Archive - World War II Today

Destroyers surprise 'Schnellboote'

20th November 1940: The first success against the Kriegsmarine motor torpedo boats, which menace the coastal waters around Britain

15 hrs ago

Blitz spreads across Britain

19th November 1940: A large raid on Leicester is a sign that bombing raids are becoming a familiar threat far beyond London - but RAF 'AI' is promising

Nov 19

Churchill dismayed by BBC broadcast

18th November 1940: A realistic approach to recording reactions to the bombing of Coventry does not fit the government's narrative

Nov 18

Tragedy of Operation White

17th November 1940: An attempt to send more fighter planes for the defence of the island of Malta ends in disaster

Nov 17

An excerpt from 'Taranto And Naval Air Warfare In The Mediterranean, 1940–1945'

Nov 16

The Greek fightback continues

16th November 1940: Greek Army Reservists are mobilised and march north into the mountains to confront the Italians

Nov 16

Warsaw Ghetto closed

15th November 1940: The largest Jewish population in Europe is suddenly imprisoned behind walls they have been forced to build

Nov 15

Coventry torn apart by firestorm

14th November 1940: The Luftwaffe's Operation 'Moonlight Sonata' is the most concentrated and most destructive of any bombing raid yet

Nov 14

Nightmare over Cologne

13th November 1940: Leonard Cheshire describes the horrors of a bombing raid when his aircraft is hit by flak

Nov 13

Nazi Soviet talks in Berlin

12th November 1940: Hitler continues to play Stalin along, as he talks of a New World Order which includes both Germany and the USSR

Nov 12

Italian fleet surprised at Taranto

11th November 1940: A night attack by Royal Navy carrier-based aircraft foreshadows 'Pearl Harbour' by a year

Nov 11

A forgotten war in East Africa

10th November 1940: Italian air superiority undermines the initial successes of a surprise attack by British forces in Sudan

Nov 10

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