| date |
year |
description of clip |
| 01 Jun |
1945 |
Japanese retreat on Okinawa
|
| 02 Jun |
1944 |
Eisenhower inspects troops preparing for D-Day
|
| 03 Jun |
1944 |
Allied troops are poised to take Rome - it falls the following day
|
| 04 Jun |
1940 |
Evacuation of Dunkirk is completed
|
| 05 Jun |
1942 |
Battle of the Midway - 4th-7th June
|
| 06 Jun |
1944 |
D-Day
|
| 07 Jun |
1940 |
Norwegian King and Government leave the country and Norway capitulates
|
| 08 Jun |
1940 |
Convoy war stepped up
|
| 09 Jun |
1940 |
German drive into France picks up speed
|
| 10 Jun |
1940 |
Mussolini attacks southern France
|
| 11 Jun |
1940 |
Rommel breaks out of the 'Cauldron'
|
| 12 Jun |
1940 |
Churchill flies to France
|
| 13 Jun |
1944 |
'44 first V1 lands on London
|
| 14 Jun |
1945 |
US breakthrough on Okinawa
|
| 15 Jun |
1944 |
US troops land on Saipan
|
| 16 Jun |
1940 |
Paul Reynaud resigns as he refuses to capitulate
|
| 17 Jun |
1940 |
Marshal Petain asks for armistice
|
| 18 Jun |
1944 |
Soviet Army break through Mannerheim Line
|
| 19 Jun |
1944 |
Battle of the Philippine Sea
|
| 20 Jun |
1942 |
Rommel attacks Tobruk
|
| 21 Jun |
1941 |
The night before the attack on the Soviet Union
|
| 22 Jun |
1940 |
Cease fire agreement (surrender) signed between Germany and France in Compiegne
|
| 23 Jun |
1942 |
Report from Berchtesgaden - Eva Braun enjoys life
|
| 24 Jun |
1940 |
Cease fire agreement signed between French and Italians
|
| 25 Jun |
1942 |
British Eighth Army retreats to Mersa Matruh
|
| 26 Jun |
1941 |
Finland declares war on the Soviet Union
|
| 27 Jun |
1944 |
German pocket near Vitebsk destroyed
|
| 28 Jun |
1942 |
Start of operation 'Fall Blau' - the German drive towards the Caucasus and Stalingrad
|
| 29 Jun |
1944 |
US forces liberate Cherbourg
|
| 30 Jun |
1940 |
Germans occupy the Channel Islands
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