September 1939 |
World War 2 began |
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August 1940 |
Battle of Britain |
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November 1940 |
Coventry bombed |
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February 1942 |
Sir Arthur Harris appointed head of British Bomber Command |
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March 1942 |
Operation Millennium - 1000 bombers raided the German city of Cologne, 450,000 people made homeless, 469 killed |
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July 1943 |
Operation Gomorrah - a third of the city of Hamburg destroyed, 42,000 civilians killed |
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June 1944 |
D-Day - Allied armies launched an invasion of France |
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13 February 1945 |
First raid on Dresden |
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February 1945 |
Allied armies invaded Germany |
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May 1945 |
Germany surrendered to the Soviet Army |
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