolini set the date of the invasion of G.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 Heitaro Kimura was named the chief of staff of Ken.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 Joseph Stalin accepted Joachim von Ribbentrop's in.....
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On Tues. 22 Oct 1940 As the heavy fog dissipated in the afternoon, two.....
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On Wed. 23 Oct 1940 Ten WW1-era American destroyers were transferred t.....
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On Wed. 23 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler met with Francisco Franco on the Fran.....
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On Wed. 23 Oct 1940 Germans only mounted small raids against southern.....
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On Wed. 23 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco, Hendaye train s.....
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On Thurs. 24 Oct 1940 The British government declared that the daylight-.....
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On Thurs. 24 Oct 1940 Operation DNU: British battlecruisers HMS Hood and.....
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On Thurs. 24 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler met with Philippe P_tain and Pierre L.....
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On Thurs. 24 Oct 1940 British destroyer HMS Mendip suffered an accidenta.....
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On Thurs. 24 Oct 1940 During hte day, poor weather restricted German eff.....
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On Thurs. 24 Oct 1940 Philippe P_tain and Adolf Hitler, Montoire-sur-le-.....
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On Fri. 25 Oct 1940 US Navy began to mobilize its aviation arm......
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On Fri. 25 Oct 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Lord Inchcape hit.....
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On Fri. 25 Oct 1940 Three RAF Hudson bombers attacked German submarine.....
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On Fri. 25 Oct 1940 British gunboat HMS Aphis bombarded Italian troops.....
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On Fri. 25 Oct 1940 British bombers attacked Hamburg and Berlin in Ger.....
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On Fri. 25 Oct 1940 The Italian Navy formed the Forza Navale Speciale.....
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On Fri. 25 Oct 1940 16 Italian BR20M bombers attacked Felixstowe and H.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 Thunderbolt was commissioned into service......
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 Italy lodged a protest against Greece, citing its.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 British Ministry of Food subsidised fish and chip.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 The P-51 Mustang fighter, NA-73X, took its maiden.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 Hubert Lanz was given command of 1. Gebirgs-Divisi.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 German submarine U-28 hit British ship Matina 250.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 Japanese aircraft raided the CAMCO factory at Loiw.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 The German Luftwaffe conducted the longest night t.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 James Lacey shot down a German Bf 109 fighter over.....
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On Sat. 26 Oct 1940 The US Marine Corps organized a Marine Parachute D.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 Free French forces from Cameroon attacked Vichy Fr.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 Men of British destroyer HMS Broke was ordered to.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 Italian submarine Nani sank Swedish ship Meggie 70.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 Late in the evening, Italian ambassador in Athens.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 British intelligence intercepted a German radio me.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 Aircraft from HMS Eagle struck the Italian seaplan.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 5 raids of 50 to 60 German aircraft attacked Brita.....
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On Sun. 27 Oct 1940 Wasp in Guant
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 HMS Eagle patrolled the western coast of Greece......
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 HMS Edinburgh completed her refitting at Tyne, Eng.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 Pierre Laval became the Foreign Minister of Vichy.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 German raider Pinguin and auxilliary minelayer Pas.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 German submarine U-32 sunk British troop ship Empr.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 Greek leader Ioannis Metaxas rejected the Italian.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 Adolf Hitler traveled to Florence, Italy for a mee.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 At the Axis leaders' meeting in Florence, Italy, A.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain pledge.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 An additional 489,000 children had been evacuated.....
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On Mon. 28 Oct 1940 At 1300 and 1430 hours, German fighters conducted.....
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 The first British troops arrived at Suda Bay, Cret.....
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 Conscription, as allowed by the Selective Training.....
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 The full mobilization of the Italian Blackshirt un.....
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 German submarine U-31 sank the drifting wreck of B.....
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 German submarine U-29 made made rendezvous with Ge.....
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 Werner Mölders claimed his 54th victory......
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 The British RAF conducted the 25th raid on Berlin,.....
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 Scir
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On Tues. 29 Oct 1940 German bombers conducted several raids in southern.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 RAF Bomber Command received orders to begin area b.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 German submarine U-32 attacked British ship Balzac.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 British destroyer HMS Fearless collided with Briti.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 British destroyer HMS Sturdy ran aground at Tiree,.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 Adolf Galland claimed his 50th victory......
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 Wing Commander J. R. O'Sullivan was ordered to for.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 The German Luftwaffe launched two raids over south.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 James Lacey shot down a German Bf 109 fighter and.....
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On Wed. 30 Oct 1940 USS R-5 was assigned to US Submarine Division 42 a.....
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On Thurs. 31 Oct 1940 HMCS Trillium was commissioned into service with L.....
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On Thurs. 31 Oct 1940 As the Italian invasion of Greece began to slow to.....
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On Thurs. 31 Oct 1940 German submarine U-124 sank British ship Rutland 3.....
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On Thurs. 31 Oct 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Widder arrived at Br.....
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On Thurs. 31 Oct 1940 RAF bombers attacked Naples, Italy.....
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On Thurs. 31 Oct 1940 According to a British Air Ministry pamphlet publi.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 11,000 Italian mountain troops marched for the pas.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 The British mined the Bay of Biscay off France......
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 German bombers attacked British shipping in the Th.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 German submarine U-124 sank British ship Empire Bi.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 British sloop HMS Black Swan was damaged by a mine.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 Adolf Galland was promoted to the rank of Oberstle.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commandant of the Jap.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 Rear Admiral Keizo Tanimoto replaced Rear Admiral.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 The German Oflag IV-C prisoner of war camp at the.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 Captain Shunji Izaki was named the commanding offi.....
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On Fri. 01 Nov 1940 During this month, Japanese Navy began receiving t.....
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On Sat. 02 Nov 1940 British destroyer HMS Antelope attacked German sub.....
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On Sat. 02 Nov 1940 Turkey moved 37 divisions to the Bulgarian border.....
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On Sat. 02 Nov 1940 British destroyer HMS Intrepid hit a mine off Hart.....
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On Sat. 02 Nov 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Rinovia hit a min.....
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On Sat. 02 Nov 1940 HMS Hermes completed her repairs at Simon's Town,.....
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On Sun. 03 Nov 1940 In the Pindus Mountains in northern Greece, Greek.....
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On Sun. 03 Nov 1940 British submarine HMS Sturgeon sank Danish ship Si.....
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On Sun. 03 Nov 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British ship Casanare 1.....
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On Sun. 03 Nov 1940 The British capital of London experienced the firs.....
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On Mon. 04 Nov 1940 German submarine U-99 attacked British armed merch.....
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On Mon. 04 Nov 1940 The Italian Julia Division continued to be trapped.....
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On Mon. 04 Nov 1940 Adolf Hitler met with his top military leaders in.....
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On Tues. 05 Nov 1940 German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer approached.....
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On Tues. 05 Nov 1940 Roosevelt was re-elected as President of the Unite.....
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On Tues. 05 Nov 1940 Free French troops captured Lambar_n_, French Equa.....
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On Tues. 05 Nov 1940 German submarine U-99 sank British tanker Scottish.....
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On Tues. 05 Nov 1940 Greek cavalry troops under General Georgios Stanot.....
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On Tues. 05 Nov 1940 While at Alexandria, Egypt, a leak was found in th.....
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On Tues. 05 Nov 1940 Hermann Göring issued an order to loot the art.....
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On Wed. 06 Nov 1940 The British promise of financial aid to Greece was.....
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On Wed. 06 Nov 1940 The British Under-Secretary for War announced meas.....
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On Wed. 06 Nov 1940 Italian submarine Comandante Fa
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On Wed. 06 Nov 1940 British destroyer HMS Encounter misidentified Brit.....
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On Wed. 06 Nov 1940 British minesweeping whaler HMS Sevra hit a mine a.....
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On Wed. 06 Nov 1940 The Greek 2nd Army Corps mounted another attack on.....
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On Wed. 06 Nov 1940 Three Canadian prisoners of war who had previously.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 Submarine Gar was launched, sponsored by the wife.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 Krupp factories were bombed again by the RAF......
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 Vichy French submarine Poncelet fired a torpedo at.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 Free French minesweeping trawler Poulmic hit a min.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 British submarine HMS Swordfish hit a mine and san.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 Seven German torpedo boats were dispatched from Tr.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 British ship Cambridge hit a naval mine laid by Ge.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 Rammed by British destroyer HMS Encounter in an ep.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT William Wesney hi.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 US diplomat Tyler Kent, a cipher clerk at the Amer.....
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On Thurs. 07 Nov 1940 Wellington bomber at Vickers-Armstrongs factory, B.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 After failing to expand from the Kalamas River bri.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 RAF bombed Munich, Germany, narrowly missing Hitle.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 French Legionnaires and colonial troops from Seneg.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 Operation Crack: Aircraft of British carrier HMS A.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 British tug HMS Muria hit a mine and sank off the.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 German bombers attacked a convoy in the Thames Est.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 German bombers damaged Swedish ship Vingaland 300.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 Dutch submarine O-22 disappeared in the North Sea.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 RAF Station Takali was officially operational on M.....
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On Fri. 08 Nov 1940 Greek soldier posing with a wrecked Italian L3/33.....
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On Sat. 09 Nov 1940 Neville Chamberlain passed away of cancer......
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On Sat. 09 Nov 1940 Free French froces entered Libreville, Gabon, Fren.....
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On Sat. 09 Nov 1940 Sebastiano Visconti Prasca was relieved as command.....
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On Sat. 09 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis, disguised.....
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On Sat. 09 Nov 1940 Swedish ship Vingaland, damaged on the previous da.....
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On Sat. 09 Nov 1940 American ship City Of Rayville hit a naval mine (l.....
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On Sat. 09 Nov 1940 Installation of a gun of No. 2 turret of battleshi.....
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On Sun. 10 Nov 1940 British anti-submarine trawler HMS Kingston Alalit.....
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On Sun. 10 Nov 1940 In northern Greece, Greek troops continued to push.....
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On Sun. 10 Nov 1940 British monitor HMS Terror departed Malta for Suda.....
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On Sun. 10 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis, disguised.....
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On Sun. 10 Nov 1940 British gunboat HMS Aphis shelled Italian position.....
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On Sun. 10 Nov 1940 The Director of the US Marine Corps Reserve formal.....
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On Sun. 10 Nov 1940 The first Avro Manchester Mk. 1 bomber to be deliv.....
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On Mon. 11 Nov 1940 At 2300 hours, 21 Swordfish aircraft of British ca.....
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On Mon. 11 Nov 1940 At 1330 hours, British radar at Essex, England pic.....
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On Mon. 11 Nov 1940 British destroyer HMS Vega hit a mine and was badl.....
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On Mon. 11 Nov 1940 British corvette Rhododendron attacked German subm.....
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On Mon. 11 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis stopped Bri.....
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On Mon. 11 Nov 1940 The US army took delivery of its first Jeep. The o.....
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On Mon. 11 Nov 1940 No. 640 Squadron RAF recorded the first Beaufighte.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 The 19 surviving Swordfish aircraft of the 21 sent.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 Vichy French forces in Gabon, French Equitorial Af.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 Adolf Hitler issued Directive 18 for the capture o.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov arrived in Berlin,.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 Adolf Hitler issued a directive to the German army.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 Having realized that his staff made plans to move.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 A captured German airman warned of a planned bombi.....
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On Tues. 12 Nov 1940 Conte di Cavour sinking in Taranto harbor, 12 Nov.....
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On Wed. 13 Nov 1940 Hitler, Ribbentrop, and Molotov continued their me.....
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On Wed. 13 Nov 1940 By the end of the day, Greek troops had pushed mos.....
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On Wed. 13 Nov 1940 German submarine U-137 torpedoed and sank British.....
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On Wed. 13 Nov 1940 British submarine HMS Tigris sank French trawler C.....
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On Wed. 13 Nov 1940 Italian bombers damaged British destroyer HMS Deco.....
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On Wed. 13 Nov 1940 Garland was seriously damaged by a storm while esc.....
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On Wed. 13 Nov 1940 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California,.....
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On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 As Greek troops began to cross into Albanian borde.....
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On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 German bombers raided Alexandria, Egypt, sinking E.....
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On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 The first contingent of aircrews to graduate from.....
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On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 A massive night time raid on Coventry, England by.....
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On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 Neville Chamberlain's funeral was held at Collegia.....
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On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 Greek Canon de 85 mod
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of admir.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 A convoy of 5 transports, escorted by British wars.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 German submarine U-65 sank British ship Kohinur 20.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 British tug HMS Guardsman hit a mine and sank in t.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Hiroaki Abe became the commanding officer of Japan.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Vice Admiral Teruhisa Komatsu succeeded Vice Admir.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 A heavy British air raid on Hamburg, Germany cause.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Akagi was assigned as special duty ship in Yokosuk.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Tenryu began a period of modernization, replacing.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Captain Tamotsu Takama was named the commanding of.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Vice Admiral Tsunejiro Ishii was made the commandi.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 Rear Admiral Shigeki Ando was named the chief of s.....
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On Fri. 15 Nov 1940 The Warsaw ghetto in Poland was sealed from the re.....
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On Sat. 16 Nov 1940 American destroyer Punkett intercepted German tank.....
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On Sat. 16 Nov 1940 The Greek 3rd Army Corps broke through the Italian.....
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On Sat. 16 Nov 1940 German submarine U-65 sank British ship Fabian wit.....
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On Sat. 16 Nov 1940 German submarine U-137 sank British ship Planter 3.....
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On Sat. 16 Nov 1940 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Arsenal collide.....
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On Sat. 16 Nov 1940 Heinz Guderian was named commander of Panzer Group.....
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On Sat. 16 Nov 1940 RAF bombers attacked Hamburg, Germany again for th.....
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 Adolf Galland claimed his 53rd, 54th, and 55th vic.....
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 British Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding was removed.....
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 German submarine U-137 attacked Allied convoy HG-4.....
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 Greek 3rd Army Corps engaged in heavy fighting wit.....
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Wei
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 Pierre Barjot was assigned to Marseille, France to.....
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 Overnight, RAF bombers raided Hamburg, Germany for.....
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On Sun. 17 Nov 1940 British aircraft carrier HMS Argus launched 12 Hur.....
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On Mon. 18 Nov 1940 HMS Edinburgh departed Faslane Naval Base on the C.....
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On Mon. 18 Nov 1940 Overnight, RAF bombers raided Gelsenkirchen in the.....
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On Mon. 18 Nov 1940 German submarine U-65 sank British tanker Congonia.....
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On Mon. 18 Nov 1940 Italian submarine Baracca sank British ship Lilian.....
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On Mon. 18 Nov 1940 British cruiser HMS York departed Port Said, Egypt.....
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On Mon. 18 Nov 1940 An American-built B-24 Liberator bomber en route t.....
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On Tues. 19 Nov 1940 357 German aircraft bombed Birmingham, England, Un.....
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On Tues. 19 Nov 1940 Italian troops were driven across the Kalamas Rive.....
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On Tues. 19 Nov 1940 RAF bombers attacked the Skoda armament plant at P.....
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On Tues. 19 Nov 1940 German bombers attacked an Allied convoy in the No.....
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On Tues. 19 Nov 1940 Noor Inayat Khan joined the British Women's Auxili.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 Hungarian Prime Minister Teleki and Foreign Minist.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 British cruiser HMS York delivered anti-aircraft g.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 British bombers sank Italian ship Ardita III in th.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 Italian torpedo boat Confienza sank after collidin.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin stopped Brit.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 116 German bombers dropped 132 tons of high explos.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 No. 261 Squadron RAF was transferred to RAF Statio.....
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On Wed. 20 Nov 1940 Greek troops in Kor
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On Thurs. 21 Nov 1940 German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Köln, a.....
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On Thurs. 21 Nov 1940 Greek troops defeated the Italian IX Army and capt.....
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On Thurs. 21 Nov 1940 The German 6th Army exercised a simulated invasion.....
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On Thurs. 21 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin attacked Bri.....
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On Thurs. 21 Nov 1940 German submarine U-103 fired torpedoes from a surf.....
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On Thurs. 21 Nov 1940 A German aircraft bombed the British Government Co.....
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On Thurs. 21 Nov 1940 The British No. 2 Commando Battalion was redesigna.....
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On Fri. 22 Nov 1940 Italian 9th Army was defeated in Greece.....
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On Fri. 22 Nov 1940 British destroyers HMS Faulknor and HMS Forester a.....
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On Fri. 22 Nov 1940 German submarine U-123 sank British ship Cree 365.....
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On Fri. 22 Nov 1940 British motor launch ML.127 hit a mine and sank in.....
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On Fri. 22 Nov 1940 Italian aircraft bombed Alexandria, Egypt, damagin.....
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On Fri. 22 Nov 1940 The first execution by shooting took place at Ausc.....
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On Sat. 23 Nov 1940 German submarine U-100 attacked Allied convoy SC-1.....
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On Sat. 23 Nov 1940 German submarine U-123 attacked Allied convoy OB-2.....
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On Sat. 23 Nov 1940 German bombers attacked Southampton, England, Unit.....
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On Sat. 23 Nov 1940 Japanese 11th Army began to prepare for an offensi.....
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On Sat. 23 Nov 1940 Ion Antonescu of Romania signed the Tripartite Pac.....
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On Sat. 23 Nov 1940 Nachi arrived at Sasebo, Japan Tabular Record of M.....
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On Sat. 23 Nov 1940 It was announced in the United States that Admiral.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 Formidable was commissioned into service......
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer stopped Britis.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka of Slovakia signed the.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 The British Treasury canceled the bank holiday Box.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 German destroyers Galster, Lody, and Beitzen depar.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Amethyst hit a.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 German bombers dropped 156 tons of high explosive.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 After dark and into the next date, aircraft from H.....
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On Sun. 24 Nov 1940 Operation Collar: Allied convoy ME4, with 3 mercha.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 During the night 5 British aircraft attacked battl.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruisers Orion and Komet sto.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 A Hitler decree (the basic law of social housing c.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 Jewish paramilitary group Irgun destroyed British.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Conquistador coll.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Kennymore hit a m.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 British motor launch ML-111 hit a mine and sank 10.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 British submarine HMS Talisman disabled a German t.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 Japanese 11th Army launched an offensive in Hubei.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 Operation Collar: British Royal Navy Force H under.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 The prototype of the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito u.....
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On Mon. 25 Nov 1940 A lance corporal of the British Army East Surrey R.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 10 more old US Navy destroyers were handed over to.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 German aircraft torpedoed and sank Free French arm.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 Lord Rothermere, the proprietor of the Daily Mail.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 James Lacey was awarded a Bar to his Distinguished.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 Nachi departed Sasebo, Japan for Pescadores Island.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 Eight Swordfish aircraft from British aircraft car.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 Operation Collar: Aircraft from British aircraft c.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 The British 27th Armoured Brigade was established,.....
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On Tues. 26 Nov 1940 No. 826 and No. 829 Squadrons of the British Fleet.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruisers Orion and Komet sto.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 German submarine U-95 sank British ship Irene Mari.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 German submarine U-104 damaged British tanker Char.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 German submarine U-103 sank British ship Glenmoor.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 Chinese 27th, 31st, and 44th Divisions counteratta.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 Battle of Spartivento: At 1000 hours, spotter airc.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 In Romania, the ruling party Iron Guard arrests an.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 Kichisaburo Nomura was named the Japanese Ambassad.....
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On Wed. 27 Nov 1940 Vittorio Veneto firing on British ships, Battle of.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 German Reserve Police Battalion 101 was deployed t.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Manx Prince hit a.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 German submarine U-104 disappeared off the norther.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 German submarine U-103 sank Greek ship Mount Athos.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 German submarine U-95 attacked Norwegian ship Ring.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 Italian destroyers Pigafetta, Da Recco, Pessagno,.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 Flight Lieutenant John Dundas of No. 609 squadron.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 Lieutenant General Waichiro Sonobe ordered the Jap.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 Captain Tokuji Mori was named the commanding offic.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 Operation Collar: British Royal Navy Force H hande.....
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On Thurs. 28 Nov 1940 German Luftwaffe bombers attacked Liverpool, Engla.....
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On Fri. 29 Nov 1940 General Freyberg's British and New Zealand troops.....
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On Fri. 29 Nov 1940 Draft plan issued by German military leaders for t.....
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On Fri. 29 Nov 1940 German destroyers Galster, Lody, and Beitzen depar.....
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On Fri. 29 Nov 1940 New Zealand cruiser HMNZS Leander bombarded a fact.....
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On Fri. 29 Nov 1940 Italian submarine Delfino attacked Greek destroyer.....
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On Fri. 29 Nov 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Calverton hit a m.....
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On Fri. 29 Nov 1940 HMS Hermes arrived at Freetown, South Africa......
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On Sat. 30 Nov 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin attacked Bri.....
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On Sat. 30 Nov 1940 German submarine U-101 sank British ship Aracataca.....
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On Sat. 30 Nov 1940 British motor torpedo boats MTB.30 and MTB.31 atta.....
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On Sat. 30 Nov 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Chestnut hit a mi.....
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On Sat. 30 Nov 1940 In Hubei Province, China, Chinese troops halted th.....
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On Sat. 30 Nov 1940 Wang Jingwei of the Japanese-sponsored puppet gove.....
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On Sat. 30 Nov 1940 Wang Jingwei signing an agreement with the Japanes.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer sank British s.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 Italian submarine Argo torpedoed Canadian destroye.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 Werner Mölders claimed his 55th victory......
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 Norwegian troop ship Oslofjord hit a mine and sank.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 German submarine U-37 sank British ship Palmella 2.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 Allied convoy HX-90 became undefended 340 miles we.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 German submarine U-101 sank the already-damaged Br.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 Major General Thomas Holcomb was appointed to a se.....
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 Adolf Galland was promoted to the rank of Oberst......
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On Sun. 01 Dec 1940 Romania established diplomatic relationship with t.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 German submarine U-99 attacked British armed merch.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 German submarine U-37 sank Swedish ship Gwalia at.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 German submarine U-43 sank British ship Pacific Pr.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 German submarine U-99 sank Norwegian ship Samnange.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 Overnight, German bombers bombed Britstol, England.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 Crown Prince Yi Un was promoted to the rank of lie.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 HMS Hermes made rendezvous with light cruiser HMS.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 British Admiral of the Fleet William Boyle (Earl o.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma was named the co.....
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On Mon. 02 Dec 1940 Henry Arnold was promoted to the permanent rank of.....
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On Tues. 03 Dec 1940 Greek troops pushed Italian troops back 15 miles,.....
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On Tues. 03 Dec 1940 Allied convoy HX-90 was attacked by German submari.....
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On Tues. 03 Dec 1940 British destroyer HMS Campbeltown collided with Br.....
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On Tues. 03 Dec 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Kormoran departed Go.....
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On Tues. 03 Dec 1940 51 German aircraft bombed Birmingham, England, Uni.....
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On Wed. 04 Dec 1940 F4F-3 Wildcat fighters entered service with the US.....
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On Wed. 04 Dec 1940 Greek forces captured Përmet (capturing 500 Ita.....
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On Wed. 04 Dec 1940 German submarine U-37 sank Swedish ship Daphne 15.....
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On Wed. 04 Dec 1940 62 German bombers dropped 77 tons of high explosiv.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 Battleship Bismarck completed her trials in the Ba.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 Scottish Independent Labour Party politician John.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 British destroyer HMS Cameron was damaged by Germa.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Thor and British arm.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Sunfish sank Finnish ship Os.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 British motor torpedo boats MTB.32, MTB.29, and MT.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 Italian submarine Argo sank British ship Silverpin.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 Italian torpedo boat Calipso hit a mine and sank 6.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 Hitler received the military plans for an invasion.....
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On Thurs. 05 Dec 1940 Portrait of Lieutenant General Rikichi Ando, 5 Dec.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 German armed merchant cruisers Komet and Orion sto.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 Santi Quaranta, Albania was taken by Greek forces.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 Italian General Cavallero replaced Marshal Badogli.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 Vichy France held a War Guilt trial, indicting Blu.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 Captured (by German armed merchant cruiser Atlanti.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Regulus hit a mine and sank.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Triton attacked and damaged.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 German submarine U-43 sank Norwegian ship Skrim 40.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 German bombers attacked Bristol, England, United K.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 British 7th Armoured Division, British 16th Infant.....
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On Fri. 06 Dec 1940 The keel of submarine Flying Fish was laid down by.....
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On Sat. 07 Dec 1940 Battleship Bismarck entered the Kiel Canal......
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On Sat. 07 Dec 1940 Admiral Hipper departed Kiel, Germany for an anti-.....
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On Sat. 07 Dec 1940 Orion and Komet sank the ship Vinni off Nauru; sho.....
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On Sat. 07 Dec 1940 The Fairey Barracuda dive bomber took its first fl.....
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On Sat. 07 Dec 1940 The 100th Beaufighter aircraft rolled off the prod.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 Battleship Bismarck exited the Kiel Canal......
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Orion sank the ships.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 British light cruiser Diomede intercepted German f.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 Franco determined Spain was not ready to enter the.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 The British launched Operation Compass from Egypt,.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 German submarine U-103 sank British liner Calabria.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 German submarine U-140 sank Finnish sail ship Pena.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 British destroyer HMS Windsor hit and mine off Ald.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Komet sank Komata of.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 Greek troops captured Gjirokastra and Delvinë i.....
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On Sun. 08 Dec 1940 Inigo Campioni was relieved of command with the It.....
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On Mon. 09 Dec 1940 Beginning at 0500 hours, Allied artillery and airc.....
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On Mon. 09 Dec 1940 German submarine U-103 sank British ship Empire Ja.....
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On Mon. 09 Dec 1940 The Special Landing Operation No. 2 exercise, cond.....
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On Mon. 09 Dec 1940 The French Groupe Occasionnel squadron was formed.....
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On Mon. 09 Dec 1940 Battleship Bismarck arrived at Hamburg, Germany......
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On Tues. 10 Dec 1940 Georg von Bismarck was named the commanding office.....
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On Tues. 10 Dec 1940 Before dawn, colonial troops of the Libyan 1st Div.....
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On Tues. 10 Dec 1940 A shell fired randomly across the English Channel.....
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On Tues. 10 Dec 1940 USS R-1 departed Groton, Connecticut, United State.....
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On Tues. 10 Dec 1940 USS R-5 departed New London, Connecticut, United S.....
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On Wed. 11 Dec 1940 HMS King George V was commissioned into service......
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On Wed. 11 Dec 1940 German freighter Rhein, already being monitored by.....
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On Wed. 11 Dec 1940 British 7th Armored Brigade attacked Buq Buq, Egyp.....
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On Wed. 11 Dec 1940 German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy HX-92.....
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On Wed. 11 Dec 1940 German submarine U-94 sank British ship Empire Sta.....
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On Wed. 11 Dec 1940 278 German aircraft attacked Birmingham, England,.....
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 Maxim Gorkiy was commissioned into service......
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 Hungary and Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Eterna.....
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 Philip Kerr passed away......
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 British 7th Armored Brigade moved into the desert.....
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy HX-92.....
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 Philippe P_tain received an invitation from Adolf.....
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 Vichy-France established diplomatic relationship w.....
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 HMS Edinburgh arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, Uni.....
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On Thurs. 12 Dec 1940 British monitoring stations detected X Verfahren r.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 Führer Directive 20 was issued to prepare for O.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 German Army units began redeployment in preparatio.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 British 4th Armored Brigade crossed the desert bet.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Truant sank Italian ship Seb.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 German submarine U-43 torpedoed and damaged Britis.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 HMS Manchester arrived in Britain from the Mediter.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 Douglas Bader was awarded the Distinguished Flying.....
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On Fri. 13 Dec 1940 Pierre Laval was dismissed as the Vice President o.....
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On Sat. 14 Dec 1940 Plutonium-238 was first produced and isolated......
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On Sat. 14 Dec 1940 Philippe P_tain declined Adolf Hitler's invitation.....
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On Sun. 15 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Thunderbolt sank Italian sub.....
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On Sun. 15 Dec 1940 Italian troops were driven out of Egypt by the Bri.....
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On Sun. 15 Dec 1940 Free French submarine Narval hit a mine and sank i.....
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On Sun. 15 Dec 1940 German motor torpedo boat S.58 sank Danish ship N......
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On Sun. 15 Dec 1940 The remains of Napoleon II were relocated to the L.....
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On Sun. 15 Dec 1940 Pierre Laval was freed from imprisonment......
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On Sun. 15 Dec 1940 16 German He 111 bombers dropped 11,520 B1 E1 ince.....
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On Mon. 16 Dec 1940 Korvettenkapit_n Adalbert Schneider became the act.....
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On Mon. 16 Dec 1940 134 RAF bombers attacked Mannheim, Germany in reta.....
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On Mon. 16 Dec 1940 British 4th Armoured Brigade captured Sidi Omar, E.....
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On Mon. 16 Dec 1940 German submarine U-37 attacked wooden Spanish ship.....
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On Mon. 16 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Truant sank Italian tanker B.....
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On Mon. 16 Dec 1940 Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa was named the governor-ge.....
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On Mon. 16 Dec 1940 US Marine Corps Reserve aviation units were disban.....
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On Tues. 17 Dec 1940 British Home Office announced the hanging death of.....
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On Tues. 17 Dec 1940 German seaplane base on Sylt Island was bombed......
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On Tues. 17 Dec 1940 The British government announced a ration increase.....
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On Tues. 17 Dec 1940 British destroyer HMS Acheron hit a mine and sank.....
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On Tues. 17 Dec 1940 British monitor HMS Terror and gunboat HMS Ladybir.....
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On Tues. 17 Dec 1940 Air Vice Marshal Richard Saul became the commandin.....
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On Tues. 17 Dec 1940 President Roosevelt held a press conference in Was.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 German cruiser Admiral Scheer captured British shi.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 Führer Directive 21 was issued, confirming the.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Tuna sank French tug Chassir.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 British minesweeping trawler HMT Refundo was damag.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 German submarine U-96 damaged Dutch tanker Pendrec.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 German submarine U-100 sank British ship Napier St.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 Italian submarine Veniero damaged Greek ship Anast.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 Italian cruisers Eugenio and Montecuccoli and dest.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 British submarine HMS Triton sank in the Otranto S.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, US Navy scout-bomber,.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 Otto Skorzeny departed the Netherlands for norther.....
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On Wed. 18 Dec 1940 Directive No. 21 Directive No. 21 Directive No. 21.....
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On Thurs. 19 Dec 1940 British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Warspite s.....
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On Thurs. 19 Dec 1940 German submarine U-37 mistakenly torpedoed and san.....
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On Thurs. 19 Dec 1940 British gunboat HMS Aphis bombarded Bardia, Libya.....
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On Thurs. 19 Dec 1940 Italian submarine Bagnolini sank British ship Amic.....
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On Thurs. 19 Dec 1940 Archbishop Sapieha of Krakow, Poland sent a letter.....
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On Thurs. 19 Dec 1940 British destroyers HMS Veteran and HMS Verity coll.....
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On Thurs. 19 Dec 1940 Matilda tank of the UK 7th Royal Tank Regiment in.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 15 British carrier aircraft from HMS Illustrious a.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 Italian submarine Calvi sank British ship Carlton.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 British destroyer Berkeley hit a mine in the River.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 US President Roosevelt named a four-member defense.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 Two Spitfire fighters of No. 66 Squadron from RAF.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 The British Royal Navy battleship, HMS Warspite, a.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 The Defense Committee of the Council of People's C.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 Liverpool, England, United Kingdom was bombed by t.....
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On Fri. 20 Dec 1940 A freshly-constructed wall across a street in the.....
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On Sat. 21 Dec 1940 Allied convoy MG1 departed Malta at noon for Gibra.....
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On Sat. 21 Dec 1940 German raiders Komet and Orion and support ship Ku.....
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On Sat. 21 Dec 1940 German submarine U-65 attacked Panamanian tanker C.....
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On Sat. 21 Dec 1940 Luftwaffe bombers struck Liverpool, England, Unite.....
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On Sat. 21 Dec 1940 RAF bombers bombed Porto Marghera, Italy, hitting.....
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On Sat. 21 Dec 1940 The rear echelon of the newly established US Marin.....
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On Sat. 21 Dec 1940 Berlin, Germany suffered minor damage from a Briti.....
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On Sun. 22 Dec 1940 Italian submarine Serpente attacked Allied convoy.....
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On Sun. 22 Dec 1940 270 Luftwaffe bombers attacked Manchester, England.....
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On Sun. 22 Dec 1940 Winston Churchill replaced Anthony Eden with Parli.....
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On Sun. 22 Dec 1940 Himarë, Albania was captured by the Greek army......
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On Mon. 23 Dec 1940 British destroyer HMS Havock collided with battles.....
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On Mon. 23 Dec 1940 Greek submarine Papanikolis sank the Italian motor.....
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On Mon. 23 Dec 1940 In Albania, Greek forces pushed back Italian troop.....
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On Mon. 23 Dec 1940 Light carrier Hosho was deemed not suitable for mo.....
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On Mon. 23 Dec 1940 In Libya, Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Afri.....
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On Mon. 23 Dec 1940 Anthony Eden was appointed Foreign Secretary of th.....
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On Mon. 23 Dec 1940 British Lord Haw Haw warned of a second night of b.....
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On Tues. 24 Dec 1940 German cruiser Admiral Hipper detected Allied conv.....
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On Tues. 24 Dec 1940 German submarine U-65 sank British tanker British.....
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On Tues. 24 Dec 1940 German 1st Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron attacked a.....
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On Tues. 24 Dec 1940 Greek submarine Papanikolis sank the 3,952-ton tro.....
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On Tues. 24 Dec 1940 The US 1st Marine Aircraft Wing completed its tran.....
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On Wed. 25 Dec 1940 German Admiral Wilhelm Meisel aboard cruiser Admir.....
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On Wed. 25 Dec 1940 Two FAA Martlet I fighters of No. 804 Squadron RAF.....
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On Thurs. 26 Dec 1940 Australian destroyer HMAS Waterhen stopped Italian.....
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On Thurs. 26 Dec 1940 British cruiser HMS Bonaventure intercepted German.....
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On Thurs. 26 Dec 1940 German submarine U-95 damaged British ship Waiotir.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 German cruiser Admiral Hipper arrived at Brest, Fr.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 Zuiho was commissioned into service Tabular Record.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 German armed merchant cruiser Komet arrived at Nau.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 Italian submarine Tazzoli sank British ship Ardanb.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 German submarine U-65 attacked Norwegian ship Risa.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 British ship Waiotira, damaged by German submarine.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 Erich Raedar met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germ.....
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On Fri. 27 Dec 1940 Broadside view of USS Wasp (Wasp-class) at anchor.....
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On Sat. 28 Dec 1940 Mussolini requested German aid against the Greeks.....
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On Sat. 28 Dec 1940 British monitor HMS Terror bombarded Bardia, Libya.....
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On Sat. 28 Dec 1940 German bombers attacked two destroyers under const.....
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On Sat. 28 Dec 1940 British destroyer HMS Valorous collided with mines.....
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On Sat. 28 Dec 1940 Carrier Zuiho at Yokosuka, Japan, 28 Dec 1940.....
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On Sun. 29 Dec 1940 Greek submarine Proteus attacked Italian ships Sar.....
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On Sun. 29 Dec 1940 In Libya, British aircraft bombed Bardia and airfi.....
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On Sun. 29 Dec 1940 US President Roosevelt broadcasted a fireside chat.....
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On Sun. 29 Dec 1940 244 German Luftwaffe bombers dropped 30,000 incend.....
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On Sun. 29 Dec 1940 In his broadcast to the American nation, President.....
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On Sun. 29 Dec 1940 25-Pounder Mark II gun of Sergeant Pearse of 1st B.....
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On Mon. 30 Dec 1940 HMAS Waterhen entered Port Taufiq on the Suez Cana.....
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On Mon. 30 Dec 1940 In Libya, RAF bombers continued to bomb Italian de.....
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On Mon. 30 Dec 1940 British anti-submarine trawler HMT Bandolero colli.....
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On Mon. 30 Dec 1940 Australian destroyer HMAS Voyager captured Italian.....
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On Mon. 30 Dec 1940 Destroyer HMS Venomous hit a mine off Liverpool, E.....
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On Mon. 30 Dec 1940 British ship Calcium hit a mine in the North Sea (.....
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On Mon. 30 Dec 1940 Battleship Iowa under construction, New York Navy.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 Captain Lindemann returned to Bismarck from his Ch.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 Allied merchant shipping sunk by German submarines.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 Greek submarine Katsonis sank Italian tanker Quint.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 RAF bombers attacked Vlorë, Albania......
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 RAF bombers attacked Rotterdam and Ijmuiden, the N.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 RAF bombers attacked the bridge over the Rhine Riv.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 British destroyer HMS Dainty stopped Italian schoo.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 German submarine U-38 sank Swedish ship Valparaiso.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 German submarine U-65 damaged British tanker Briti.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 HMS Hermes set sail for Simon's Town, South Africa.....
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On Tues. 31 Dec 1940 HMS Edinburgh arrived at Scapa Flow, Scotland, Uni.....
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USS Helena (CL-50) anchored in President Roads, Boston, Massachusetts
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Romanian Prime minister Gigurtu and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
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Port side view of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle
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64.429 men are evacuated from Dunkirk
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Flowers for the Queen prohibitted.
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