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Welcome to www.worldwar-2.net!
The
modern world is still living with the consequences of World
War 2, the most titanic conflict in history. 70
years ago on September 1st 1939, Germany invaded Poland without
warning
sparking the start of World War Two.
By
the evening of September 3rd, Britain and France were at war with
Germany and within a week, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and
South
Africa had also joined the war. The world had been plunged into
its second world war in 25 years. Six long and bloody years
of total
war, fought over many thousand of square kilometres followed. From
the Hedgerows of Normandy to the streets of Stalingrad, the
icy
mountains of Norway to the sweltering deserts of Libya, the insect
infested jungles of Burma to the coral reefed islands of the
pacific.
On land, sea and in the air, Poles fought Germans, Italians fought
Americans and Japanese fought Australians in a conflict which
was
finally settled with the use of nuclear weapons. World War 2 involved
every major world power in a war for global domination and at
its
end,
more than 60 million people had lost their lives and most of Europe
and large parts of Asia lay in ruins.
I hope you will enjoy viewing
worldwar-2.net
and find its information both
helpful and interesting. The
website includes an exhaustive day by day timeline,
covering every event
that occured during World
War 2, by military theatre and in chronological order from 1939
through to 1945, which gives a fascinating insight into the
most devastating
war in our history.
quot;My strength has now
been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be
able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not
indefinitely. quot;
Sir Hugh Dowding
RAF Fighter Command
May 1940
quot;We must be very careful
not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory.
War's are not won by evacuations. quot;
Winston
Churchill
To Parliament
4th June 1940
quot;Dunkirk has fallen...
with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers!
My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed
me. quot;
Adolf Hitler
Order of the Day
5th June 1940
23rd May 1940
Heavy
fighting around Boulogne. Units of the German 6th Army cross
the Scheldt river at Oudenarde in Belgium. Sir Oswald Mosley
and other British fascists arrested. 76 IRA men arrested
in Northern Ireland.
24th May 1940
Hitler
halts Panzer drive on Dunkirk. Infantry units of 19th Panzer
Korps storm the citadel of Boulogne and take 5,000 British
and French prisoners. The French fortress of Maubeuge surrenders,
while 6th Army captures Ghent and Tournai in Belgium and
St Omer in North-eastern France. The first British civilian
bomb casualties are reported. Luftwaffe sink destroyer Wessex
off Calais.
25th May 1940
The
British garrison of Calais rejects a German call for surrender.
15 French generals relieved of their commands. Trade Union
executives accept Nye Bevan #146;s manpower mobilisation
plan, setting up Labour Supply
Board and Production Council.
26th May 1940
Operation
'Dynamo' the evacuation of British, French and Belgian troops
from Dunkirk begins. Under the command of Admiral Bertram
Ramsay, hundreds of naval, commercial and private vessels
participate in this most desperate rescue attempt. Calais
falls to the Germans as they advance towards Dunkirk after
Hitler's stop order is rescinded. General Sir John Dill is
appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Sir Edmund
Ironside becomes C-in-C, Home Defence. Empire Day in Britain
is declared as a national day of prayer. Coastal towns from
Great Yarmouth to Folkestone are declared evacuation areas.
27th May 1940
British
position in Flander #146;s worsens as King Leopold of Belgium
surrenders the remnants of his Army. The British sugar ration
is reduced from 12oz to 8oz per head. Japanese Premier Admiral
Yonai forms #145;Inner Cabinet #146; with ministers for
Foreign Affairs,
War and the Navy.
28th May 1940
Belgium
formally surrenders to the Germans. The British and French
reject capitulation and continue the evacuation and rearguard
actions at Dunkirk. French mountain troops capture the port
of Narvik,
forcing the German defenders (Gebirgsj auml;ger units and crews of sunk destroyers)
into the
surrounding hills and towards the safety of the Swedish border and internment.
29th May 1940
German 6th Army takes Lille, Ostend
and Ypres in western Flander #8217;s, Belgium. Luftwaffe activity increases
as Hitler orders the Panzers to be switched south ready for main battle
of France. 47,300 British and French troops are evacuated from
Dunkirk today. The British
destroyer HMS Wakeful is hit and sunk by a torpedo from the
German E-boat S30. HMS Grafton which was nearby try's to
rescue the sailors from HMS Wakeful, but is itself hit by
another torpedo from the same German E-boat and begins to
sink. Another British destroyer, HMS Comfort moves up to
help, but HMS Grafton fires on her in the mistaken believe
that she is a German ship, sinking HMS comfort. 15 other
vessels are also sunk by Luftwaffe Stuka attacks near Dunkirk
on this day.
French Hotchkiss H-39
The Hotchkiss
H-39 had respectable performance, but its major disadvantage was a one
man turret and its tactical use against the massed German armour, making them
no more effective than any other Allied tank.
Austrailia
Casualties (1939
- 1945):
Soldiers (Allied) - 31,200 Killed
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