WW2 Tweets from 1942

@RealTimeWWII

I livetweet the Second World War as it happened on this date in 1942 & for 4 years to come (2nd time around). Created by Alwyn Collinson, realtimewwii@gmail.com

Britain
Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2011.
Rođen/a 1939.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. Quisling & other Nazi collaborators are widely hated by other Norwegians, who socially ostasice them with an "ice front"- encouraged by British intelligence, who smuggle propaganda stamps into Norway:

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  2. Hoping to force greater collaboration from German-occupied Norway, Hitler has appointed Norwegian fascist Vidkun Quisling to head the Nazi puppet government in Oslo:

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  3. Japanese bombers are raiding the Australian navy base of Port Moresby, New Guinea- striking ever closer to mainland Australia.

  4. 2. velj

    In the Philippines, US troops are under constant assault; Japanese boats landing behind their lines, on coast of Bataan, last American holdout.

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  5. 1. velj

    Japanese bombers are smashing Singapore day & night, killing hundreds of civilians; 1 Singaporean woman mourns her child, slain in a midday raid:

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  6. 1. velj

    Sole MP to vote against government is James Maxton, Scottish far-left pacifist, who opposes military action, even against Hitler: “The plain fact is that war means the slaughter of millions.”

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  7. 1. velj

    Churchill, on Parliament's debate about his handling of the war: "No dictator country fighting for its life would dare allow such a discussion."

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  8. 31. sij

    "Unity of Strength": British propaganda poster celebrates soldiers from across the Empire fighting togther to defeat the Axis: Australia, Canada, India, Africa, & New Zealand.

  9. 31. sij

    Hitler has made his annual speech to vast crowds in Berlin's Sportpalast: he calls Churchill a "drunken gabbler", Roosevelt a "mad fool", but admits "war may not end this year."

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  10. 31. sij

    One guest in the bar at Raffles, Singapore's world-famous hotel, hearing explosion, asks what the sound is. A Chinese waiter replies: "That is the end of the British Empire."

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  11. 31. sij

    Allied military engineers have blown up the causeway connecting Singapore to mainland Malaya- Japanese forces are now just 15 miles away from the city.

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  12. 30. sij

    Some children have been evacuated from the siege of Leningrad, across the only road over frozen Lake Ladoga, but Stalin has vetoed abandoning the USSR's second city "for prestige reasons". In any case, Axis control all other escape routes.

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  13. 30. sij

    Red Army & British Imperial troops now occupy Iranian cities & guard Iran's oil wells, officially to prevent any German threat- like these Indian soldiers.

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  14. 30. sij

    The new Shah of Iran has signed an alliance with British & Soviets, whose armies who invaded Iran & deposed his pro-Nazi father last year.

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  15. 30. sij

    4000 people a day are dying of starvation in besieged city of Leningrad; Soviet scientists are trying to process pine needles to extract vital Vitamin C.

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  16. 28. sij

    Allied forces fleeing city of Benghazi before the new Axis advance; as Rommel nears Libyan port, British are wrecking the harbour before the Germans get it.

  17. 28. sij

    General Douglas MacArthur, commander of US forces in the Philippines, promises "no more retreats- we will defend Bataan to the death":

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  18. 28. sij

    American & Filipino forces defending the Philippines have retreated to their final defensive line, trapped & surrounded by Japanese on the narrow Bataan peninsula.

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  19. 28. sij

    Australian Lieutenant Ben Hackney is one of just three Allied prisoners to escape massacre; he feigned death & crawled into the jungle with 2 broken legs.

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  20. 27. sij

    ~2000 Australian, Indian & British soldiers have been trapped behind Japanese advance in Malaya, & fighting desperately to escape through the jungle.

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