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Category Archives: Movie
This week in the War, 13–19 November 1944: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo—The Movie
Barely two months after the Pearl Harbour attack, the United States began planning a reprisal raid against Japan. The result was the attack against Tokyo and other targets in April 1942. The so-called Doolittle Raid was led by Lt. Col. … Continue reading
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Tagged James Doolittle, Phyllis Thaxter, Spencer Tracy, Thirty Second Over Tokyo, Van Johnson
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This week in the War, 25 Sept–1 Oct 1944: Colditz and The Red Fox
British Army lieutenant, Michael Sinclair, was killed this week in the war, on 25 September 1944. Sinclair, known to the Germans as The Red Fox, was shot and killed while attempting to scale the outer-perimeter fence of Colditz Castle, Germany’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Colditz, Patrick Reid, The Colditz Story, The Red Fox
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This week in the War, 26 April–2 May 1943: “Mincemeat swallowed rod, line and sinker”
This week in the war, in the early hours of the morning of 30 April 1943, British submarine HMS Seraph surfaced off the coast of Spain. A canister was brought on deck and opened to reveal a dead body dressed … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Macintyre, Charles Cholmondeley, Ewen Montagu, HMS Seraph, Major William Martin, Operation Mincemeat, Sicily
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This week in the War, 23–29 November 1942: Casablanca—The Movie
With the Moroccan port of Casablanca in Allied hands following Operation Torch, American cinema audiences were treated to the first screening of the movie Casablanca. The film opened in New York City, this week in the war, on 26 November … Continue reading
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Tagged Casablanca, Casablanca Conference, Churchill, de Gaulle, Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa, Ingrid Bergman, Rick, Roosevelt
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This week in the War, 13–19 April 1942: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo—The Doolittle Raid
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo was the title of a 1944 movie starring Spencer Tracy in the role of Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle (and also the title of the book on which the film was based). This week in the war, … Continue reading
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Tagged Dayton, Doolittle, Spencer Tracy, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, USS Hornet
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This week in the War, 16–22 February 1942: The bombing of Darwin
This week in the war, on 19 February 1942, fighters and bombers from the carrier force of Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo—who in November had launched his planes against Pearl Harbour—attacked Darwin, the largest city of northern Australia. The bombing of Darwin … Continue reading
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Tagged Darwin, Nagumo
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This week in the War, 26 May–1 June 1941: Sink the Bismarck!
“Sink the Bismarck, at any cost,” was the order that Winston Churchill gave to the Royal Navy when the world’s most powerful battleship was on the rampage in the North Atlantic. After a long and harrowing chase, Churchill’s wish was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bismarck, Churchill, HMS Hood, HMS Prince of Wales, Operation Rheinubung, Prinz Eugen, Swordfish
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This week in the War, 23–29 December 1940: Christmas 1940
No two men were as different as King George VI of England and Rudolf Hess. They had nothing at all in common, —except that both were largely of German descent (George through George I of Hanover and through Queen Victoria’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas 1940, George VI, Rudolf Hess, The King's Speech
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