| September 11th
September 11th
1939 - France notifies the League of Nations that it is at war with Germany, as of 1700 hours September 3.
1939 - The British Ministry of Information announces the British Government would not conclude peace with a German Government headed by Adolf Hitler.
1939 - President Juan Arosema of Panama proclaims the neutrality of Panama.
1940 - Adolf Hitler postpones invasion of Great Britain to September 24.
1942 - In the St. Lawrence River, near Cap Chat, Quebec, Canada, submarine U-517 torpedoes and sinks Royal Canadian Navy corvette Charlottetown. Ten die.
1942 - 479 British aircraft attack Düsseldorf. 20,000 are made homeless.
1943 - The Italian Navy surrenders its warships to the Allies at Malta.
1944 - Allied forces on land cross into Germany.
1944 - The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada (Black Watch) of the 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade captures the town or Spycker in northern France.
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
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