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Child's ration book. 1 January – World War II: Britain calls up 2,000,000 19- to 27-year-olds for military service. 3 January – Unity Mitford, daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and fervent admirer of Adolf Hitler, having attempted suicide, returns to England from Germany (via Switzerland); she is carried down the gangplank of the cross-channel ferry at Folkestone on a ...
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A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.
Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 (81 P) Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 (90 P) Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 (138 P)
31 March – Britain pledges support to Poland in the event of an invasion. [6] 4 April – the Royal Armoured Corps is formed. 11 April – the Women's Royal Naval Service is re-established. [7] 27 April – the Military Training Act (coming into force 3 June) introduces conscription; men aged 20 and 21 must undertake six months military ...
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26 January – World War II: First United States troops for the European theatre arrive in the UK, at Belfast. [ 3 ] 29 January – radio programme Desert Island Discs first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme , presented by Roy Plomley ; Austrian-born revue performer Vic Oliver (the Prime Minister's son-in-law) is the first castaway. [ 4 ]