date |
year |
description of clip |
01 Oct |
1943 |
US Fifth Army enters Naples
|
02 Oct |
1941 |
Operation Typhoon - the relaunch of the attack on Moscow
|
03 Oct |
1940 |
Chamberlain resigns from Cabine
|
04 Oct |
1940 |
Hitler and Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass
|
05 Oct |
1939 |
Poland is finally defeated
|
06 Oct |
1939 |
Hitler offers peace to the West in speech
|
07 Oct |
1940 |
Dog fights at Hell's Corner (Dover) during the Battle of Britain
|
08 Oct |
1941 |
Konoye's government in Japan resigns and General Hideki Tojo becomes prime minister
|
09 Oct |
1943 |
Himmler visits KZ-camp
|
10 Oct |
1939 |
Goering decorates German soldiers after the Polish offensive
|
11 Oct |
1944 |
US aircraft attack Luzon - Aachen shelled
|
12 Oct |
1943 |
Allied troops establish front from the River Volturna to Termoli in Italy
|
13 Oct |
1943 |
Italy declares war on Germany
|
14 Oct |
1944 |
Rommel dies - suicide?
|
15 Oct |
1946 |
Goering commits suicide while awaiting execution
|
16 Oct |
1940 |
RAF bombs Kiel
|
17 Oct |
1942 |
Bitter fighting on Kokoda Trail at Eora Creek
|
18 Oct |
1943 |
Yugoslav partisans in the ascendancy
|
19 Oct |
1941 |
The T-34 proves a match for German panzer
|
20 Oct |
1944 |
US troops land on Leyte
|
21 Oct |
1941 |
Zhukov appointed as defender of Moscow
|
22 Oct |
1943 |
The Corsair in action over the Pacific
|
23 Oct |
1942 |
Start of second Battle of El Alamein
|
24 Oct |
1944 |
Battle of Leyte Gulf (23rd - 25th)
|
25 Oct |
1942 |
Rommel returns to North Africa after illness
|
26 Oct |
1942 |
Battle of Santa Cruz - US carrier USS Hornet sunk by Japanese carrier aircraft
|
27 Oct |
1944 |
Kamikaze attack US naval forces in the Philippines
|
28 Oct |
1940 |
Italian troops crosses the Albanian-Greek border
|
29 Oct |
1940 |
British troops sail from Egypt for Crete
|
30 Oct |
1942 |
Australians drive north at El Alamein
|
31 Oct |
1940 |
King and Queen inspect damage during the Blitz
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