Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The most active perpetrators of terrorism in New York City were Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), a Puerto Rican separatist group, responsible for 40 NYC attacks in this decade. The Jewish Defense League (JDL), which engaged in attacks against targets it perceived to be anti-Semitic, launched 27 attacks during this period, none ...
Arson in the 1940s (60 P) B. Attacks on buildings and structures in the ... Attacks on military installations in the 1940s (3 C, 47 P) T. Terrorist incidents in the 1940s
Attacks on hospitals during World War II (1 C, 27 P) M. Attacks on military installations in the 1940s (3 C, 47 P) P. Attacks on police stations in the 1940s (4 P) R.
Renewed attacks led to nothing, and this front became a stalemate for the remainder of Barbarossa. [266] [267] The second pincer attack began on 1 July with the German XXXVI Corps and Finnish III Corps slated to recapture the Salla region for Finland and then proceed eastwards to cut the Murmansk railway near Kandalaksha. The German units had ...
By 6 am on 12 January Task Group 38.2 was within 50 miles (80 km) of Cam Ranh Bay. It and the other two task groups began launching their first strikes of the day at 07:31 am, about half an hour before sunrise. [45] The Japanese had still not detected the Third Fleet's approach, and were unprepared for an attack. [13]
[h] It was the first time during the war that a significant German force fought on the defensive. The British lost over half of their tanks on the first day and only one of three attacks succeeded. The British achieved mixed results on the second day, being pushed back on their western flank and repulsing a big German counter-attack in the centre.
Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland January 12, 1940. 1 February: The Japanese Diet announces a record high budget with over half its expenditures being military.; 5 February: Britain and France decide to intervene in Norway to cut off the iron ore trade in anticipation of an expected German occupation and ostensibly to open a route to assist Finland.
Following the Italian invasion on 28 October 1940, Greece, with British air and material support, repelled the initial Italian attack and a counter-attack in March 1941. When the German invasion, known as Operation Marita, began on 6 April, the bulk of the Greek Army was on the Greek border with Albania , then a vassal of Italy, from which the ...