The Year 1940.....

The Year 1940.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 At dawn, 0243 hours, 15 British Fleet Air Arm Skua.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 British submarine HMS Odin attacked Italian cruise.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 German submarine U-25 sank British armed merchant.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Launching of North Carolina, New York Navy Yard, B.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Maxime Weygand declared Paris, France an open city.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Rear Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. relieved Vice.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 Soviet troops began amassing on the borders of Lat.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 The American armed vessel Eastern Prince, first of.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 The battleship USS North Carolina was launched at.....
On Thurs. 13 Jun 1940 William Halsey was promoted to the rank of vice ad.....
On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 According to Alfred Jodl's diary entry for this da.....
On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 British Foreign Minister Lord Halifax began to ask.....
On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 First "bombe" decipher machine became operational.....
On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 HMS Eagle suffered an accidental bomb explosion wh.....
On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 The Finnish Parliament met and debated over the ra.....
On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 The first of the over 450,000 Finnish civilians in.....
On Thurs. 14 Mar 1940 Viktor Abakumov was promoted to the rank of State.....
On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 A massive night time raid on Coventry, England by.....
On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 As Greek troops began to cross into Albanian borde.....
On Thurs. 14 Nov 1940 German bombers raided Alexandria, Egypt, sinking E.....