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... southern shore, capturing Inkerman in the process.
1942: 2 freighters and 1 tanker from convoy PQ-17 suffer accidental damage and are forced to abort.
1942: German advance units capture Fuqa and report increasing confusion in the retreating Bri... |
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... aid the Soviet war effort.
1942: Simultaneous British convoys set sail for Malta from Gibraltar and Alexandria. The Gibraltar convoy (codenamed ' Harpoon'), consisted of 5 freighters and a US tanker. It was initially escorted by a battleship, 2 aircraft carrier, 3 cruisers and 8 destroyers and was later reinforced by an anti-aircraft cruiser and 9 destroyers. The Alexa... |
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Március 26.
1899 A.D. -- On March 26th the single 19-year-old seamstress, Agnes Kurza, was slaughtered by the hand of the Jewish butcher Leopold Hilsner. The corpse was found bloodless. The murderer was sentenced to death by the court of Kuttenberg.
1917 March 26, PRINCE G.E. LVOV (Russia)
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... have escaped serious damage are approaching Malta. However, it is here that they come under concentrated air attack which sinks 1 freighter and damages another, although the other two freighters make it safely in to the port of Valleta. However, air attacks against the docks at Valletta made it very difficult to unload.
Chevrolet Ad - March 1943
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1942: The Red Army offensive at Kerch in the Crimea is defeated with heavy losses to the Russians.
1942: In what was to become known as the 2nd Battle of Sirte, 4 freighters, escorted by 3 cruisers, 1 anti-aircraft cruiser and 17 destroyers leave Alexandria bound for Malta. This force would later be strengthened by the cruiser Penelope and a destroy... |
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... by Russians. German troops evacuate Krasnodar and reach the defensive positions in the Kuban bridgehead.
1943: German bombers attacked port of Bari on Adriatic, sinking 16 freighters including an American ship carrying poison mustard gas shells, causing heavy casualties in the port.
1943: Rommel and Von Arnim's forces launch a counter attack against the Ame... |
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... don't hurt us!". That evening, in Sevastopol, German troops cross North Bay under a smoke screen and seize the southern shore, capturing Inkerman in the process.
1942: 2 freighters and 1 tanker from convoy PQ-17 suffer accidental damage and are forced to abort.
1942: German advance units capture Fuqa and report increasing confusion in the retreating British... |
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| ... disables two British destroyers, as well as damaging the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Cairo, although the the Italians lost a destroyer in the process. Axis aircraft then attacked and sank 2 freighters, the tanker Kentucky and 1 destroyer. Another Italian naval squadron had sailed from Taranto to intercept 'Vigorous', which reversed course in the face of this threat. While it was doi... |
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... aid the Soviet war effort.
1942: Simultaneous British convoys set sail for Malta from Gibraltar and Alexandria. The Gibraltar convoy (codenamed ' Harpoon'), consisted of 5 freighters and a US tanker. It was initially escorted by a battleship, 2 aircraft carrier, 3 cruisers and 8 destroyers and was later reinforced by an anti-aircraft cruiser and 9 destroyers. The Alexa... |
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1942: Churchill tells the conservatives, 'It now seems very likely that we and our allies cannot lose this war, except through our own fault'.
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