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June 11, 1940 (Tuesday) Rommel's 7th Panzer Division reached Le Havre, then turned back to trap 46,000 British and French soldiers at Saint-Valery-en-Caux. [ 1] The RAF bombed the El Adem airfield in Italian Libya. The Italians responded a few hours later by bombing Malta. [ 6] The Siege of Malta began.
René Marie Murat Auberjonois ( / rəˈneɪ oʊˌbɛərʒənˈwɑː /; [ 1] June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor, best known for playing Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) and Clayton Endicott III on Benson (1979-1986). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a ...
As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation of British and other Allied forces to Britain from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, the Battle of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940. To the east, the German Army Group B invaded the Netherlands and advanced ...
The state of the Allies (blue), and the Axis powers (black) with the Soviet Union (red) in May 1940. The German Blitzkrieg offensive of mid-May, 1940. Map of the British invasion of Iceland in mid-May 1940. 1 May: Allies begin evacuating Norwegian ports; the efforts will continue until June. 5 May: Norwegian government in exile established in ...
1940 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1940th year of the Common Era (CE ... June 1. René Auberjonois, American screen actor (d.
The campaign was fought until 10 June 1940 and saw the escape of King Haakon VII and Crown Prince Olav to the United Kingdom. A British, French and Polish expeditionary force of 38,000 troops landed in the north. It had moderate success but made a rapid strategic retreat after the Battle of France began on 14 May.
v. t. e. " We shall fight on the beaches " was a speech delivered by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France; the others are the "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech of ...
More than 338,000 Allied soldiers were rescued by small boats from Dunkirk in nine days between May 26 and June 4 1940. Now Historic England and its French counterpart, Drassm, have carried out ...