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Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s (4 C, 78 P) M. 1940s mass shootings (13 C) Attacks on military installations in the 1940s (3 C, 47 P) T.
Attack on Pearl Harbor (3 C, 178 P) Pages in category "Attacks on military installations in the 1940s" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
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.
The Halfaya Pass attack failed, Point 206 was captured and only one of three attacks on Hafid Ridge had any success. At the end of 15 June, 48 British tanks remained operational. On 16 June, a German counter-attack forced back the British on the western flank but was repulsed in the centre.
Beginning in July 1940, the Red Army General Staff developed war plans that identified the Wehrmacht as the most dangerous threat to the Soviet Union, and that in the case of a war with Germany, the Wehrmacht ' s main attack would come through the region north of the Pripyat Marshes into Belorussia, [147] [138] which later proved to be correct ...
The most concentrated attacks were on the nights of 7/8 and 8/9 May 1941, resulting in just under 400 deaths, and another large-scale attack took place in July 1941 with 143 fatalities. The city spent more than 1,000 hours under alert during raids from 19 June 1940 to 1945, with almost 1,200 people in the city killed as a result of the bombing.
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.
The Battle for the Hague 1940: The First Great Airborne Operation in History. Aspekt BV. ISBN 978-90-5911-307-7. Doorman, P. L. G. (1944). Military Operations in the Netherlands from 10th-17th May, 1940. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Harff, D.; Harff, P. (2012). Valkenburg mei 1940, de strijd om het vliegveld en het dorp (in Dutch). P.