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1943: The Japanese Navy orders the evacuation of Guadalcanal by the end of the month.
Ray-O-Vac Batteries Ad - January 1943
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... authorizes the creation of the U.S. Office on War Information (OWI). The first director is Elmer Holmes Davis, a CBS commentator and novelist.
1942: German tanks and anti-tank batteries destroy 138 British tanks in and around the Knightsbridge pocket. This left the Eighth Army with only 75 armoured vehicles operational and threatened the main British supply route along... |
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... 'Operation Overlord', the allied invasion of France, for 24 hours because of rough seas in the English Channel.
1944: The RAF carries out heavy night raids against German coastal batteries and fortifications in Normandy.
1944: U-505, patrolling off Cape Blanco on the West African coast is forced to the surface by depth-charges from the U.S. destroyer escort... |
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| ... formal siege of a modern fortress being pushed through to final reduction. Sevastopol is the premier port on the Black Sea, and its defenses include three zones of trenches, pillboxes, and batteries. The strongest defenses lie in the middle zone, which includes the heights and the south bank of the Belbek River. Among these hills are "Fort Stalin" on the East and the massive weste... |
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... Leningrad whose inhabitants are suffering from bombing, disease and starvation. The siege of the Crimean fortress of Sevastopol by the 11th Army continues with a ceaseless bombardment by batteries of heavy guns (up to 800mm) and hundreds of bombers (up to 1,000 sorties a day) of Luftflotte 7.
1942 May, - 1943 October, SOBIBOR (Lublin, Poland)
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... Norwegian defenders move inland. Major Quisling sets up 'National Government' in Oslo.
1940: The Kriegsmarine loses the cruisers Blücher, which is sunk by Norwegian coastal batteries, plus Königsberg and Karlsruhe to British naval and air attack.
1941: The RAF attack Kiel in an attempt to knock out the port facilities.
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1943: The Japanese Navy orders the evacuation of Guadalcanal by the end of the month.
Ray-O-Vac Batteries Ad - January 1944
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1943: The Eighth Army offensive on Sangro continues, with a second bridgehead being established.
RAY-O-VAC Batteries Ad - November 1943
1944: The U.S. Ninth Army reaches the Roer from Ju... |
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... authorizes the creation of the U.S. Office on War Information (OWI). The first director is Elmer Holmes Davis, a CBS commentator and novelist.
1942: German tanks and anti-tank batteries destroy 138 British tanks in and around the Knightsbridge pocket. This left the Eighth Army with only 75 armoured vehicles operational and threatened the main British supply route along... |
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... 'Operation Overlord', the allied invasion of France, for 24 hours because of rough seas in the English Channel.
1944: The RAF carries out heavy night raids against German coastal batteries and fortifications in Normandy.
1944: U-505, patrolling off Cape Blanco on the West African coast is forced to the surface by depth-charges from the U.S. destroyer escort... |
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