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7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

7th September 2019
Tagged as: Battle of Britain, Blitz, Britain, Germany, Hitler, London, Nazi, Second World War

The Nazi German Luftwaffe launched the first of 57 consecutive days and nights of bombing raids on London in what became known as the Blitz.

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4th August 1944: First Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory by ‘tipping’ a V-1 doodlebug

4th August 2017
Tagged as: Aircraft, Blitz, Britain, Germany, Kent, London, Nazi, RAF, Science, Second World War, Technology, V-1

RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he ‘tipped’ a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet fighter.

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7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

4th August 1944: First Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory by ‘tipping’ a V-1 doodlebug

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HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

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30th June 1934: Hitler purges the Nazi party in the Night of the Long Knives

29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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