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The only other fatal air raid in the town took place five months later, resulting in one death when a house near the border with Rowley Regis was hit by a bomb. A total of 36 people in Solihull were killed in air raids between 1940 and 1942. 17 people died as a result of air raids on Willenhall on 21 November 1940 and 31 July 1942.
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom for eight months from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941 during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the Luftwaffe and the Royal ...
A few days later, the Gloster Gladiator fighters of 80 Squadron moved forward to Trikala, causing significant losses to the Regia Aeronautica. [ 116 ] 211 Squadron with Blenheim Is, followed before the end of November, joining 84 Squadron at Menidi and 80 Squadron moved to Yannina , about 65 kilometres (40 mi) from the Albanian border.
King Haakon and his government had evacuated to Britain three days previously. French government moves to Tours. 11 June: The Siege of Malta begins. 12 June: More than 10,000 British soldiers of the 51st (Highland) Division are captured at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux. 13 June: The French government moves again, this time to Bordeaux. [2] 14 June
Defence expenditure also grew rapidly from just 12 percent of the gross national product in 1933 to 18 percent by 1940. [137] During Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in the late 1930s, which had not ended by the time of the German invasion on 22 June 1941, much of the officer corps of the Red Army was executed or imprisoned.
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.
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 ...
They were worsened by the disclosure of air-raid shelter locations to the Germans in the days preceding the attack. [15] The official casualty figure released by the occupation authorities soon after the bombing was 2,271 killed. Other sources mention 5,000 to 10,000 fatalities, and later Yugoslav estimates ranged even higher.