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Arson in the 1940s (60 P) B. Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s (4 C, 78 P) M. 1940s mass shootings (13 C) Attacks on military installations in the ...
Pages in category "Attacks on military installations in 1940" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Jewish Defense League (JDL), which engaged in attacks against targets it perceived to be anti-Semitic, launched 27 attacks during this period, none deadly. Both the Independent Armed Revolutionary Commandos (CRIA), another Puerto Rican separatist group, and Omega 7 , an anti-Castro Cuban organization, were also each responsible for 16 ...
Operation Battleaxe (15–17 June 1941) was a British Army offensive during the Second World War to raise the Siege of Tobruk and re-capture eastern Cyrenaica from German and Italian forces. [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 ...
Renewed attacks led to nothing, and this front became a stalemate for the remainder of Barbarossa. [260] [261] 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 ...
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.
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About 75 shells of 75 mm (2.95 in) were unleashed on the invaders, but with little effect. During the second attempt, the Luftwaffe dropped a number of bombs on the navy ships that caused substantial damage to the motor torpedo boat. Both ships retired after the bomb attack. They had suffered three men killed in action. [2]