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Revision as of 07:46, 1 May 2008

Military history of Gibraltar during World War II
• Timeline of events • Searchlights in action, 1940 (Imperial War Museum)
Late 1939 Construction of a solid surface runway begins in Gibraltar.
9 September 1939 No. 200 Squadron RAF is ordered to Gibraltar.
25 September 1939 No 200 (Coastal) Group is formed as a subordinate
formation to HQ RAF Mediterranean.
June 1940 13,500 civilian evacuees are shipped to Casablanca
in French Morocco.
13 July 1940 Following the creation of Vichy France,
Gibraltarian civilians are returned to Gibraltar
prior to movement to other locations.
July 1940 Evacuees are shipped to the Atlantic island
of Madeira and to London.
9 October 1940 1,093 refugees re-evacuated to Jamaica.
10 March 1941 Operation Felix, the German plan for the invasion
of Gibraltar, is amended to become Operation Felix-Heinrich,
which delays the invasion until after the fall of the
Soviet Union, effectively putting an end to
German invasion plans.
Late 1941 Plans for Operation Tracer, a stay-behind plan to be put in place
in the event of an invasion of Gibraltar, are formulated.
January 1942 Equipment trials for Operation Tracer begin.
Mid-1942 Operation Tracer is pronounced ready for deployment.
July 1942 Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed
Allied Commander-in-Chief of Operation Torch.
5 November 1942 Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to take command
4 July 1942 A Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command
takes off from Gibraltar and crashes, killing
Władysław Sikorski, Polish military and political leader
November 1943 Resettlement Board established.
6 April 1944 First group of 1,367 repatriates arrives on
Gibraltar directly from the United Kingdom.
28 May 1944 First repatriation party leaves Madeira for Gibraltar.
8 May 1945 Victory in Europe Day

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