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Nazi Invasion of Poland
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WWII
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german sinks aircraft carriers
7: German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst sink the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and two destroyers off Norway; the British ships have had no air cover -
loss of first neutral warship
31: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by Erich Topp's U-552 near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It makes headlines because it is the first loss of an American "neutral warship." -
the Channel Dash
The "Channel Dash." The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen rush out of Brest through the English Channel to northern ports, including Wilhelmshaven, Germany; the British naval units fail to sink any of them -
Quebec Argeement
19: Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Quebec Agreement during the Quebec Conference. -
Operation Shingle
22: Allies begin Operation Shingle, the landing at Anzio, Italy. The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division stand their ground at Anzio against violent assaults for 4 months. Time and again aggressive German artillery and troop attacks nearly overwhelm the beachhead. -
Opertaion Inflatuate
1: British forces take Salonika in northern Greece. The situation for civilians in Athens is now desperate.
: "Operation Infatuate": An Allied attempt to free the approaches to Antwerp; notably there are amphibious landings on Walcheren Island. -
First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan