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Second
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The
Birks Foundation goes one step further than militaria
items. We thoroughly investigate information
about the war era itself. This gives us a
view into the past about the people and actions
that affected the outcome of the wars fought.
Battles
and Offensives
- Second
World War:
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from the links Below: |
| Battles
and Offensives in the Second World War |
Date |
| The
German
Army invades Poland. |
1st
September, 1939 |
| The
Red
Army invades Finland. |
30th
November, 1939 |
| The
German
Army invades Denmark. |
8th
April, 1940 |
| The
German
Army invades Norway. |
8th
April, 1940 |
| Adolf
Hitler
launches his Western
Offensive. |
10th
May, 1940 |
| Evacuation
from Dunkirk
begins. |
27th
May, 1940 |
| Start
of the Battle
of Britain. |
10th
July, 1940 |
| Climax
of the Battle
of Britain. |
30th
August, 1940 |
| Start
of the Blitz. |
7th
September, 1940 |
| Rodolfo
Graziani and Italian
Army make a rapid advance into Egypt. |
13th
September, 1940 |
| Adolf
Hitler
postpones Operation
Sealion. |
17th
September, 1940 |
| British
Army captures Tobruk. |
22nd
January, 1941 |
| Erwin
Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert
War. |
24th
March 1941 |
| Operation
Punishment
comes to an end. |
22nd
June, 1941 |
| Adolf
Hitler
launches Operation
Barbarossa. |
22nd
June, 1941 |
| The
German Army advances on Leningrad. |
12th
August, 1941 |
| The
German
Army advances on Moscow. |
6th
October, 1941 |
| Japanese
forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl
Harbor. |
7th
December, 1941 |
| Japanese
troops invaded Malaya,
Thailand,
Batann Island in the Philippines. |
8th
December, 1941 |
| Japanese
troops invade Burma. |
11th
December, 1941 |
| Hong
Kong
surrendered with the loss of its 12,000
garrison. |
25th
December, 1941 |
| Japanese
troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore |
8th
February, 1941 |
| General
Arthur
Percival surrenders Singapore
to Japanese. |
15th
February, 1942 |
| General
Douglas
MacArthur and the United States forces
leave the Philippines |
22nd
February, 1942 |
| Allied
raid on St
Nazaire. |
27th
March, 1942 |
| Air
Marshall Arthur
Harris orders the bombing of Cologne. |
30th
May, 1942 |
| Start
of the battle of Midway. |
4th
June, 1942 |
| Erwin
Rommel defeats Neil
Richie at Gazala. |
14th
June, 1942 |
| Erwin
Rommel and the German
Army captures Tobruk. |
21st
June, 1942 |
| Allied
landings at Guadalcanal. |
7th
August, 1942 |
| Allied
raid on Dieppe. |
14th
August, 1942 |
| The
German
Army enters Stalingrad. |
24th
August, 1942 |
| Erwin
Rommel attacks Eighth Army at Alam
el Halfa. |
30th
August, 1942 |
| Bernard
Montgomery orders counter-attack at El
Alamein. |
23rd
October, 1942 |
| Wing
Commander Guy
Gibson leads
the Dambusters
Raid. |
16th
May, 1943 |
| The
German
Army defeated at El
Alamein. |
4th
November, 1942 |
| The
British
Army recaptures
Tobruk. |
13th
November, 1942 |
| The
Allies capture Tripoli. |
23rd
January, 1943 |
| Air
Marshall Arthur
Harris orders the bombing of Hamburg. |
24th
July, 1943 |
| Allied
forces bomb monastery at Monte
Cassino. |
15th
February, 1944 |
| Allied
bombing of Nuremberg
Raid. |
30th
March, 1944 |
| Axis
forces surrender Tunisia. |
11th
May, 1943 |
| Second
Front opened
with Allied landings in Normandy. |
6th
June, 1944 |
| The
German
Army crushes Warsaw
Uprising. |
2nd
October, 1944 |
| General
Walter
Krueger and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte. |
20th
October, 1944 |
| US
forces return to the Philippines
at Luzon |
15th
December, 1945 |
| Start
of Operation
Ten-Go. |
2nd
February, 1945 |
| Air
Marshall Arthur
Harris orders the bombing of Dresden. |
13th
February, 1945 |
| United
States Army land on Iwo
Jima. |
19th
February, 1945 |
| United
States Army Air Force
creates firestorm
in Tokyo. |
9th
March, 1945 |
| United
States Army land on Okinawa. |
1st
April, 1945 |
| A
700 plane kamikaze
attack sink and
damage 13 US destroyers.. |
6th
April, 1945 |
| The
Japanese giant battleship Yamato
sunk off Okinawa. |
7th
April, 1945 |
| End
of the Battle
of the Atlantic. |
7th
May, 1945 |
| United
States Army Air Force
drops atom
bomb on Hiroshima. |
6th
August, 1945 |
| United
States Army Air Force
drops atom
bomb on Nagasaki. |
9th
August , 1945 |
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