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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) | |
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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 |