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  2. Category:Attacks in the 1940s - Wikipedia

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    Attacks in 1945 (2 C, 1 P) Attacks in 1946 (2 C) A. Arson in the 1940s ... Attacks on military installations in the 1940s (3 C, 47 P) T. Terrorist incidents in the ...

  3. Battle of Drøbak Sound - Wikipedia

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    The fortress was subjected to heavy Luftwaffe bombing later on the same day, to which the fortress could only reply with two Bofors 40 mm L/60 anti-aircraft (AA) guns and three Colt M/29 7.92 mm (0.312 in) AA machine guns at Seiersten Battery, as well as another four Colt M/29 7.92 mm AA machine guns at Håøya Battery, [45] but again there ...

  4. Category : Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s

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    Attacks on religious buildings and structures during World War II (3 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.

  5. German invasion of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    In a 20 January 1940 radio speech, Winston Churchill tried to convince them not to wait for an inevitable German attack, but to join the Anglo-French Entente. [22] Both the Belgians and Dutch refused, even though the German attack plans had fallen into Belgian hands after a German aircraft crash in January 1940, in what became known as the ...

  6. Category:Conflicts in 1940 - Wikipedia

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    1940 riots (2 P) S. Second Sino-Japanese War (9 C, 49 P) W. Western Desert campaign (2 C, 67 P) ... Fighter-bomber attacks on the United Kingdom during World War II;

  7. Raid on Sidi Haneish Airfield - Wikipedia

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    Stirling had for some time been developing a plan to attack the Sidi Haneish Airfield, a complex located 235 mi (378 km) west of Cairo, which the Germans called Haggag el Qasaba. The raid was to involve a tactic unfamiliar to the SAS; storming the base in vehicles, rather than discreetly penetrating it.

  8. Category:Terrorist incidents in the 1940s - Wikipedia

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    About Category:Terrorist incidents in the 1940s and related categories The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism , a contentious label . Value-laden labels —such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable ...

  9. Bombings of Heilbronn in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The alarms happened from 1:45 am to 2:31 am, 11:34 am to 12:42 pm, 2:38 to 3:48 pm and from 10:30 pm to 11:42 pm. The following day, September 9, only one alarm sounded. However, in the morning of September 10 approximately 100 airplanes of the 8th US Air Force went over Heilbronn.