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Important War Dates (from Jimmy Brown's 1946 Letter from the King)The list starts below in 1939. Link directly to 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 19451939 Sep 1 Germany invaded Poland Sep 3 Great Britain and France declared war on Germany; the B.E.F. began to leave for France Dec 13 Battle of the River Plate Apr 9 Germany invaded Denmark and Norway May 10 Germany invaded the Low Countries June 3 Evacuation from Dunkirk completed June 8 British troops evacuated from Norway June 11 Italy declared war on Great Britain June 22 France capitulated June 29 Germans occupied the Channel Isles Aug 8-Oct 31 German air offensive against Great Britain (Battle of Britain) Oct 28 Italy invaded Greece Nov 11-12 Successful attack on the Italian Fleet in Taranto Harbour Dec 9-11 Italian invasion of Egypt defeated at the battle of Sidi Barrani Link back to top of list Mar 11 Lease-Lend Bill passed in U.S.A. Mar 28 Battle of Cape Matapan Apr 6 Germany invaded Greece Apr 12-Dec 9 The Siege of Tobruk May 20 Formal surrender of remnants of Italian Army in Abyssinia May 20-31 Battle of Crete May 27 German battleship Bismarck sunk June 22 Germany invaded Russia Aug 12 Terms of the Atlantic Charter agreed Nov 18 British offensive launched in the Western Desert Dec 7 Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour Dec 8 Great Britain and United States of America declared war on Japan Link back to top of list Feb 15 Fall of Singapore Apr 16 George Cross awarded to Malta Oct 23-Nov 4 German-Italian army defeated at El Alamein Nov 8 British and American forces landed in North Africa Link back to top of list Jan 31 The remnants of the 6th German Army surrendered at Stalingrad May Final victory over the U-Boats in the Atlantic May 13 Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered July 10 Allies invaded Sicily Sep 3 Allies invaded Italy Sep 8 Italy capitulated Dec 16 Scharnhorst sunk off North Cape Link back to top of list Jan 11 Allied troops landed at Anzio June 4 Rome captured June 6 Allies landed in Normandy June 13 Flying-bomb (V.1) attack on Britain started June Defeat of Japanese invasion of India Aug 25 Paris liberated Sep 3 Brussels liberated Sep 8 The first rocket-bomb (V.2) fell on England Sep 17-26 The Battle of Arnhem Oct 20 The Americans re-landed in the Philippines Link back to top of list Jan 17 Warsaw liberated Mar 20 British recaptured Mandalay Mar 23 British crossed the Rhine Apr 25 Opening of Conference of United Nations at San Francisco May 2 German forces in Italy surrendered May 3 Rangoon recaptured May 5 All the German forces in Holland, N.W. Germany and Denmark surrendered unconditionally May 9 Unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies ratified in Berlin June 10 Australian troops landed in Borneo Aug 6 First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Aug 8 Russia declared war on Japan Aug 9 Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Aug 14 The Emperor of Japan broadcast the unconditional surrender of his country Sep 5 British forces re-entered Singapore Link back to top of list Link back to Jimmy Brown's Letter from the King
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