Posts Tagged ‘19391945’
This Week in WWII – 3rd Week of October
1933
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp.
1938
German troops occupy the Sudetanland.
This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of October
1940
Germans postpone Operation Sea Lion until spring of 1941. Nighttime raids throughout London and Manchester and fifteen airfields attacked.
1942
First flight of the P-51 with the new Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Battle of Cape Esperance, off Guadalcanal, occurs.
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
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Read MoreFleet Air Arm: British Carrier Aviation, 1939-1945 – Aircraft Specials series (6085)
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Read MoreInferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
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Read MoreUSAAF Handbook, 1939-1945
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Read MoreHalstead and Colne Valley at War (1939-1945)
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