On this day during WW2

Discussion in 'All Anniversaries' started by spidge, May 31, 2006.

  1. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    On this day 31 March / 1 April 1941 the first 4000lb bomb (Blockbuster) was dropped by Wellington (9/19 Squadron) aircraft, target Emden (Naval, Transport, Industry)

    During the course of 1941 RAF Bomber Command visited Emden on 71 occasions. 487 aircraft attacked the target. 636 tons of HE along with 98 tons of incendiaries were dropped. 18 aircraft were missing or lost.
     
  2. Incredibledisc

    Incredibledisc Well-Known Member

    On this day 16th April 1945, the 7th Armoured Brigade liberates Stalag XIB at Fallingbostel. Among the prisoners, my great grandfather, Lance Corporal John Conway of the 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders who spent the years 1940-45 as a "guest of the Reich".

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  3. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    29/30 April 1942 the last operation was carried out by the Whitley aircraft, except from OTUs.
     
  4. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    1945: Rejoicing at end of war in Europe
    The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has officially announced the end of the war with Germany.
    In a message broadcast to the nation from the Cabinet room at Number 10, he said the ceasefire had been signed at 0241 yesterday at the American advance headquarters in Rheims.
    Huge crowds, many dressed in red, white and blue, gathered outside Buckingham Palace in London and were cheered as the King, Queen and two Princesses came out onto the balcony.
    Earlier tens of thousands of people had listened intently as the King's speech was relayed by loudspeaker to those who had gathered in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square.




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    Winston Churchill made a broadcast to the nation, and in his wonderful and dramatic way told us that war was over

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    In it he paid tribute to the men and women who had laid down their lives for victory as well as to all those who had "fought valiantly" on land, sea and in the air.
    The act of unconditional surrender is to be ratified in Berlin today - but in the interest of saving lives the ceasefire came into effect yesterday.
    In his speech, Mr Churchill said: "We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing; but let us not forget for a moment the toil and efforts that lie ahead. Japan with all her treachery and greed, remains unsubdued.
    "We must now devote all our strength and resources to the completion of our task, both at home and abroad. Advance Britannia."
    Even after dark, floods of people continued to converge on some of London's great monuments, floodlit specially for the occasion. There were fireworks, too, and effigies of Hitler burned on bonfires around the capital.
    Later Mr Churchill was greeted by cheering crowds as he made his way to Whitehall and appeared on the flag-bedecked balcony of the Ministry of Health.
    "God bless you all," he said over the loudspeaker, which was greeted with further cheering and waving from the crowd and a round of "For he's a jolly good fellow".





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  5. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    In this morning's Times I was hard pressed to find anything obout the annivversary of D-Day

    I finally found 5 lines about the earth shattering event on page 27 under the heading "On this day"

    I have to say that I was never on the Normandy beaches, being involved in another place at the time, but I still recognise the importance of the landings and wonder what veterans of D-Day think about The Times down-playing of this amazing piece of history.

    Ron
     
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  6. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

    Thanks for noting, Ron.

    In this topic (On this day during WW2), there is a post for 06 June 2013, but none for 06 June 2014 or 06 June 2015. Maybe we remembered it elsewhere? Or maybe I missed it.
    I'm not a big fan of The Times, can't read it online. I have to read distorted history elsewhere!

    Geoff

    (In a grumpy mood, so apologies if I seem that way. More coffee may help)
     
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  8. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    As we enjoy this sunny day here in the UK let us not forget those that gave their lives on this day in 1944 so that we can do so in peace.

    At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning We Will Remember Them
     

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  9. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

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    The anniversary of D-Day was not forgotten in Goole, East Yorkshire today. A small crowd gathered mid-morning to pay their respects.
    This is the small memorial with flowers left today.
     
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  10. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    On this day in 1943, the last of the captured Chindits from Operation Longcloth were moved from Maymyo POW Camp down to Rangoon Jail.

    Of the 230 or so Chindit POW's, only one third survived their time in Rangoon and returned home.
     
  11. Peter Clare

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  12. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    On this day 20/21 June 1943. Aircraft attacking German targets from England proceeded to North West Africa for the first time.
     
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  13. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

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    Raids carried out by the German Air Force 10/13 August 1940
     
  14. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    The end of Operation Totalize August 10th 1944 Lied4-big.jpg
     
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  15. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Thursday 24th. August 1944
    Painting truck all day, in the evening all Regiment confined to camp. General flap tent walls down, trucks loaded. Parcel also arrived & though I'm packed it's still very welcome.

    The location was Egypt and we had just finished a month of rest and re-equipment.
    We were shortly to sail back to Italy for the final stages of the war in that area

    Ron
     
  16. Norma Temperton

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  17. Norma Temperton

    Norma Temperton New Member

    My Uncle James Richard Knowles was on the HMS Calcutta in the Battle for Crete. He was badly injured and carried on a raft and died in hospital in Alexandria.
     
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  18. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Wednesday 25th. October 1944
    Up the mountainside in morning operating set. Reception pretty good. Rained all day. Film show in courtyard in evening was pretty good, Fred Astaire in "The Skys the Limit". Most of the chaps ill in the night. Grub again.

    Ron
     
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  19. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

    From 56 Recce War Diary 29 April 1945

    03.30 Order received from Div. cancelling move across Po owing to bad weather.

    18.00 During afternoon advance parties returned to Reg'l area. Sqns. resting and cleaning up.
    One Sjt. accidently killed through inspecting Italian "Red Devil". **
    Weather became fine during day. Div. Mov. Instr. received.

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  20. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    “The gratitude of every home in our island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. ”
    —Tribute to the Royal Air Force, House of Commons, 20 August 1940.
    Battle of Britain - 20 August 1940: 'The Few' - RAF Association

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