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This is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45. For a narrative history and bibliography of the home front see United Kingdom home front during World War II , as well as history of Scotland § Second World War 1939–45 and history of Northern Ireland § Second World War . [ 1 ]
Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1918–1941) Timeline of Sweden during World War II (1939–1945) Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II (1939–1945) Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II
Many of the maps of the Pacific region were printed by the US Army Map Service, while the UK was responsible for many of the European Theatre maps. Many of the US Navy charts were folded in envelopes and distributed to the air crews before a mission, and to be turned in when the mission was successfully completed.
At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939, the British Army was small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World War in 1914.
The Time line of the British Army 1900–1999 lists the conflicts and wars the British Army were involved in. Boxer Rebellion ended 1901; Anglo-Aro War 1901–1902; Second Boer War ended 1902; World War I 1914–1918; Easter Rising 1916; Third Afghan War 1919; Irish War of Independence 1919–1921; World War II 1939–1945; Greek civil war 1946 ...
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...
First-line Territorial Army The division was captured in France in 1940, and then reformed on 7 August 1940 by the redesignation of the 9th (Highland) Infantry Division in the United Kingdom. The division ended the war in Germany. [19] [172] 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division: Existing N/A UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany
In September 1939, the British Army was in process of expanding their anti-aircraft and mobile (including armoured) assets. Among these new changes was the formation of Anti-Aircraft Command which was formed on 1 April 1939, and the 1st Armoured Division formed in 1937.