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On October 28, the railroad was hit again by five Mosquitoes. Two days later, six aircraft attacked the railroad and the city center. After this, several more attacks caused intense fire. During these raids, at least half a dozen attacks had hit the city, all in October. Despite this, the city remained a target. [vague]
Three days later, the Panzers pushed on to Bryansk, while the 2nd Army attacked from the west. [297] The Soviet 3rd and 13th Armies were now encircled. To the north, the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies attacked Vyazma, trapping the 19th, 20th, 24th and 32nd Armies. [269] Moscow's first line of defence had been shattered.
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 Battle of Dombås was fought between Norwegian Army infantry forces and German Fallschirmjäger paratroops in mid-April 1940. As part of their conquest of Norway south of Trondheim, and as a countermeasure against reported Allied landings in the Romsdal area of south-western Norway, the Germans dropped a company of paratroopers near the vital railroad junction of Dombås [8] on 14 April 1940.
Siege of Calais (1940) Battle of Cape Spada; Case Brown; Central Hubei Operation; 1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya; Bombing of Chongqing; Battle of Clos du Doubs; 1940 Cochinchina uprising; Operation Collar (commando raid) Convoy HX 47; Convoy HX 49; Operation Cycle; Czortków uprising
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Three days later they would mow down 129 deacons, thus bringing the number of victims to 449. Maletti sent Graziani a telegram with the inscription "Complete liquidation", as proof of the massacre, and Graziani communicated the new number of those executed in Rome.
The United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany in 1939, following the German invasion of Poland, but no major land operations occurred in Western Europe during the period known as the Phoney War in the winter of 1939–1940. During this time, the British and French built up their forces in expectation of a long war, and the Germans ...