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On Mon. 26 Feb 1940 Soviet troops continued to attack t...

Viipuri, Finland

Date1940-02-26

Status coordinate No status yet

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On Mon. 26 Feb 1940 Soviet troops continued to attack toward Viipuri,.....

On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 HMS Howe was launched at Govan, Sc...

Govan, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date1940-04-09

Status coordinate The location is in this area

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On Tues. 09 Apr 1940 HMS Howe was launched at Govan, Scotland

A Wellington bomber built at the Vickers-Armstrongs fac...

Broughton, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Date1940-11-07

Status coordinate The location is in this area

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Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin

Bundestag, Berlin, Germany

Date1940-11-12

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Soviet-Finnish armistice

Vyborg, Russia

Date1940-03-13

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Soviet-Finnish armistice

Germans crossing the Meuse, 10 May 1940

Maastricht, Netherlands

Date1940-05-10

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Burning Belgium tank in Zwijndrecht

Zwijndrecht, Belgium

Date1940-05-19

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Burning Belgium tank in Zwijndrecht

Canadian boy chasing after his father

New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Date1940-10-01

Status coordinate Accuracy is approximately +/- 1 km

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Canadian boy chasing after his father

Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder, Wilhelm Keitel, Erhard Milc...

Berlin, Germany

Date1940-10-15

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Adolf Hitler, Erich Raeder, Wilhelm Keitel, Erhard Milch, and Friedrich Fromm

A London bus after falling into a massive bomb crater

Balham High Road, London, United Kingdom

Date1940-10-15

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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A London bus after falling into a massive bomb crater

German bombardement in Amsterdam

Blauwburgwal, Amsterdam

Date1940-05-11

Status coordinate Exact location

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German bombardement in Amsterdam

Menno ter Braak commited suicide

The Hague, Netherlands

Date1940-05-15

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Menno ter Braak commited suicide

Emanuel Boekman commited suicide

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Date1940-05-15

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Emanuel Boekman commited suicide

Willem Adriaan Bonger commited suicide

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Date1940-05-15

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Willem Adriaan Bonger commited suicide

Majoor Sas warning Dutch government for war

Binnenhof, The Hague, Netherlands

Date1940-05-04

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Majoor Sas warning Dutch government for war

Seyss-Inquart visit to Groningen

Grote Markt, Groningen, Netherlands

Date1940-06-29

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Seyss-Inquart visit to Groningen

Seyss-Inquart takes over power in The Netherlands

Hofvijver, Den Haag, Netherlands

Date1940-05-29

Status coordinate Exact location

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Seyss-Inquart takes over power in The Netherlands

Battle of The Hague

Hofvijver, Den Haag, Netherlands

Date1940-05-15

Status coordinate Exact location

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Start of the war in the Netherlands

Roermond, Netherlands

Date1940-05-09

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Start of the war in the Netherlands

Military operations centre in Harstad

Harstad, Norway

Date1940-04-14

Status coordinate The location is in a (the vicinity of a) city or town

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Military operations centre in Harstad

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Fred Vogels posted a comment in Flight of Mosquito VI HJ829 and Flying Officer S P Marlatt on 1943-11-11

Thanks for the update Tecwyn Pierce

Wednesday, 18 July 2018 07:02

Tecwyn Pierce posted a comment in Flight of Mosquito VI HJ829 and Flying Officer S P Marlatt on 1943-11-11

I'm not sure if this is a coincidence but I believe a Flying Officer Sholto Paton Marlatt, known as ...

Tuesday, 17 July 2018 23:30

Michael Kenny posted a comment in 17 Field Company RE building Bailey Pontoon Bridge over the River Orne

IWM Film shows this bridge with engineers working on it and the date of the film is 28 June 1944. Th...

Saturday, 14 July 2018 22:46

Donna posted a comment in Lancaster LL914

Sergeant A D Jones was my grand father and my nan was pregnant with my dad when he died in action. I...

Friday, 13 July 2018 23:36

Sandra Lynne Janzen posted a comment in Handley Page Halifax III (LV880 MH-C) on a mission to Tergnier on 1944-04-11

Mr. Keith, please email me, sljanzen at gmail dot com. I have a little information to share with you...

Wednesday, 11 July 2018 16:29

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Looking for information. My father (John L. "Jack" Francis) now deceased served with the 467th during WWII

467 Engineer Maintenance Company, Detachment B stayed at Mynydd Lliw Monmouthshire on 21 june 1944

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A new look on history

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Peter Muurman Monday, 11 June 2018 11:10

Wow that is dumb ignorant and ridiculous.

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Rob Banis Monday, 11 June 2018 15:07

What an ass holes

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Raymond Land Monday, 11 June 2018 16:53

Actually in a roundabout way D-Day was the beginning of our close relationship as within a year we would conquer Germany and be closely intertwined with them until today.

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Rob Christine Monday, 11 June 2018 23:12

OMG, this is unbelievable. If I hadn't just watched the video, I wouldn't have believed anyone could be that stupid.

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John Bowers Tuesday, 12 June 2018 23:52

Yikes

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Jamie O'Malley Wednesday, 13 June 2018 15:48

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Ebo van der Laan Thursday, 14 June 2018 18:34

Trump is the elected President of what? If you have no clue of your own history you clearly have no future

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Back to Normandy Strategic Bombing Campaign 1940-1944. A nice animation by IWM which I changed a little bit: https://vimeo.com/263555848

Strategic bombing campaign WWII

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Steve Knowles Thursday, 03 May 2018 10:23

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