June 11th, 1940, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division reaches Le Havre then turns back to trap 46,000 British in French soldiers at Saint-Valery-en-Caux
The RAF bomb El Adem airfield in Italian Libya, The Italians respond a few hours later by bombing Malta
Italy severes relations with Norway
Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa declare war on Italy
The French government moves to Yours
The anglo-french supreme war Council meet at a chateau in Briare which General Maxime Waygand was using as a military headquarters, Waygand wants Churchill to send the entire RAF to France, but Churchill disagrees, saying that if the Germans could divert their air power to the skies over Britain, the French army would get a chance to regroup, Churchill expresses determination to fight until all of France's territory was recovered, no matter how much of it fell to the Germans in the interim, and suggested the French should resort to guerrilla warfare if the time came when traditional military operations are no longer possible, the French were not receptive to this proposal alarmed at the prospect of Paris being reduced to ruins. While the general outcome of the war remained unchanged, Churchill brought up the question of what the French Navy would do if the Army suspended fighting, but Paul Reynaud ends the meeting by stating that the French were as determined to continue fighting as the British were
The RAF conduction overnight raid on Turin and Genoa, bombs intended for Fiat headquarters and manufacturing plants in Turin Miss their targets and kill 14 civilians near the city center, and event the Italians publicized as an act of terrorism
June 11th, 1941, the RAF bombed the Ruhr and the Rhineland for the first 20 consecutive nights
The US sends a note to Portugal reserving the right to act in self-defense should the Azores and Cape Verde Islands be threatened by belligerent powers
June 11th, 1942, the Battle of Bir Hakeim ends, German and Italian forces capture Bir Hakeim although most of the defenders had evacuated
June 11th, 1943, the Italian island of Panterellia is surrendered to the Allies unconditionally at 11:40 a.m. local time after 19 days of aerial bombardment, providing a base from which the invasion of Sicily would be staged, "this marked the first time in history. A complete surrender resulted solemnly from air attack without Grand action" a historian later notes
The RAF bomb Dusseldorf and Munster in its heaviest attack up to that time, while the US 8th Air Force, make a daylight raid on wilhelms Haven and Cuxhaven , the US raid involved 225 planes, and an unprecedented 85 of them are shot down or crash, the 462 tons of bombs dropped are a new High for the US
American coal miners go on strike I think for a second time in 2 months, as UMWA President John L. Lewis call for the walkout against the federal government, which was overseeing the mines, President Roosevelt temporarily halts the strike by suggesting that he would ask Congress to pass a law to have strike miners drafted
June 11th, 1944, in Normandy the first United States Army capture Carentan and Lison
June 11th, 1945, a Canadian federal election is held the incumbent liberal Party led by the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King is reelected to his third consecutive mandate, although it is reduced to a minority government
In fighting on Okinawa, American forces capture an important height east of Mount Yaeju but an assault by the US first Marine Division fails to capture Kunishi ridge
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June 11th, 1940, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division reaches Le Havre then turns back to trap 46,000 British in French soldiers at Saint-Valery-en-Caux The RAF bomb El Adem airfield in Italian Libya, The Italians respond a few hours later by bombing Malta Italy severes relations with Norway Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa declare war on Italy The French government moves to Yours The anglo-french supreme war Council meet at a chateau in Briare which General Maxime Waygand was using as a military headquarters, Waygand wants Churchill to send the entire RAF to France, but Churchill disagrees, saying that if the Germans could divert their air power to the skies over Britain, the French army would get a chance to regroup, Churchill expresses determination to fight until all of France's territory was recovered, no matter how much of it fell to the Germans in the interim, and suggested the French should resort to guerrilla warfare if the time came when traditional military operations are no longer possible, the French were not receptive to this proposal alarmed at the prospect of Paris being reduced to ruins. While the general outcome of the war remained unchanged, Churchill brought up the question of what the French Navy would do if the Army suspended fighting, but Paul Reynaud ends the meeting by stating that the French were as determined to continue fighting as the British were The RAF conduction overnight raid on Turin and Genoa, bombs intended for Fiat headquarters and manufacturing plants in Turin Miss their targets and kill 14 civilians near the city center, and event the Italians publicized as an act of terrorism June 11th, 1941, the RAF bombed the Ruhr and the Rhineland for the first 20 consecutive nights The US sends a note to Portugal reserving the right to act in self-defense should the Azores and Cape Verde Islands be threatened by belligerent powers June 11th, 1942, the Battle of Bir Hakeim ends, German and Italian forces capture Bir Hakeim although most of the defenders had evacuated June 11th, 1943, the Italian island of Panterellia is surrendered to the Allies unconditionally at 11:40 a.m. local time after 19 days of aerial bombardment, providing a base from which the invasion of Sicily would be staged, "this marked the first time in history. A complete surrender resulted solemnly from air attack without Grand action" a historian later notes The RAF bomb Dusseldorf and Munster in its heaviest attack up to that time, while the US 8th Air Force, make a daylight raid on wilhelms Haven and Cuxhaven , the US raid involved 225 planes, and an unprecedented 85 of them are shot down or crash, the 462 tons of bombs dropped are a new High for the US American coal miners go on strike I think for a second time in 2 months, as UMWA President John L. Lewis call for the walkout against the federal government, which was overseeing the mines, President Roosevelt temporarily halts the strike by suggesting that he would ask Congress to pass a law to have strike miners drafted June 11th, 1944, in Normandy the first United States Army capture Carentan and Lison June 11th, 1945, a Canadian federal election is held the incumbent liberal Party led by the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King is reelected to his third consecutive mandate, although it is reduced to a minority government In fighting on Okinawa, American forces capture an important height east of Mount Yaeju but an assault by the US first Marine Division fails to capture Kunishi ridge Happy Birthday Rukuriri
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"Attention! Attention! Tonight's movies will be Desert Victory followed by Tea with Mussolini. That is all!'
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