monty
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"you english walk too proudly on the earth"
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Post by monty on Oct 14, 2004 14:45:34 GMT -5
oct 14 1939-- u47 breaks into impregnable scapa flow orkney islands. torpedos and sinks battleship ark royal.
escaped polish code breaking team who built replicas of the enigma move to france, later all there research was passed on to the brits at station x bletchley park
oct 14 1940--raf raid berlin 240 aircraft engage in night raids
oct 14 1941--germans capture Mozhaysk west of berlin
oct 14 1942--japanese reinforcements land at guadalcanal
germans launch second " final "offensive ferocious artliiery mortar barrage ruins tractor factory and siberian regt. hold red october works in city centre. held out against 117 seperate attacks
oct 14 1943-- black thursday 291 b17s drop 483 tons of bombs on targets 60 planes lost deep penetration strategic raids abndoned by 8th af
oct 14 1944-- 2000 raf bombers raid duisburg, 9500 tons of bombs dropped over 2 nights. 1000 bombers head to cologne
what do you think to all that then chris....
monty
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 15, 2004 12:18:13 GMT -5
Nobody likes a smart arse..... 15th Oct. 1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason. 1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.
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Post by Guv on Oct 17, 2004 5:02:21 GMT -5
17th October 2004 Stu Dawson completes his first parachute jump.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 18, 2004 11:23:39 GMT -5
Operation brown pants ? Oct 18th. 1942 - Vice Admiral William F. Halsey replaced Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley as commander in the South Pacific. 1944 - Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Soviets during World War II.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 19, 2004 11:28:11 GMT -5
Oct 19th.
1943 - The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began in Russia during World War II. Delegates from the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, the U.S., and China met to discuss war aims and cooperation between the nations.
1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state of war with Germany.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 20, 2004 8:37:40 GMT -5
20th Oct.
1944 - Allied forces invaded the Philippines.
1944 - During World War II, the Yugoslav cities of Belgrade and Dubrovnik were liberated.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 21, 2004 10:13:49 GMT -5
October 21st
1944 - The German city of Aachen was captured by U.S. troops.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Oct 22, 2004 11:29:06 GMT -5
October 22nd. 1854 - The Victoria Cross begins its institution. 1354 VC's awarded to date, origonally cast from the captured bronze guns at Balaclava. (The Leicesters also captured 2 other peices not bronze but inscribed with the Czars crest, currently stand outside Newarke Houses museum, Leicester.) The VC has been won twice by 3 men, Arthur Martin-Leake, Noel Chavasse and Charles Upham. more info at www.victoriacross.net
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Nov 2, 2004 12:21:28 GMT -5
November 2.
1942 British launch Operation Supercharge
On this day in 1942, General Montgomery breaks through Rommel's defensive line at El Alamein, Egypt, forcing a retreat. It was the beginning of the end of the Axis occupation of North Africa.
In July 1942, having already taken Tobruk, Gen. Erwin Rommel and his mixed German-Italian forces attempted to push through the British defensive line at El Alamein, but failed. The Brits and the Axis had reached a standstill, and both sides took time to regroup before resuming the battle. Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Bernard Montgomery took control of the British 8th Army, and on October 23 launched Operation Lightfoot, a broad offensive initiated by artillery fire. Rommel's forces had dug a five-mile-deep defensive area, replete with minefields and antitank guns. But this did not stop Montgomery, who had three armoured divisions and almost seven infantry divisions. The Axis forces were without their leader, as Rommel had taken ill and was convalescing in Austria. By the time the German general was recalled to Africa by Hitler, two days after the launching of Lightfoot, Monty and his forces had pushed passed his defensive line and were six miles beyond the original stalemate point.
Rommel gave as good as he got, using his antitank weaponry to destroy four times as many British tanks as he lost (but still leaving the Brits with 800 against Rommel's 90). Montgomery's drive northward was stopped-but only temporarily. On November 2, he launched Operation Supercharge, switched the direction of his attack westward, and punched through the German-Italian line. Rommel retreated to Fukah but Hitler insisted that Rommel hold his position at El Alamein. Rommel obeyed, which was a mistake. Instead of making a stand at Fukah, he was forced to waste more time and more of his forces as the British pushed harder, forcing Rommel to retreat even farther as he attempted to escape sweeping British offensives from the south. By mid-January 1943, Rommel had been pushed through Libya into Tunisia. As Churchill would sum up: "Up to Alamein we survived. After Alamein we conquered."
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monty
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"you english walk too proudly on the earth"
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Post by monty on Nov 4, 2004 3:55:22 GMT -5
4th nov 1976
i was born, hooray
monty
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Post by Guv on Nov 4, 2004 4:01:01 GMT -5
Happy birthday you young Tiger Cub.
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Post by Whizz_Bang on Nov 4, 2004 12:41:41 GMT -5
Indeed many happies youngster !
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Post by Bonkers on Nov 4, 2004 15:49:27 GMT -5
;D yes many glad returns, young siree. mmmmmmmmm 1976......
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Post by Tiny on Nov 5, 2004 12:29:52 GMT -5
Happy Birthday for yesterday matey ;D Hope you had a good one
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Post by Bonkers on Dec 7, 2004 14:48:47 GMT -5
Dec 3rd 1944, saw the last ever Homeguard parade. 60 years ago friday just gone.
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