Table of Data Points

Tag : Combat

1940-10-21Liverpool Bombed

Liverpool is bombed for the 200th time.

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1940-10-20Cairo Bombed

Italian aircraft bomb Cairo.

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1940-10-20Bahrain Bombed

Italian aircraft bomb American-operated oil refineries in the British Protectorate of Bahrain.

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1940-10-15Italy plans to Invade Greece

Mussolini decides to invade Greece.

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1940-10-07Romania

Germany occupies Romania and it's valuable oil fields. Part of a strategy to create an unbroken Eastern front to menace the Soviet Union.

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1940-09-24Gibralter

Vichy French aircraft bomb Gibraltar.

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1940-09-24Bombing Berlin

RAF mounts large bombing raid on Berlin.

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1940-09-221940-09-26Japanese in North Vietnam

Despite an accord between Japan and Vichy Indochina which granted basing and transit rights, fighting breaks out between Japanese troops and French Colonial troops defending Hanoi. Japanese forces take Hanoi and establish positions that blockade China.

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1940-09-17Operation Sealion Postponed

Operation Sealion is postponed until further notice.

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1940-09-16Conscription

Introduction of the first peacetime conscription act (Selective Training and Service Act of 1940) in United States history.

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