Diary June 10, 1940
Diary for Monday, June 10, 1940: Politics ITALY DECLARES WAR ON BRITAIN AND FRANCE. Hostilities to begin at midnight. CANADA DECLARES WAR ON ITALY. French Government leaves Paris for Tours, […]
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Diary for Monday, June 10, 1940: Politics ITALY DECLARES WAR ON BRITAIN AND FRANCE. Hostilities to begin at midnight. CANADA DECLARES WAR ON ITALY. French Government leaves Paris for Tours, […]
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Diary for Sunday, June 10, 1945: Okinawa US 24th Corps launches all-out attack on Yaeju-Dake Line, in extreme south. US Marines compress Japanese pocket in Oroku sector. Sea War Pacific
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Diary for Sunday, June 9, 1940: France German Army Group A (45 divisions) attacks on the river Aisne. 5th Panzer Division captures Rouen. Norway GERMAN-NORWEGIAN ARMISTICE. General Dietl receives surrender
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Diary for Saturday, June 9, 1945: Occupied countries Germany: Montgomery takes salute at last parade of Guards Armored Division. Politics Anglo-British-Yugoslav Agreement on future status of Trieste. Home Fronts Britain
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Diary for Saturday, June 8, 1940: Sea War Carrier Glorious and escorting destroyers Acasta and Ardent sunk in desperate battle with Gneisenau and Scharnhorst south-west of Narvik. Acasta scores damaging
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Diary for Friday, June 8, 1945: Sea War Pacific: Japanese cruiser Ashigara sunk by British submarine Trenchant off Sumatra.
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Diary for Thursday, June 7, 1945: Home Fronts Britain: King and Queen visit Channel Islands. First performance of Britten’s opera ‘Peter Grimes‘ at Sadler’s Wells Theater, London. Norway King Haakon
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Diary for Friday, June 7, 1940: France Rommel advances 30 miles (ca. 48 km) to Forges-Ies-Eaux, north of Rouen. Air War French Naval Air Force attempts token bombing raid on
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Diary for Wednesday, June 6, 1945: Politics Brazil declares war on Japan. Secret War Detention of 4 agents landed on Orissa coast (India) by Japanese submarine in March 1944: 2
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Diary for Thursday, June 6, 1940: France Despite strong French resistance, Rommel breaks through west of Amiens and advances 20 miles (ca. 32 km). Air War 21 LeO-451 bombers (11
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Diary for Tuesday, June 5, 1945: Politics ALLIED AGREEMENT ON PARTITION OF GERMANY AND CITY OF BERLIN signed by Eisenhower, Montgomery, Lattre de Tassigny and Zhukov. Okinawa Naha airfield captured
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Diary for Wednesday, June 5, 1940: Western Front BATTLE OF FRANCE BEGINS – Operation Rot (Red): 119 German divisions (with 10 armored) against 65 French divisions (3 armored, 3 mechanized
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Diary for Tuesday, June 4, 1940: Western Front Germans capture Dunkirk, taking 40,000 French prisoners (rearguard plus many stragglers), and great quantities of abandoned British equipment, inc. 2,472 guns, 84,427
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Diary for Monday, June 4, 1945: Okinawa US Marines land behind Japanese lines in Oroku Peninsular. Occupied countries Germany: Paul Ferdonnet Â- the ‘Radio Traitor’ of Stuttgart – arrested by
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Diary for Monday, June 3, 1940: Sea War Last evacuation ships leave Dunkirk (night June 3-4). Dunkirk Evacuation: Total evacuated: 338,226 men inc. about 120,000 French and Belgians; 861 ships
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