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1941: The Luftwaffe carries out a raid on the British naval base at Chatham, but with little success.
1941: 29 People Killed, when German dive-bombers sink the Great Western Railway steamer St. Patrick.
1941: Russian news agency Tass, denies German threat on its borders and calls rumors 'absurd and obviously sheer hostile propag... |
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| ... LBJ. After 3 hours of brutal attack, a Russian ship pulled up to watch the treacherous Israeli onslaught on the US vessel. Facing the facts that they were caught and the USS Liberty would not sink the Israeli ships backed off allowing the Liberty to limp to safety. Afterwards, all American and Israeli Soldiers were told they would spend life in prison or be killed if they told any... |
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... number of warships sunk or damaged, while the Germans lose about 6,200 men.
1941: Stukas sink the British cruiser Calcutta off Alexandria.
1941: British forces enter Baghdad and reinstate the Regent.
1942: America begins sending Lend-Lease materials to the Sov... |
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... The French defense of Lille collapses. Churchill flies to Paris for a meeting of the Supreme Allied War Council, the second time since the 10th May.
1940: Heavy Luftwaffe attacks sink two French destroyers off the beaches at Dunkirk.
1941: German bombers attack Dublin by mistake: Eire government protests, Germans later offer compensation. British civilian c... |
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| ... 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 belief that she is a German ship, sinking HMS Comfort. 15 other vessels are also sunk... |
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... (Belgium)
The Belgium administration refused to disseminate the order for Jews to wear the yellow badge, and the Germans were forced to do it themselves.
1942: Luftwaffe bombers sink 5 ships of Convoy PQ-16 off the northern coast of Norway.
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... and St Omer in North-eastern France.
1940: Luftwaffe sink destroyer Wessex off Calais.
1941 May 24, BOB DYLAN (Robert Zimmerman) (USA)
Was born in Duluth, Minnesota. Dylan became an icon for young people in the 1960's and is cred... |
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... coast.
1941: Himmler establishes Norwegian SS on German lines.
1941: British blockade of Vichy France made complete.
1941: Heavy German air attacks on Crete sink the cruisers Fiji, Gloucester and the destroyer Greyhound. The Battleships Warspite and Valiant are damaged, but the Royal Navy breaks up German supply convoy.
1941: Fierce ... |
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... civilian life in the Ruhr valley below them, but doing little damage to the industrial installations. Gibson is later awarded the Victoria Cross.
1944: Aircraft of RAF Coastal Command sink 5 U-boats off the Norwegian coast.
1944: The first Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process.... |
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... reaches the Brenner Pass.
1945: SEAC announces that Rangoon was taken so quickly that the Japanese had no time to destroy the installations there.
1945: Kamikaze flyers sink 17 U.S. ships in 24 hours off Okinawa.
1945: Admiral von Friedeburg arrives at Montgomery's HQ on Lüneburg Heath with German plenipotentiaries. At 8.15pm SHAEF announce that... |
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