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July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1940 – World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
Date: 10 July – 31 October 1940 [nb 1] (3 months and 3 weeks) ... On 2 July, the day the armed forces were asked to start preliminary planning for an invasion ...
German naval command issued a memo noting that the mid-September 1940 date for an invasion of Britain as demanded by Hitler was possible, but recommended a postponement to May 1941. [ 6 ] Hitler told the military commander Alfred Jodl that the planned attack on the Soviet Union in the fall of 1940 was no longer logistically feasible and that it ...
Category: 1940 in the United States by month. 1 language. ... July 1940 events in the United States (3 P) September 1940 events in the United States (6 P)
Date: 4 July – 11 August 1940: ... After about a month of small night raids, on 10 July the ... (often only two or three days). Peewit was used for convoys on 21 ...
The service's destruction would deny the British their air superiority asset and feeling vulnerable to air attack might negotiate for peace. Throughout July and early August, the Germans made preparations for Adlertag. The date of the assault was postponed several times because of bad weather. Eventually, it was carried out on 13 August 1940.
The squadron was formed on 10 July 1940 at RAF Duxford. [1] It was the first RAF squadron to be raised crewed by foreign nationals, in this case escaped Czechoslovak pilots. Initially it had two Squadron Leaders: the British Douglas Blackwood [2] and the Czechoslovak Alexander Hess.
July 1940 events (4 C, 3 P) August 1940 events (4 C, 3 P) September 1940 events (4 C, 4 P) October 1940 events (4 C, 3 P) ... Category: 1940 by month.