Archive for June, 2010
Added during 2010
2010-06-29
24 June, 1940 Compared with the old Supermarine assembly plant in Eastleigh, the white office building of de Havilland Aircraft Company in Hatfield was ...
2010-06-28
27 June 2010 So England was dumped out of the World Cup 2010 in humiliating fashion, having lost 1-4 to Germany. Let’s break the ...
2010-06-23
19-23 June 1940 British evacuation from the continent was finally complete and, overall, a success: some 144,000 returned to UK. Left behind in France were ...
2010-06-21
19 June 1940 19 June was the day when, for the first time since the beginning of German offensive in the West, Luftwaffe bombers ...
2010-06-18
18 June 1940 The French had surrendered. The newly appointed French Prime Minister Philippe Pétain had broadcast that “with a broken heart” he requested ...
2010-06-17
17 June 1940 At about seven o’clock in the morning of 17 June, the ground personnel of No. 73 Squadron embarked on a boat ...
2010-06-16
14-18 June 1940 After the order of final withdrawal, Dowding’s last remaining units in France, Nos. 1, 73 and 501 Squadrons together with other surviving ...
2010-06-15
I have been long contemplating commemorating the 70th Anniversary ot the Battle of Britain in a special way, and I have decided: I am post-blogging the events of the Battle as they unveiled 70 years ago. Read more inside.
2010-06-14
14 June 1940 In France, chaos was increasing with every hour. Paris fell, and RAF gave order to its remaning squadrons on the continent ...
2010-06-12
Another contribution by Marek Jurczyk, architect and draughtsman living in Poland. This card was created as a gift to a modeller friend, who made ...
