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Tag : Aerial

1941-06-221941-12-05Barbarossa

Over 4.5 million Axis troops, transported by 600,000 motor vehicles and 750,000 horses, invade the USSR along a 2,900 km front. Despite tactical success, this would be the last German offensive across the entire eastern front.

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1941-06-081941-07-10Syria-Lebanon campaign

Successful Allied land, air and sea campaign against Vichy domination of Lebanon and Syria resulting in Free French control of Lebanon and Syria until those states gained independence and themselves declared war against the Axis powers

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1941-05-31Dublin Bombing

28 people are killed and 90 injured when Luftwaffe planes bomb a working class area of Dublin.

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1941-05-201941-05-30Operation Mercury

The Battle of Crete was a battle during World War II on the Greek island of Crete. The battle began on the morning of 20 May, 1941, when Nazi Germany launched an airborne invasion of Crete under the code-name Unternehmen Merkur ("Operation Mercury").

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1941-05-16Last German Air Raid

German bombers attack London in what would be the last major air raid on the British capital.

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1941-05-10House of Commons Bombed

The British House of Commons is damaged in a German air raid.

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1941-05-021941-05-05British bomb Bagdad

British bombers attack Iraqi positions at Habbaniya. The attacks would eventually lead to the withdrawal of Iraqi troops.

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1941-04-15Belfast Blitz

1000 people are killed when 200 German bombers attack Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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1941-04-061941-04-17Invasion of Yugoslavia

Attacking from Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, Axis troops sweep into Yugoslavia and overwhelm the defending Royal Yugoslav Army which surrendered unconditionally. Yugoslavia was subsequently divided amongst Germany, and it's allies.

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1941-02-23HMS Terror

After being spotted by a recon Ju-88, 5 Ju-88s from Catania made dive bomb attacks on the HMS Terror. She sunk the following morning. Terror was, by displacement, the largest warship sunk in the Mediterranean by Ju-88s during the entire war.

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