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The Battle for the Hague 1940: The First Great Airborne Operation in History. Aspekt BV. ISBN 978-90-5911-307-7. Doorman, P. L. G. (1944). Military Operations in the Netherlands from 10th-17th May, 1940. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Harff, D.; Harff, P. (2012). Valkenburg mei 1940, de strijd om het vliegveld en het dorp (in Dutch). P.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1940 riots (2 P) S. Second Sino-Japanese War (11 C, 89 P) W. Western Desert campaign (2 C, 67 P) ... Fighter-bomber attacks on the United Kingdom during World War II;
ISBN 978-1-101-90417-6. Mather, Carol (9 April 1997). When the Grass Stops Growing. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-0-85052-576-2. Mortimer, Gavin (20 June 2012). The Daring Dozen: 12 Special Forces Legends of World War II. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-78096-454-6. Mortimer, Gavin (20 April 2015a). Stirling's Desert Triumph: The SAS Egyptian Airfield Raids ...
A retractable gun turret at Fort Ében-Émael. On 10 May 1940, Germany launched Fall Gelb ("Plan Yellow"), the invasion of the Low Countries and France. By attacking through the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium, the German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht planned to outflank the Maginot Line, and advance through southern Belgium and into northern France, cutting off the British Expeditionary ...
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.