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| Jan |
Italian
Prisoners of War arrived to assist with the building of the
Churchill Barriers, Orkney |
| Feb 15th |
Singapore
taken by the Japanese Army |
| Spring/Summer |
‘Warships
Weeks’ held all over Scotland.
National Savings campaign, similar to ‘War Weapons Week’:
Lanarkshire target was to raise £1,200,000 for repairs
to the Cruiser
HMS Glasgow. |
| Jul |
Japanese
invaded New Guinea, fighting continued until February 1944 |
| Aug 19th |
Commando
raid on Dieppe in Nazi-occupied France |
| Oct 24th |
British
8th Army won Battle of El-Alamein in North Africa |
| Nov 9th
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British
forces landed in Algeria and pushed eastwards |
| Nov 12th |
British
Army advanced westwards from Egypt and took Tobruk in Libya |
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