July 1939-1945

10

The Battle of Britain begins

▶1940

U.S destroyer USS Maddox sunk "by land-based aircraft bombs"

▶1943
11

British destroyer HMS Defender sunk

▶1941

U.S minesweeper USS Sentinel sunk

▶1943
12
13

U.S destroyer USS Gwin sunk "Battle of Kolombangara, by Japanese torpedoes"

▶1945
14

Italy declares war on Japan

▶1945
15
16

Hitler signs directive no 16, Operation "Sea Lion"

▶1940

The Second atomic bomb test is successfully exploded

▶1945

17

British submarine HMS Phoenix sunk "by Italian torpedo boat Albatros"

▶1940
18

Mein Kampf is published

▶1925
19

Major: John Donald Christopher Stuart MACRAE

▶1942
20

British destroyer HMS Brazen sunk

▶1940

British destroyer HMS Isis sunk

▶1944

Assassination Hitler, "Operation Valkyrie"

▶1944
21
22
23

The British "Home Guard" is officially established

▶1940

24

U.S destroyer escort USS Underhill sunk "by kaiten suicide torpedo"

▶1945
25

Operation Most III

▶1944
26

U.S submarine USS Robalo sunk "probably by naval mine"

▶1944
27

British submarine B-1 ex HMS Sunfish sunk "lost on passage to USSR with Soviet crew"

▶1944
28
29

British destroyer HMS Delight sunk

▶1940

U.S destroyer USS Callaghan sunk "by Kamikaze aircraft"

▶1945

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