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... down a German Dornier bomber and a Soviet fighter.
1940: Churchill announces in the Commons that in first half of September 2,000 civilians have been killed and 8,000 seriously injured in air raids; the figure for service casualties, for the same period was 250.
1940: Liner City of Benares, evacuating children to Canada, is sunk by U48; 77 out of 99 childre... |
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... Dornier bomber and a Soviet fighter.
1940. szeptember 17. Churchill announces in the Commons that in first half of September 2,000 civilians have been killed and 8,000 seriously injured in air raids; the figure for service casualties, for the same period was 250.
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1939: Arrival of first British troops in France officially announced.
1940: Afternoon attacks on London: 110 killed and 260 injured; Dover suffers worst attack of war.
1941: Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a spe... |
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... Luftwaffe attacks London between dusk-to-dawn. 20 people are killed as an aerial torpedo hits an East End block of flats. Total casualties are estimated at 286 killed and 1,400 seriously injured.
1940: National 'day of prayer' proclaimed in Britain.
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... ablaze. The day-light raiders are gone by 18.00, but the fires are still burning when the night raiders arrive to inflict more damage at 20.10 during which 306 are killed and 1,337 seriously injured. The British make extravagant claims that 347 German aircraft have been lost in past week against just 128 British.
1941: The offensive of the German 20th Mountain Army in n... |
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... raids continue over Southeast England with a hospital in Kent being hit, killing 23 patients and two nurses. August civilian casualty figures announced at 1,075 killed and 1.261 seriously injured.
1941: British release General Dentz, after Vichy releases British POWs in Syria.
North American Aviation Ad - September 1943
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... 23, ERETZ ISRAEL
Arabs began to riot throughout pre-state Israel after Moslem Friday prayers. The next day, the riots spread to Hebron where over 60 Jews were killed and over 50 injured. During the week of August 23-29, 113 Jews were killed and 339 wounded. As a result, Sir Walter Shaw headed a commission which urged the banning of Jewish immigration and absolved the Arabs ... |
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| ... "top authorities" of the US army's XXII corps to allow the transports through, General Patton ordered his 8th armored Division to use force to send them back to Poland and many Jews were injured. The uproar in the press, combined with the soon-to-be-released Harrison Report, once and for all stopped the Americans from prohibiting Jews from enter into the American zone in Germany. ... |
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... six USAAF aircraft.
1943: In New Guinea, a Japanese plane is hit during a raid and crashes into a church. The chaplain is killed and several soldiers attending the service are injured.
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