Cool story. Let’s hope this gets preserved.
What happened on your birthday in WW2?
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Quite an interesting selection…
September 11th’s…
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, the country’s first independent declaration of war
1940 – George Stibitz performs the first remote operation of a computer.
1941 – Ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration of pressing for war with Germany.
1943 – World War II: German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo-Metohija.
1943 – World War II: Start of the liquidation of the Ghettos in Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany.
1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 – World War II: Australian 9th Division forces liberate the Japanese-run Batu Lintang camp, a POW and civilian internment camp on the island of Borneo. -
Well done Garg.
Sept 11th is an excellent Birthday for world battles!Here are 3: Stirling Bridge in Scotland, saw William Wallace defeat an English army in 1297, while Edward I was in France fighting them. ( Is in “Braveheart”.)
Eugene of Savoy(the cruiser that escorted the Bismarck was named after this great Catholic General and scourge of France and the Turk alike)won two battles today: Zenta and Malplaquet in 1697 and 1709.
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In all seriousness, does flight 93 constitute a battle?
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I would say no.
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I don’t see why not?
Clearly it was an open conflict once it started, citizens stood in defence of their country against an aggressor (Like the Alamo), all in an attempt to save lives, which they hoped would include their own.
There was a clear strategic goal (Control of the plane), undoubtedly multi-national alliances were forged, and no less than a battle ensued.
It has a clear beginning, and a clear end, and it was part of a larger scale conflict.
The other hijackings wouldn’t count, because there was no resistance.
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If you ever need info, just P.M. and I’ll look up the date for ya
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May 14, 1940
Holland capitulates. 9th Panzer’s Corps commander General Rudolf Schmidt threatens to bomb Rotterdam unless the Dutch garrison surrenders. Although the surrender is agreed, Luftwaffe planes do not get the order to abort & drop 95 tons of bombs destroying most of the city (1000 civilians killed, 85000 made homeless). General Schmidt will be awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross on 3 June 1940 for his role in the campaign in Holland.Dutch Commander-in-Chief General Winkelman instructs his forces to lay down arms, although sporadic fighting continues for a few days. Dutch have 2300 dead, 7000 wounded (plus 3000 civilians killed). German lose 2900 killed and missing, 7000 wounded and 1300 airborne troops, captured on the first day, imprisoned in Britain.
Rommel secures his narrow bridgehead at Dinant by personally leading 30 tanks to drive French and Belgian troops back 3 miles to the Belgian border village of Onhaye (his tank is hit & a shell splinter wounds his cheek). 7th Panzer crosses the Meuse in strength. Further South at Sedan, Guderian also has his 3 divisions of Panzers across.
In central Belgium, General Erich Hoepner rashly sends 3rd & 4th Panzer Divisions in pursuit of Prioux’s Corps de Cavalerie. At Gembloux they come under fire from emplaced French artillery, losing many tanks.
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May 14, 1943 - The German submarine U-657 is sunk by naval land-based aircraft (VP-84) in the north Atlantic.
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Free French penetrate German line
Sunday, May 14, 1944 www.onwar.com
May 14, 1944
In Italy… The attacks by forces of the US 5th Army continue. The French Expeditionary Corps advances into the Ausente Valley, capturing Ausonia, and continue to advance over the Aurunci Mountains toward the next German defensive line, which is not occupied in strength at this time. The US 2nd Corps makes progress against the defending German 94th Division.Over Britain… The Luftwaffe conducts a night raid on Bristol and southwestern England with 91 planes of which 15 are lost.
In the North Sea… German E-boats attack Allied landing craft lying off the coast of Britain near the Isle of Wight. The Free French destroyer La Combattante sinks S-141 in which the second son of Admiral Donitz, Klaus Donitz, is serving. The entire crew is lost at sea.
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Thanks MidnightExpress.
Those Bomber losses seem high for 1944: 12%.
Have just been reading about Malta: Italy and UK fighting and supporting the island. Seems remarkable and audacious transporting those planes with the Italians out there with 7 battleships( not all operational of course). -
Funny what different people think and fear.
I thought by 1944 the Allies had got the better of the Germans in the Air War bombing.
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Crete was invaded on my birthday! (may 20th)
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Nice Axistiger.
Was a waste of German resources though.
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November 26 1939: At 2.30 PM, Red Army stages a false flag border incident to justify the coming invasion of Finland.
November 26 1941: The Japanese Hawaii task force leaves the Kurile Islands, bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 26 1942:
-The movie Casablanca premières at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
-A British SOE team, together with Greek Resistance fighters, blows up the Gorgopotamos viaduct in the first major sabotage act in occupied continental Europe.LOL, some real winners there. And NO ONE is allowed to call me Gorgopotamous…
You know… in review, I have to say that basically each of these events is a BACKSTAB/SURPRISE move.
What does that say about me? LOL
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November 26 1939: At 2.30 PM, Red Army stages a false flag border incident to justify the coming invasion of Finland.
November 26 1941: The Japanese Hawaii task force leaves the Kurile Islands, bound for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 26 1942:
-The movie Casablanca premières at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.
-A British SOE team, together with Greek Resistance fighters, blows up the Gorgopotamos viaduct in the first major sabotage act in occupied continental Europe.LOL, some real winners there.� And NO ONE is allowed to call me Gorgopotamous…
You know… in review, I have to say that basically each of these events is a BACKSTAB/SURPRISE move.
What does that say about me? LOL
I don´t know Aleposita ?? I thought you were canadian and not a Greek??! Hellas
Maybe it means you are a Bridge bomber ,not a backstabber  8-) 8-) count your fingers ,all there lol… -
August 30th
1940 – The Second Vienna Award re-assigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1942 – World War II: the Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base. -
My ex wife"s b day was on june 22nd
In retrospect it seems quite appropriate
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Sorry to hear that Barney.
That is probably one of the coolest dates i can think of.
I think if she had been my wife she would have left because I never shut up about what a great birthday she had: she would have tired of my telling everyone we knew and met and eventually got sick of my obsession with it. -
@wittmann:
Sorry to hear that Barney.
That is probably one of the coolest dates i can think of.
I think if she had been my wife she would have left because I never shut up about what a great birthday she had: she would have tired of my telling everyone we knew and met and eventually got sick of my obsession with it.you could have called her by the nick name Barbarossa!
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not to be confused with barbarella
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