date |
year |
description of clip |
01 Jul |
1941 |
Germans occupy Riga
|
02 Jul |
1942 |
US Joint Chief of Staff orders naval and ground forces to drive Japanese out of Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea
|
03 Jul |
1944 |
Two Soviet spearheads meet at Minsk
|
04 Jul |
1944 |
US Marines push ahead on Saipan
|
05 Jul |
1943 |
Start of the Battle of Kursk
|
06 Jul |
1943 |
B-17s operational in the Pacific
|
07 Jul |
1944 |
British Second Army attack Caen supported by RAF
|
08 Jul |
1943 |
Germans encounter problems at the Orel Salient
|
09 Jul |
1944 |
Caen taken by the British
|
10 Jul |
1943 |
Invasion of Sicily
|
11 Jul |
1940 |
Marshal Petain assumes title of Chief of French State (Vichy)
|
12 Jul |
1941 |
Molotov and the British ambassador to the Soviet Union sign treaty of mutual support
|
13 Jul |
1943 |
Soviet counter offensive at Kursk (12th July)
|
14 Jul |
1942 |
The Battle at Tel el Eisa and Ruweisat
|
15 Jul |
1941 |
Smolensk taken by Army Group Centre
|
16 Jul |
1945 |
First atomic test
|
17 Jul |
1944 |
Rommel staff car attacked by RAF aircraft
|
18 Jul |
1944 |
'Operation Goodwood' - tank battle in Normandy
|
19 Jul |
1940 |
Hitler repeat his peace offer of the previous year to the West - Churchill refuses
|
20 Jul |
1944 |
Attempt on Hitler's life
|
21 Jul |
1944 |
US Marines land on Guam
|
22 Jul |
1941 |
Japan prepares for invasion of southern Indochina
|
23 Jul |
1942 |
Hitler orders his forces in the east to split - one force against Stalingrad and one to go south
|
24 Jul |
1941 |
US oil embargo against Japan
|
25 Jul |
1943 |
Mussolini falls
|
26 Jul |
1943 |
RAF raid on Hamburg
|
27 Jul |
1944 |
US Forces break through west of St. Lo
|
28 Jul |
1942 |
Stalin issues the order: 'Not a step back'
|
29 Jul |
1944 |
Soviet spearhead reaches Baltic coast near Riga
|
30 Jul |
1944 |
First US Army reaches Avranches
|
31 Jul |
1944 |
Start of the Warsaw uprising
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