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1940 Football League War Cup: West Ham United Blackburn Rovers; 1 0; Date: 8 June 1940: Venue: Wembley Stadium, London: Attendance: 42,300: 1941 → . The 1940 ...
The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, lit. 'air battle for England') was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
The 1940–41 season was the second season of special wartime football in England during the Second World War.
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 ...
The Football League War Cup was an association football tournament held between 1939 and 1945. It aimed to fill the gap left in English football by the suspension of the FA Cup during the Second World War .
Wolves won the Football League War Cup in 1942, beating Sunderland 4–1. [23] The team featured a player named Eric Robinson, who was killed during a military training exercise soon afterwards. [24] In the 1940–1941 season Preston North End needed to win their last game against Liverpool to win the North Regional League title.
Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940, is the day on which a large-scale aerial battle in the Battle of Britain took place. [8] [10] [11] [12] [13]In June 1940, the Wehrmacht had conquered most of Western Europe and Scandinavia.
The game started on 19 September 1940, but the Germans decided that the sea was too rough to attempt a landing. The same happened the next day. The first two days of game time, therefore, consisted of air battles, movement of British units to the south coast, the launching of Operation Herbstreise , and embarkation of German units at the French ...