WWII TIMELINE 2 DATE

Nov 9-10 Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
1939 Mar. 15-16 German troops occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia in violation of Munich Agreement
Mar. 28 Spanish Civil War ends
Aug. 23 Nazi-Soviet nonagression pact signed
Sept. 1 German Army invades Poland
Sept. 3 Britain and France declare war on Germany
Sept. 17 Red Army invades Poland ie.. NaziSoviet Pact
Sept. 27 Warsaw falls to the Nazis
Nov. 30 Red Army attacks Finland Winter War
Dec. 14 Soviet Union kicked out of League of Nations
1940 Mar. 12 Finland signs peace treaty with Soviet Union
April 9 German Army invades Denmark and Norway
May 10 German Army invades France, Belgium,
Luxembourgand the Netherlands;
Winston Churchill appointed British Prime Minister

May 15 Holland capitulates to Nazis
May 26 "Miracle at Dunkirk"

ADHoC Mi(R)
1 PC's AdHOc Rescue Dr g.
Car chase sceen in Antwerp in a long nose benz, shooting it out with Gestapo in black sedans.
Game of chicken with an armored car ends badly, Russel has a gernade go off in his hand.
Effected by G-WAve
Stolenl trawler to makes it to England with Proff.
Russel & Merril make their way back independantly later. in a stolen airplane.
Allmost enought gas to make it to england. They jump out before they hit the coast, & swim in.
Trawler straffed by Condor, engine damaged.
Condor shotdown by Alex


May 28 Belgium capitulates to Nazis

2 PC's in 2 canoe's skuttle part of Belgium Fleet 2-3 ships ADHoC Mi(R)
using the Captured Trawler the party launchs their raid & encounters little opposition


June 1940 Churchill directed that "self-contained, thoroughly equipped units" be sent to raid occupied coasts
June 3, 1940 - Germans bomb Paris; Dunkirk evacuation ends.

PC's Schools Language G Jump
3 PC's Rescue 9 Scientists held in an inn next to an old Castle. In the pooring rain, they approached up the riverbank. The UNknown SOldier falling in & ruining his disguise.
They alerted the guards on the way out & were followed by a car from the Castle.
Alex shot out the right front tire, while sitting in the pasenger side window & firing a MG34 over the roof. The pursuit car' right rim dug in, spectacularly flipping the car into the canal.
Escaped by Air, while under fire.
ADHoC Mi(R) `Maid Honour Force'After the captured trauler = SOE : MHForce

June 10 Norway capitulates to Nazis;
Italy declares war on Britain and France
June 14 Nazis take Paris
June 22 France capitulates to Nazis
July 1, 1940 - German U-boats attack merchant ships in the Atlantic.

July 3 PC's Jump School 2weeks, 1pt
4 PC's Ship taking practice lesson, 4
SOE : MHForce & local Bobbies with cooperation from the british navy

July 5, 1940 - French Vichy government breaks off relations with Britain.
July 9 As German air attacks over Britain intensify, the British Royal Air Force begins night bombing of German targets.
July 10 Battle of Britain begins
-* July 16 Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to take the fight to the enemy, and 'set Europe ablaze'.

5 -Pc's 2pts pre July 18 Reconn Buildup for Sea Lion
SOE : MHForce & SBS both missions Operation Woodpecker
5 -PC's 8-9pts July 21 bomb SeaLion barges Disable Flakk Batteries & sets Flairs for a bomber group to bomb SeaLion barges.
Air dropped in the Unsoldier manages to land in the river.
party moves forward to the pre-reconned site & approaches in disguise.
They disable several AA guns & take another & blow up the fule depot
they escape in a captured light costal craft, as the Heavy bombers start to plaster the area.

SUMMER 1940
July 23 Red Army takes Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
-Classes in Norvegien
Aug. 3 Italian Army invades British Somaliland
Aug. 13 Luftwaffe raids on British airfields & factories
Aug 15, 1940 - Air battles and daylight raids over Britain.
Aug 17, 1940 - Hitler declares a blockade of the British Isles
and begins a bombing campaign which, by September, will be killing hundreds each day. In November, German air raids will kill more than 4,500 Britons.

6 -PC's Pre-mission Aug18th Recon German AirfieldResistance
SOE : MHForce & SBS

Aug. 23-24 Off-course German bombers accidentally bomb London
Aug. 25-26 Royal Air Force mounts reprisal raid against Berlin
THE Blitz
Sept. 7 German "blitz" on British cities begins in earnest
Sept. 13 Italian Army attacks Egypt

6-Pc's 7-8pts Sneak into a German Airfield & steal a bomber -BLITZ
SOE : MHForce
in by float planes, merril does a wing over in hers & ends up unconsious, underwater, strapped into the open cockpit plane. Infiltrate the base in a captured supply truck.
PARTY TRANSFERED TO SOUTHERN COMMAND

-* Sept 15, 1940 - Massive German air raids on London, Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and Manchester.
Sept. 16 Military conscription introduced in United States
SEPTEMBER 1940 Dakar, West Africa Expedition (Operation 'Menace')
Free French troops led by Gen de Gaulle are carried in ships escorted and supported by units of the Home Fleet and Force H Pc- Close Order Drill, Training

SOE : MHForce & Free Colonial French Forces & british 2nd commando
7 -PC's 7-9 pts- capture a shore battery at Drakar -Operation Perseus

Attempts to negotiate on the 23rd fail and as Vichy French ships try to leave harbour, shore batteries open fire, damaging heavy cruiser "Cumberland" and two destroyers.
24th Dakar is bombarded by the warships The bombardment continues on the 25th
operation abandoned and the Anglo-Free French forces withdraw to malta. Via gibalter
Missions from Malta unless otherwise noted
Sept. 27 Tripartite alliance Germany, Italy and Japan

-PARTY end of "RT last gameFridayOct 22"
PARTY NOW BASED IN MALTA -- Sept 1940

Oct. 7 German troops occupy Romania
October 17 The Kearny, a U.S. destroyer, is torpedoed off the coast of Iceland by a German U-boat. On the 31st, the American destroyer Reuben James is sunk by a German U-boat, killing 100.
** Oct. 28 Italian Army attacks Greece (SOE) began to help and supply the resistance from November 1940.
Nov. 5 Roosevelt re-elected

SOE : MHForce & SAS
8 -Nov. 8--Skylla
Reccon Port Facility at Taranto
Steve blows up a fule dump
& they escape overland to the Italian eastcoast where they make their way out by e-boat.

Nov. 10-11 RAF raid cripples Italian fleet at Taranto
Nov.20 Romania joins Axis
Dec. 9-10 British counter-attack begins against Italian Army in North Africa
Dec 29/30 - Massive German air raid on London.

1941 SOE : MHForce & SBS
9-- JAN 12 5-7 pts Party Reccons Tobruk rtime 11-19-04
SOE : MHF given Honorary status 14th SDR Brithish Southern Command 8th army

Jan. 22 British take Tobruk in North Africa from Italians'
- February 1941, Layforce disembarked at Suez.
Feb. 11 British Army attacks Italian Somaliland
- Feb. 12 Erwin Rommel assumes command of German Afrika Korps Feb 14, 1941 - First units of German 'Afrika Korps' arrive in North Africa.
May 1, 1941 - German attack on Tobruk is repulsed.
Mar. 7 British Army comes to the aid of Greece
Mar. 11 Lend-Lease Act signed by Roosevelt
April 6 German Army hastily invades Yugoslavia and Greece
April 17 Yugoslavia capitulates to Nazis

10--- Skylla2 4-6 pts Party to drop into Greece to blow up Rail & Ammodump
April 24
aircraft shot down, Merl the backup pilot freaks, the team bails out over water.Unknown soldier finds out about undertow when he drops into the bay & tries to swim ashore with gearRT11-28-04 -End at Athens April 25th Evening

11a ATHENS Armly flanked at Athens by German motercycle corp russel blows ammo dump the hardway, ends up on heavy morphine sedation the rest of the mission. Party Withdrawing to Crete

- April 27 Greece capitulates to Nazis
May 10/11 - Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg.
May 10 Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland on "peace mission
May 15, 1941 - Operation Brevity begins (the British counter- attack in Egypt).
NORTH AFRICA

*11b** 20th May 1941 BATTLE OF CRETE

May 24 German battleship Bismarck sinks Hood, pride of the Royal Navy
May 27 Royal Navy sinks Bismarck
-7-8pts PartY end June 1 ON Cruser Perth Realtime 12-3-04

June 8 British Army invades Lebanon and Syria

-Perth bombed Party recovered to Alexandrea

June 14, 1941 - United States freezes German and Italian assets in America.
June 22 Hitler launches operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union
June 28 Germans capture Soviet city of Minsk
June - Nazi SS Einsatzgruppen begin mass murder.
July 3 Stalin launches "scorched earth" policy
July 31 Planning begins for "Final Solution," the systematic destruction of Jews
Merril & Russel only? Recovered to england

-12 13 -16 pts Operation Athena
-August 1941. in Vichy, France Codename(s): Diane Her cover was that of being a reporter for the New York Post.
Moved her a few months early.(RTearly 1942, she relocated to Lyons)
Party crime spree, One party member allmost killed by 12 year old with shotgun

Aug. 12 Atlantic Charter signed by Roosevelt and Churchill
Aug. 20 German siege of Soviet city of Leningrad begins

-13 -DESERT RATS 7-9pts
reccon in Lybia for Rommels armor with LRDG
Straffed by stukas. 20% losses
Steve gets a knife stuck in his head
SOE : MHForce incoperated 14 SDRecon Brithish Southern Command 8th army
Recovered to Alexandrea

Sept. 1 Jews order to wear yellow Star of David
Sept 3, 1941 - First experimental use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Sept. 19 Germans capture Soviet city of Kiev
Sept. 29 German SS mass murders Russian Jews at Kiev
Oct. 16 Germans capture Soviet city of Odessa
Oct. 17 Hideki Tojo becomes Prime Minister of Japan
Oct. 24 Germans capture Soviet city of Kharkov
Oct. 30 German Army occupies the Crimea
Nov 13, 1941 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal is sunk off Gibraltar by a U-boat.
NORTH AFRICA
**** 18 November 1941. An SAS attack on five enemy airfields was scheduled for the night before. General Auchinleck's major offensive

14-NORTH AFRICA 8pts-Operation Flipper.
*** Nov 18-21st 1941 The British Commando attack on General Rommel's headquarters in North Africa. Starts badly when less than 1/2 of the men get ashore due to the heavy seas.


Nov. 20 Germans capture the Soviet city of Rostov
Nov. 27 Red Army retakes Rostov
December 1941 Czechoslovak agents trained by SOE were parachuted into their own homeland on Operation Anthropoid. It was not until six months later, on 27 May 1942, that they were able to mount the attack - with the result that their quarry died of his wounds a week later.
Dec. 6 Red Army launches major counter-offensive
Dec. 7 1941 Japanese attack naval base at Pearl Harbor
Dec. 8 Roosevelt gives "Day of Infamy" speech; United States and Britain declare war on Japan

15 Operation Tempist * 11-10pts Based in alexandrea 14th Rec with Scrounged units from the 11th Commando, 17 Yeoman Guards, LRDG, & AustralianEF.. Guard supplys on a push to Tobruk. Alex field promoted to Lt & MID, steve gets MM captured PzKpfw III Ausf F
DECEMBER 10th, 1941 -British relieve besieged garrison at Tobruk. Rt 4-1-05
Captured PZIII enrout to US by steamship


Jan. 1 Allies forge Declaration of the United Nations
- Jan. 13 German U-boats sinking ships off American coast in "Operation Drumbeat"
Jan. 20 Nazis coordinate "Final Solution" efforts at Wannsee Conference
Jan. 21 Rommel counter-attacks in North Africa : Libya.
Jan. Mass gassing of Jews begins at Auschwitz
Jan 26, 1942 - First American forces arrive in Great Britain.
YANKS ARRIVE

Canadian steamship torpedoed, make repairs & back to america, new york by rail, ship to england
FEBRUARY 1942
16 * Operation Biting Bruneval Raid 9pts
- At midnight on 27 February 1942, a company of paratroopers was dropped inland of the radar station in three groups. Commandos carry out a raid on Bruneval in northern France to capture radar equipment. They are lifted off by Royal Navy coastal forces.
Muontbatten Head of Combineed Ops

March 20th GErmany's all out assault on Malta 3-4 + boming raids a day

March 22 Operation Vivid practice raid
March 28th Raid On St Nazaire (Operation Chariot) accomplishes objectives but at a heavy price.
Mission that the partisipating party would like to forget, you know who you are.....
we pretend it never happened

Party Sent back to Malta
Malta Party partisipates in setting up early EW GCI Radar

April 15 George Cross bestowed by King GeorgeVI on malta (includes party)
April 20th 47 Spitfires are sent to malta but are all destroyed on landing (Capt Milton assists pilots)

April 21st Photographic reconnaissance by FL LT Harry Coldbeck reveals 1,500 400yd glider landing strips are being prepared

April 21 - 23 Reconnasance party takes pictures of airfields on Sicaly
5-7pts-a 3-5pts-b (2 nights) 21-23rd Sicaly Reconnasance Party pictures of airfield, & operational info.
Loose 1 sunderland, 1 with 2 inner engines replaced by Merlins & has gunners rig wt 30's(all but rear {jump door)).
Capt mentioned 7 OBE'd Jones(Laura) MM'd reccomended

Early recon, ship lost pilot killed but navigator ditched With backupcamera Film! (Mentioned & Reccomened)
April 23 - End Mission RT=April 10th near death dive from fighters into base, Early morning They take merril to the hospital

23rd 39th General Hospital at St. Andrews destroyed by Ju 88s: other hospitals extensively damaged

May 9th Operation Bowery concludes as 63 fighters delivered from the carries Wasp & Eagle

May 25th Orders for the pary come in, they head for Tobruk
May 26th, 1942 -Afrika Korps goes on offensive in Libya.
30th Party heading into the desert for a recon. Hans Van Uder gets lost in the desert at night.
Early the next morning they Run into the front end of a DAK encirclement of the Gazala Line
Party witnesses the end of the South African as the Unit gets overrun
Hans with new friend Kirby capture a DAK armored car that was going to make the 2 prisoner.
Kirby fishes out a Map of DAK plans, Milton IMMEDIATLY runs this up to Tobruk.
Merril crashes their Waco Biplane on landing (ground loop)

June 6th Party Action-LAST CONVOY TO BirHacheim
Party assigned as covering force for convoy "A Proper command this time Eh?, Acting MAJOR."
Jones gets Acting 2nd LT
Steve drives his truck into a Wadi
Party survives attack by stukas & makes it into Bir Hachiem just infront of the final encirclement by DAK

June 8, 1942
Unable to follow-up his victory in “the Cauldron” battle three days earlier, due to lack of resources and the threats to the north and south, Rommel decides to secure his position by turning on the Free French position to the south at Bir Hakeim on the Gazala Line. 15th Panzer Division joined Trieste and 90th Light Divisions to assault the position. Heavy fighting was reported by the badly outnumber French Brigade.
June 10. Indian 2. Patrol receives orders to attack enemy transport on Jalo-Agedabiya road, & obtain preferably european prisoners to gain info on activities of Almasy

June 10, 1942 Party Action Hold out! Pull Out!! 13DBLE &1st BFLI evacuates the Box
After two days of heavy fighting, supplies dwindling to nothing, the Free French position at Bir Hakeim was abandoned. The Frenchmen, after two weeks of valiant struggle, capped their amazing defense by bringing the bulk of their forces out of the encirclement in tact.

June 10 Nazis annihilate Czech town of Lidice in retaliation for Heydrich's assassination
June 12 Radio Ga Ga
German radio announces that, "The white and colored Frenchmen made prisoner at Bir Hakeim, since they do not belong to any regular army, will be subject to the laws of war and will be executed." DeGaulle retorts that he must, regrettably, respond in kind. The following day the Germans announce a reversal of policy
June 14, 1942
General Ritchie, commander of the British 8th Army, orders a general retreat from the Gazala Line. The battle that started with a foolhardy advance by Rommel and came close to complete disaster for the Desert Fox ends in victory.
June 21 German Afrika Korps recaptures Tobruk
JUNE 24th, 1942 -Eisenhower assumes command of all US troops in Europe.
July 1-30 - First Battle of El Alamein.
Aug. 7 General Bernard Montgomery assumes command of British Eighth Army in North Africa
AUGUST 9th, 1942-Germans capture oilfields in Caucasus.
Aug 17, 1942 - First all-American air attack in Europe.


August 19
Canadian commando troops attack the coastal French city of Dieppe, Party action in Operation 'Jubilee' but German defends and Canadian casualties in dead, wounded and prisoners are high

AUGUST 23rd, 1942 -Battle for Stalingrad commences.
SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1942
-German troops reach center of Stalingrad but Soviet troops cling to part of city.
Oct 18, 1942 - Hitler orders the execution of all captured British commandos. Kommandobefehl
Oct. 23-Nov. 3 Afrika Korps decisively defeated by British at El Alamein
November 4th With Montgomery victorious at El Alamein, Rommel started his retreat in North Africa.

Nov 8, 1942 - Party Action Operation Torch begins (U.S. invasion of North Africa).A joint U.S.-British force of 400,000 troops, under the direction of General Eisenhower, begins landing at Casablanca, Oran and Algiers in Morocco and Algeria.. They will successfully overtake the French garrisons there.