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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 ...
19 – 28 June 1940 25,000 Channel Island refugees arrive in England. 30 June 1940 German occupation of the Channel Islands begins. July 1940 A further 60,000 schoolchildren evacuated from London and the Home Counties in the following 12 months. [6] 3 July 1940 Cardiff is bombed for the first time. 6 July 1940 Plymouth is bombed for the first ...
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 introduces the first peacetime conscription (this time for men between 21 and 35) in United States history. The Italian invasion of Egypt comes to a halt when approximately five Italian divisions set up defensively in a series of armed camps after advancing about 95 km (59 mi) to Sidi Barrani .
1940 PW Portsmouth to Wales: SD Iceland to River Clyde: military ferry service SG Southend-on-Sea to Grimsby: 1940 1940 SILVERTIP Newhaven, East Sussex to Dieppe, Seine-Maritime: ferry service TBC River Thames to Bristol Channel: 1944 1945 TM British Isles to Norway April 1940 May 1940 troop convoys TP Norway to British Isles May 1940 May 1940 ...
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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 ...
[2] [3] As part of a gradual rebranding of the SportsChannel networks that began that month, SportsChannel Ohio was rebranded as Fox Sports Ohio in January 1998. The channel was then rebranded as Fox Sports Net Ohio in 2000, as part of a collective brand modification of the FSN networks under the "Fox Sports Net" banner; subsequently in 2004 ...
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.