12-09-2010, 12:30 AM
Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:poliss Wrote:Anyone remember what happened on 3rd of September 1939? How many know that the Japanese shot down an RAF Catalina 20 hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Well, that would be the day that the war truely became a World War, isn't it? That IS another good point though. to many people in this country think WWII started after pearl harbor.
Other important dates a lot of Americans (and Norwegians too) doesn't necessarily know:
May 10th 1940
June 22nd 1941
October 23rd 1942
November 19th 1942
They are, respectively - the start of the German Blitzkrieg on the western front, the invasion of Russia, the start of Second Alamein and the start of Operation Uranus.
Grin,
Stein