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Sunday, May 6, 2018

In 1944, RAF pilot, Ken Collier, has emptied his guns in a desperate attempt to take down a German V1 rocket. Refusing to give up, he flies right up to the rocket, and tries to ram it off course.

V-3 Cannon ..
Vergeltungswaffe 1 & Spitfire ..

Vergeltungswaffe 2 & America Space Rockets ..

Vergeltungswaffe 2 & America Space Rockets

The V-2 Missile Heist - mfp > .

V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile - Mega > .

V-1 & V-2 Flying Bombs | Hitler's ~~secret~~ vengeance weapons > .

V2 - America Rocket to A9-A10 - WW2 German Space Weapon > .

V-2 Rocket: Nazi Germany - World's 1st Guided Ballistic Missile - Mega > .

V-1 & V-2 Flying Bombs | Hitler's ~~secret~~ vengeance weapons > .

Poaching Brains post-WW2

Operation Paperclip: Recruiting Nazi Brains for the USA - 1 - WW2 Doc > .

How This Nazi Engineer Took America to the Moon - athe > .
Wernher von Braun: From Nazis to NASA - ScSh > .
How Ex-Nazis & Jewish Scientists Took The U.S. To The Moon > .

The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during WW2 in Germany as a "vengeance weapon", assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities. The V-2 rocket also became the first man-made object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.

Research into military use of long-range rockets began when the studies of graduate student Wernher von Braun attracted the attention of the German Army. A series of prototypes culminated in the A-4, which went to war as the V-2. Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets, first London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a 2011 BBC documentary, the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, and a further 12,000 forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners died as a result of their forced participation in the production of the weapons.

As Germany collapsed, teams from the Allied forces—the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—raced to capture key German manufacturing sites and technology. Wernher von Braun and over 100 key V-2 personnel surrendered to the Americans and many of the original V-2 team ended up working at the Redstone Arsenal. The US also captured enough V-2 hardware to build approximately 80 of the missiles. The Soviets gained possession of the V-2 manufacturing facilities after the war, re-established V-2 production, and moved it to the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket .

Paperclip - poaching German scientists ..

V-3 Cannon ..
Vergeltungswaffe 1 & Spitfire ..

Vergeltungswaffe 2 & America Space Rockets ..

Wunderwaffen

Germany's Wonder-Weapons | Armchair > .

? Wunderwaffe ?

Wunderwaffe is German for "wonder weapon" and was a term assigned during World War II by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry to some revolutionary "superweapons". Most of these weapons however remained prototypes, which either never reached the combat theater, or if they did, were too late or in too insignificant numbers to have a military effect.

The V-weapons, which were developed earlier and saw considerable deployment, especially against London and Antwerp, trace back to the same pool of highly inventive armament concepts. Therefore, they are also included here.

As the war situation worsened for Germany from 1942, claims about the development of revolutionary new weapons which could turn the tide became an increasingly prominent part of the propaganda directed at Germans by their government. In reality, the advanced weapons under development generally required lengthy periods of design work and testing, and there was no realistic prospect of the German military being able to field them before the end of the war. When some advanced designs, such as the Panther tank and Type XXI submarine, were rushed into production, their performance proved disappointing to the German military and leadership due to inadequate pre-production testing or poorly planned construction processes. Historian Michael J. Neufeld has noted that "the net result of all these weapons, deployed or otherwise, was that the Reich wasted a lot of money and technical expertise (and killed a lot of forced and slave laborers) in developing and producing exotic devices that yielded little or no tactical and strategic advantage". However, a few weapons proved to be successful and have had a large influence in post war designs.

In the German language the term Wunderwaffe generally refers to a universal solution which solves all problems related to a particular issue, mostly used ironically for its illusionary nature.

Wunderwaffen - History of German Industrialization ..

Monday, April 30, 2018

●● Timeline WW2

Neville Chamberlain - Britain's Declaration 1939 > .
iqsquared debate Chamberlain Did The Right Thing > .

ЖЖ WW2 timeline - Allies ..

Aftermaths:
Nuremberg Trials:
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/the-aftermath-of-wwii-what-were-the-nuremberg-trials/

● 1939, December ..
● 1940, December ..
● 1941, December ..
● 1942, December ..
● 1943, December ..
● 1944, December ..
● 1945, December ..

Professor Vernon Bogdanor:
Gresham Bogdanor playlist >> .
Britain in the 20th Century: The Economic Crisis and its Consequences > .
Britain and the Continent > .
Britain in the 20th Century: "Appeasement" > .
The Legacy of Winston Churchill > .

39-9-3 War Declared ..

40-5-26 to 40-6-4 Dunkirk - Operation Dynamo ..

41-12-7 Pearl Harbor ..

42-2-8 to -15 Battle of Singapore ..

42-8-19 Dieppe Raid ..

43-5-16 Dambusters - Operation Chastise ..

44-6-6 D-Day - June 6, 1944 ..

45-3-1 Yalta Big Three ..
45-4-23 Battle of Berlin ..
45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..

playlists:
Timeline WW2 - 39 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 40 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 41 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 42 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 43 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 44 >>> .
Timeline WW2 - 45 >>> .

WWII Timeline .
1935 WWII Timeline .
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1942 WWII Timeline .
1943 WWII Timeline .
1944 WWII Timeline .
1945 WWII Timeline .

Sunday, April 29, 2018

ЖЖ Allies timeline WW2

Interbellum ..

Home Front timeline & links ..

1 to 2 - Interbellum - Time To Remember >> .
'18 to '39 - Armistice to Declaration of War >> .

39-8-23 Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop 1939, 23rd August

39-8-23 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 23 Aug '39

39-9-1 to 39-10-6 Invasion of Poland 1939, Sept 1

39-9-1 - Nazi Germany invades Poland - 1939, 1st September

39-9-3 - Second World War begins for UK - 1939, 3rd September
39-9-3 Chamberlain declares war > .

39-9-27 -- Warsaw Surrenders - 1939, 27 Sep

39-12-18 Churchill Announces Admiral Graf Spee Scuttled (39-12-17)

30-12-25 The Council of the Allies meets in Paris (25 Dec 1939)

1940

40-3-17 Hitler & Mussolini @ Brenner Pass

40-4-9 - Operation Weserübung - Invasion of Norway & Denmark

40-5-17 Nazis Occupy Brussels - 1940, 17 May

40-6-4 Dunkirk evacuation ends | '40, June 4

40-7-3 : British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir | 1940, 3 July

40-7-10 Battle of Britain Begins - 1940, 10 July

40-9-7 - The Blitz Begins - 1940, 7 Sept

40-9-15 Battle of Britain finale - 13 Hours That Saved Britain

40-9-15 13 Hours That Saved Britain - 1940, 15th September
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjKODQYYfg

40-10-28 Italy Invades Greece - 1940, 28 Oct

40-11-11 Taranto Raid - Operation Judgement .. Italian Pearl Harbor

1941

41-5-10 Hess Flees To Scotland - 1941, 10 May

41-5-(20-27) Bismarck & Denmark Strait; Hood, Prince of Wales

41-5-26 & 41-5-27 Bismarck sunk

41-5-27 Sinking of the Bismarck - 1941, 27 May

41-6-22 to 41-12-5 Operation Barbarossa

41-9-8 - Start of the Siege of Leningrad - 1941, 8th September

Siege of Leningrad | History of WW2 (subs) - Katz > .

41-12-7 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ..
41-12-22 Mr Churchill goes to Washington

1942

42-1-1 Edward R. Murrow on the streets of wartime London at night ..
42-2-10 Normadie/Lafayette fire, capsize NYC harbor

42-2-11 Unternehmen Donnerkeil (Operation Thunderbolt)

42-2-27 to 28 Bruneval Raid - Operation Biting ..

42-3-28 Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid, 28th March 1942

42-4-21 Princess Elizabeth's Sixteenth Birthday

42-4-23 Baedecker Blitz 42-6-1 ..

42-8-7 U.S. Guadalcanal Landing - 1942, 7 Aug

42-8-19 Dieppe Raid = Battle of Dieppe, Operation Rutter, official code-name Operation Jubilee

42-10-23 British El Alamein Offensive - 1942, 23 Oct

42-11-27 Toulon Scuttling by French Navy .. 42-11-27 French Navy Scuttles Ships

42-12-4 Raid On Naples

1943

43-1-14 Casablanca Conference

43-2-9 Guadalcanal Battle Ends - 1943, 9 Feb

43-4-5 Wadi Akarit - 1943, 5 Apr

43-5-16 Dambusters
43-5-16 Operation Chastise (Dambuster) raid on Möhne, Edersee, and Sorpe Dams

43-7-10 Sicily Invaded - 1943, 10 July

43-18-17 Messina entered - 1943, 17 Aug*

43-11-16 WWII: Tehran Conference - 1943, 28 Nov 16

43-5-17 Tunisian Victory - Complete

1944

44-3-6 Berlin Bombing

44-4-22 Exercise Tiger 44-4-30 ..

44-5-16 Monte Cassino falls

June '44 to May '45 -- Hitler's Last Year
June 44 to 45 ..

44-6-6 D-Day Operation Neptune ..

44-6-6 June 6, 1944 - D-Day

44-6-6 D-Day plan of operations: Timeline of events 44-4-22 to 44-8-25

44-6-10 WWII: Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre ..

44-7-1 Bretton Woods Conference (to) 44-7-21 ..

44-8-20 - Operation Valkyrie - 1944, 20th July

44-8-25 - Paris liberated from Nazi control - 1944, 25th August

44-9-3 Entry Into Brussels Aka Brussels Delivered! - 3 September, 1944

44-9-4 Antwerp - Before and After The Huns Left - 1944 4 Sept

44-9-12 2nd Quebec Conference - 1944, 12 Sept

44-11-12 Tirpitz sunk

44-12-16 to 45-1-25 Battle of the Bulge

1945

45-1-17 WWII: Warsaw Liberated - 1945, 17 Jan

45-2-13 Bombing of Dresden

45-2-16 US troops Corregidor

45-2-(18-24) The Last Days of World War II 01 18-24 February
45-3 - (4 - 10) The Last Days of World War II 03 04 - 10 March

45-3-7 Battle of Remagen 45-3-17 ..
45-3-7 U.S. Forces Enter Remagen - 1945, 7 Mar

45-3-20 Mandalay Liberated

45-4-1 Okinawa Invasion Begins
45-4-23 Battle of Berlin ..

45-4-26 Arrest of Pétain ..

45-4-27 End of Mussolini - 1945, 27 Apr

45-5-2 Fall of Berlin

45-5-5 Battle for Castle Itter ..

45-5-8 VE Day - Victory in Europe ..
45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..

45-5-23 Himmler commits suicide

45-6-21 Post-war Berlin ..

45-6-22 Okinawa - 1945, 22 June

45-8-2 WWII: Potsdam Conference Ends - 1945, 2 Aug

45-8-6 The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima 1945, 6th August

45-8-9 Nagasaki Bombed - 1945, 9 Aug

45-8-15 V-J Day - Victory over Japan Day ..

45-8-30 MacArthur In Japan - 1945, 30 Aug

1946

46-1-3 William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw, is hanged at Wandsworth Gaol

1946-3-5 Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech ..

1948

48-4-3 Marshall Plan - Truman
https://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/BritishPathe/n6tHWs5t

48-6-24 Berlin Blockade - 1948, 24 June

1949

49-4-4 NATO Established - 1949, 4 Apr

49-5-5 Council Of Europe Formed - 1949, 5 May

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