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... 1st South African Division launches a feint attack against Mega in southern Abyssinia, in order to prevent the Italians from sending troops to reinforce their hard pressed forces in Somaliland.
1942: The British withdraw to Singapore Island with the Japanese only 8 miles away.
1942: Hitler, speaking at the Berlin Sports Palace, reaffirms his prewar prophecy... |
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... Washington, the US and British military leaders begin secret staff talks regarding co-ordination of a common war policy against Germany.
1941: South African forces enter Italian Somaliland.
1941: Greek Premier, General. Metaxis dies aged 70. M. A. Korizis takes over.
1942: RAF Bomber Command mount an attack to sink the Tirpitz, while she is at a... |
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... strength by the Luftwaffe causes a lull in operations.
1940: Mussolini orders Marshal Graziani to invade Egypt. Italian troops enter the Port of Berbera, the capital of British Somaliland, where they are welcomed by strafing RAF Blenheims. British transport 5,300-5,700 combat troops and 1,000 civilians to Aden, Yemen. August 5-19, British ground losses were 38 KIA, 102... |
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... British claim 144 Germans shot down, later revised to 67Â with RAF losses of 33 planes lost but eight pilots safe.
1940 August 18, The last of the British rearguard in British Somaliland slip away in darkness, race into Berbera and embark on the morning. British bombers attack Italian units at Laferug and the airfield at Addis Abeba.
1940 August 18, Italian ... |
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... papokat, a fehérgárdistákat és más kétes elemeket". (Vö. 1918. szeptember 5.; 1918. szeptember 10.; 1920. február 12.)
1940: Italian ground forces make slow progress in British Somaliland. Both the Italians and the British conduct air raids against each other.
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... Goering sets the 10th August 1940 as 'Eagle day', the start of the Luftwaffe major offensive against the RAF and its Airfields.
1940: Italian forces reach Odweina in British Somaliland. Battles at Tug Argan and at Hargeisa.
1941: The Japanese foreign minister, Admiral Nomura, proposes to the USA a meeting between Roosevelt and Prime Minister Konoye.
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... revolutionary work while remaining an independent ethnic group which lead to the Bund seceding from the Social Democratic Party.
1940: The Italians begin their invasion of British Somaliland, East Africa. Using some 25,000 troops, they push the small British garrison back towards the port of Berbera.
1941: Stimson shows Hull the Magic intercept of Toyoda's ... |
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... Rommel, conducts a limited offensive to recapture El Agheila from the British, which succeeds with startling ease. This encourages Rommel to push forward towards Mersa Brega. British Somaliland is now clear of Italians.
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... Germany.
1941: The Berbera force and elements of the 11th African Division meet at Hargeisa inside British Somaliland.
1941: Four Yugoslav ministers resign rather than accept German terms.
1942: About 1000 schoolteachers are arrested in Norway.
1942: The Red Army off... |
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... Upholder, sinks the Italian Cruiser Armando Diaz to the southwest of Malta.
1941: British Nigerian troops of the 11th African Division occupy Mogadishu, the capital of Italian Somaliland, having advanced up the coast. Meanwhile the 12th African Division pushes up the river Juba in Italian Somaliland towards the Abyssinian border town of Dolo.
1942: The deba... |
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