Table of Data Points

Tag : Britain

1942-08-091942-08-15Operation Pedestal

Five of the original 14 merchant ships, dispatched to resupply the strategical crucial island of Malta, reach Grand Harbour. This tactical axis victory was one of the most important strategic allied victory of the war.

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1942-08-071943-02-09Guadalcanal Campaign

The Guadalcanal campaign marked the first significant strategic combined arms victory by Allied forces over the Japanese in the Pacific theater. For this reason, the Guadalcanal campaign is often referred to as a "turning point" in the war.

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1942-07-011942-07-27First El Alamein

British and commonwealth troops, following the retreat after Gazala, halt the Axis advance on Alexandria. This tactically inconclusive battle had a profound strategic affect on the Axis forces' ability to wage war.

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1942-06-23Focke-Wulf 190 captured

A Focke-Wulf Fw 190 mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey airfield after a dogfight over the Bristol channel. The first intact FW 190 captured for the allies by an air traffic controller armed with a flare gun.

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1942-06-211942-11-11Tobruk retaken

After a surprise offensive and victory at the Battle of Gazala, DAK and Italian troops led by Erwin Rommel capture the strategic seaport at Tobruk.

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1942-05-30Cologne Bombing

The first 1,000 bomber raid by the RAF was codenamed Operation Millennium. 1047 Aircraft were involved in the raid, with 868 of those dropping high explosive and incendiary bombs on the center of the city.

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1942-05-27Operation Anthropoid

The assassination of top German SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, a chief planner of the Final Solution, the Nazi German programme for the genocide of the Jews of Europe.

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1942-05-261942-06-21Gazala

Despite Rommel's resounding tactical defeat of the British 8th Army, Axis armour losses were irreplaceable. Rommel was not able to take advantage of this success.

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1942-05-08Cocos Island Mutiny

A failed attempt by soldiers of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery to disable the local British garrison and transfer control to the Japanese. The three executed ringleaders were the only British troops executed for mutiny during ww2.

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1942-05-031942-05-04Invasion of Tulagi

Japanese troops occupy the island of Tulagi to provide support and flank protection for Japanese forces that were advancing on Port Moresby in New Guinea. The occupation force also threatened communication lines between the US and Australia.

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