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To celebrate victory in World War II, King George VI (1936 - 1952) of Great Britain issued on the 8th June 1946 to all boys and girls at school their very own Family's War Record. This Family War Record highlighted key points during World War II from 1939 through to 1945. Show below is a scanned copy of my Aunties Family War Record that she received during her school years. These are the type of documents that can be discovered when you start to research your Family Tree.
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War Year - 1939 Sep 1 - Germany invaded Poland Sep 3 - Great Britain and France declard war on Germany; the B.E.F. began to leave for France Dec 13 - Battle of the River Plate War Year 1940 Apr 9 - Germany invaded Denmark and Norway May 10 - Germany invaded the Low Countries June 3 - Evacuation from Dunkirk completed June 8 - British troops evacuated from Norway June 11 - Italy declared war on Great Britain June 22 - France capitulated June 29 - Germans occupied the Channel Isles Aug 8 to Oct 31 - German air offensive against Great Britain (Battle of Britain) Oct 28 - Italy invaded Greece Nov 11 to 12 - Successful attack on the Italian Fleet in Taranto Harbour Dec 9 to 11 - Italian invasion of Egypt defeated at the battle of Sidi Barrani War Year 1941 Mar 11 - Lease-Lend Bill passed in U.S.A. Mar 28 - Battle of Cape Matapan Apr 6 - Germany invaded Greece Apr 12 to Dec 9 - The Siege of Tobruk May 20 - Formal surrender of remnants of Italian Army in Abyssinia May 20 to 31 - Battle of Crete May 27 - German battleship Bismark sunk June 22 - Germany invaded Russia Aug 12 - Terms of the Atlantic Charter agreed Nov 18 - British offensive launched in the Western Desert Dec 7 - Japanese attached Pearl Harbour Dec 8 - Great Britain and United States of America declard war on Japan War Year 1942 Feb 15 - Fall of Singapoer Apr 16 - George Cross awarded to Malta Oct 23 to Nov 4 - German-Italian army defeated at El Alamein Nov 8 - British and American forces landed in North Africa |
War Year 1943 Jan 31 - The remnants of the 6th German Army surrendered at Stalingrad May - Final victory over the U-Boats in the Atlantic May 13 - Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered July 10 - Allies invaded Sicily Sep 3 - Allies invaded Italy Spet 8 - Italy Capitulated Dec 26 - Scharnhorst sunk of North Cape War Year 1944 Jan 22 - Allied troops landed at Anzio June 4 - Rome captured June 6 - Allies landed in Normandy June 13 - Flying-bomb (V1) attack on Britain started June - Defeat of Japanese invasion of India Aug 25 - Paris Liberated Sep 3 - Brussels Liberated Sep 8 - The first rocket-bomb (V2) fell on England Sep 17 to 26 - The Battle of Arnhem Oct 20 - The Americans re-landed in the Philippines War Year 1945 Jan 17 - Warsaw Liberated Mar 20 - British recaptured Mandalay Mar 23 - British crossed the Rhine Apr 25 - Opening of Conference of United Nations at San Francisco May 2 - German forces in Italy surrendered May 3 - Rangoon recaptured May 5 - All the German forces in Holland, N.W Germany and Denmark surrendered unconditionally May 9 - Unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allies ratified in Berlin June 10 - Australian troops landed in Borneo Aug 6 - First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Aug 8 - Russia declared war on Japan Aug 9 - Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki Aug 14 - The Emperor of Japan broadcast the unconditional surrender of his country Sep 5 - British forces re-entered Singapore |
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