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July 1, 1940 France signed an armistice with Germany. All of the Atlantic Coast in a strip twenty miles deep along with the entire...

1941, Saturday 06 December; An hour before sundown, the Vildebeest bomber taxied to the aircraft pen, led by a hand-painted RAF blue...

Units, ships, or officers underscored not historical to this Command For Hong Kong units see Hong Kong Garrison OOB For Borneo or...

I disagree. Look at the USN procurement requests pre-war as an example. The USN between 1936 and 1941 funding and wish list was for...

10 June 1942. London, England. General Alan Brooke had prepared a statement to be made at an interview with the Soviet Minister of...

June 16, 1940 Italy declared war on France and Great Britain. The Royal Navy began to mine approaches to Italian ports and plans to...

1941, Friday 05 December; The summary was finished, the facts (as much as they had) laid bare. All the senior officers and the aides...

June 3, 1940 Northumberland The forty Royal Engineers sweated in the late spring sun. The last of the concrete was being poured into...

Hi RampRat, I love your summaries, you seem to have a better handle on what I'm doing than I do.

May 25, 1940 852 Berck, France A dozen tanks and seven score men rested. They had reached the sea. Six men had dismounted a few minutes...