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The Battle of the Heligoland Bight [6] [7] was the first "named" air battle of the Second World War, which began the longest air campaign of the war on 3 September 1939, the Defence of the Reich. [8] After the declaration of war, RAF Bomber Command began operations against Nazi Germany but limited their attacks to those targets that were purely ...
September 1: World War II breaks out in Europe with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland. World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945.
Bloody Sunday (German: Bromberger Blutsonntag; Polish: Krwawa niedziela) was a sequence of violent events that took place in Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg), a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland.
List of shipwrecks: 3 September 1939 Ship State Description Athenia United Kingdom World War II: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 250 nautical miles (460 km) off the coast of Northern Ireland) by U-30 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 117 of the 1,418 people on
This is a timeline of events of World War II in 1939 from the start of the war on 1 September 1939. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 brought many countries into the war. This event, and the declaration of war by France and Britain two days ...
Positions of Polish and German forces in Silesia before the war began. The town of Katowice was located close to the Polish-German border at the time. Given the growing Polish–German tensions, local Polish activists, mainly former Silesian insurgents and youths from the Polish Boy and Girl Scouting, started to organize self-defense militia units by the end of August 1939. [1]
A memorial for the Polish Boy Scouts who died defending Katowice in September 1939. A number of fallen scouts were victims of the executions of 4 September 1939. Monument to the Defenders of Katowice, described on the inscription as "Silesian insurgents, Boy and Girl scouts, murdered in 1939 by the Hitlerite invaders, in forests, streets and ...
The 3rd Army was activated on September 1, 1939, the day German forces invaded Poland.It was put under the command of General der Artillerie Georg von Küchler.Küchler later became commander of Army Group North in 1942 and also later became Generalfeldmarschall.