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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 time.
The Battle of Graveney Marsh, on the night of 27 September 1940 in Kent, England, was the last ground engagement involving an organized foreign force to take place on the mainland of Great Britain. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The fighting took place between the crew of a shot-down German Junkers Ju 88 A-1 bomber from KG 77 and a detachment of soldiers from the ...
1940 Newcastle upon Tyne North by-election; 1940 Newcastle upon Tyne West by-election; 1940 Northampton by-election; 1940 Norton Fitzwarren rail crash; 1940 Nottingham Central by-election; November 1940 Southampton by-election
Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland January 12, 1940. 1 February: The Japanese Diet announces a record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.; 5 February: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland.
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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.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1930 AD until 1949 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.