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[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Orm]

Hey.

[btd64]

Happy afternoon earthlings....GP

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[btd64]

Good afternoon ....GP

[Orm]

Goof morning. Gentlemen. Ladies.

[btd64]

Happy Halloween everyone ....GP

[RangerJoe]

Happy Halloween everyone ....GP

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It is only Halloween in the evening!

[BBfanboy]

On that costume, I hope she made a cloaca hole ...

[Apollo11]

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Good day!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good afternoon folks!

World War II Today: October 31 – Happy Halloween

1939
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov boasts: “One swift blow to Poland, first by the German Army and then by the Red Army, and nothing was left of this ugly offspring of the Versailles Treaty!”. He also accuses the British of aggression.

1940
The Battle of Britain is now considered as over by the British Air Ministry.

British civilian casualty figures announced for October: 6,334 killed and 8,695 seriously injured.

British troops occupy Canea in Crete. Italians claim advance towards Salonika in Greece.

RAF bomb Naples for the first time.

1941
The US destroyer Reuben James escorting Convoy HX-156 is sunk by U-552 (Kapitainleutnant Erich Topp) with the loss of 100 of her crew. The destroyer is the first US naval casualty in the hitherto undeclared war between Germany and the United States that existed after President Roosevelt authorized the use of American naval vessels to escort Lend-Lease convoys bound for Britain.

British air raid casualties in October remain low at 262 killed. RAF raid occupied Europe on all but six days with Hamburg and Cologne bombed three times. Dover the only serious British casualty.

The RAF’s Mediterranean raids continue, with Benghazi being bombed 14 times and Tripoli 10 times.

1943
The U.S. Fifth Army resumes its offensive to the North of the Volturno.

1944
The British reach the river Mass, south of Rotterdam and establish a bridgehead. The Canadians reach Walcheren.

25 Mosquitoes make a highly successful low-level attack on the Gestapo HQ in Aarhus, Denmark, killing 200 Gestapo officials and destroying all records on the Dutch resistance movement.

On the orders of Prime Minister Churchill, British troops occupy Saloniki in Greece to assist the new government in its efforts to prevent a take-over by Communist insurgents in the wake of the recent withdrawal of German troops from Greece.

[Orm]

British air raid casualties in October remain low at 262 killed. RAF raid occupied Europe on all but six days with Hamburg and Cologne bombed three times. Dover the only serious British casualty.

Any clarification on what the serious British casualty at Dover was?

[Orm]

25 Mosquitoes make a highly successful low-level attack on the Gestapo HQ in Aarhus, Denmark, killing 200 Gestapo officials and destroying all records on the Dutch resistance movement.

Should it not be the records on the Danish resistance?

xxxxx

Thank you for yet another interesting read.

[RangerJoe]

Good afternoon folks!

World War II Today: October 31 – Happy Halloween

1944
The British reach the river Mass, south of Rotterdam and establish a bridgehead. The Canadians reach Walcheren.

In Dutch, it is the Maas, while in French it is the Meuse. The Dutch even gave it a new outlet to the sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse

Orm, I could not find anything about Dover in 1941 but the area was targeted by German artillery.

Have a nice evening and a better tomorrow!

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good day!


Leo "Apollo11"

[Zovs]

Good afternoon folks!

Auto Correct is a curse and a blessing at times.


World War II Today: November 1

1936
In a speech in Milan, Benito Mussolini described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Rome and Berlin.

1940
British mine Bay of Biscay.

Turkey declares itself neutral in Greco-Italian war.

RAF and Fleet Air Arm aircraft attack targets in Naples and Brindisi on the Italian mainland and Albanian ports.

1941
The German government issues a statement denying the charges made by President Roosevelt that the US destroyers Greer and Kearney were attacked by German submarines without any provocation; that the exact opposite was true in that the U-boats fired torpedoes only after they were tracked and depth-charged for hours by these US vessels.

German troops of the 11th Army take Simferopol, the capital of the Crimea and close in on Sevastopol.

1942
In their advance toward Ordshonikidse in the Caucasus, units of III Panzer Corps capture Alagir on the upper Terek river.

1943
The Red Army achieves a landing across the Strait of Kerch from the Taman peninsula and also severs all German land links with the Crimea.

The US 3rd Marine Division lands at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island in the Solomon’s. A confused naval battle follows.

1944
The first of 9,000 balloon bombs launched against US from Tokyo reach the U.S.A. One bomb kills six people near Lakeview in Oregon.

“Operation: Infatuate I” begins as the British Royal Marines and Army Commandos land on Dutch island of Walcheren off the Scheldt Estuary during the in an attempt to clear the German defenders from this strategic island. “Operation: Infatuate II” was the amphibious landing at Westkapelle, also conducted on the morning of 1 November.

1945
British Intelligence reports that Hitler probably committed suicide on the 30th April in Berlin after marrying his mistress, Eva Braun.

[RangerJoe]

Good afternoon folks!

Auto Correct is a curse and a blessing at times.

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I am so grapefruit for autocorrect!

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But I have beer!

[Orm]

Morning. Gentlemen. Ladies.

[Zovs]

Good morning folks!

Hope your doing well.

World War II Today: November 2

1939
The first transport of Polish women arrives at Ravensbruck concentration camp.

1942
Bitter street fighting continues in Stalingrad with neither side making much progress. Kleist’s final Caucasus advance ends as the 13th Panzer Division of III Panzer Corps approaches the outskirts of Ordshonikidse, the southeastern-most point in Russia to be reached by the Wehrmacht.

Operation ‘Supercharge’, the breakout at El Alamein gets under way. Rommel has only 32 Panzer’s left intact.

Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Africa.

In New Guinea, Australians reoccupy Kokoda and its airfield on way from Port Moresby to Buna, New Guinea.

At Bell Island, Newfoundland, torpedo from U-boat U-518 hits dock, the only direct German attack on North American land in the war; two ships are sunk.

1943
The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in Bougainville ends in U.S. Navy victory over Japan.

1944
The Canadians take Zeebrugge, the last corner of occupied Belgium, on Channel coast. The Canadian 2nd Division withdraws from a 700 yard deep bridgehead in Walcheren. All eligible Germans are ordered to enroll in Volksturm on pain of court-martial.

The United States 28th Division is ordered to clear the Germans out of the Hurtgen Forest and is nearly destroyed in the attempt.

German forces manage to stop the Russians at Kraisevo, enabling the Second Panzer Army to establish a firm line west of Belgrade.

The Red Army enters the southeastern suburbs of Budapest.

[btd64]

Zovs, keep it up. I like the reading....GP

UNP....GP