In 1940, Hispano-Suiza was developing a belt-feeding system, as well as derivatives of the HS. 404 in heavier calibres such as 23 mm but these projects were halted with the German occupation of France.

Melbourne Johns, from Pembrokeshire, was working at the Grantham factory and realised in 1940 that the Hispano-Suiza factory in France had important Deep Hole Boring Machines that could be of immense value to the Germans and set out on a mission with a team to recover the equipment.

Thus, the attack on the Soviet Union ( which together with Germany had partitioned central Europe in 1939 – 1940 ) was not pressed with sufficient strength.

Between 1935 and 1940, Patton and Eisenhower developed a very close friendship to the level where the Patton and Eisenhower families were spending summer vacations together.

Invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany ( see Battle of Belgium ) started on May 10, 1940 under the operational plan Fall Gelb and formed part of the greater Battle of France together with invasions of the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Saarinen first received critical recognition, while still working for his father, for a chair designed together with Charles Eames for the " Organic Design in Home Furnishings " competition in 1940, for which they received first prize.

Jiang and Mao's only child together, a daughter named Li Na, was born in 1940.

Place of Fukuoka's family home seen middle right. In 1940, Fukuoka married his wife Ayako, and over his life they had five children together.

Bud & Lou made 36 films together between 1940 and 1956.

The duo's first cartoon together was Puss Gets the Boot ( 1940 ), featuring an unnamed mouse's attempts to outwit a housecat named Jasper.

They didn't work together until the hit film My Favorite Wife ( 1940 ), at which time, Eliot claimed Grant used his clout and star power to get Scott cast in a supporting role in the film.

Kallio together with Mannerheim at the Helsinki railway station on December 19, 1940.

After making two more films together ( Contraband ( 1940 ) and 49th Parallel ) with separate credits, the pair decided to form a partnership and to sign their films jointly as " Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

In The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sullavan and Stewart worked together again, playing colleagues who do not get along at work, but have both responded to a lonely-hearts ad and are ( without knowing it ) exchanging letters with each other.

The Mortal Storm ( 1940 ) was the last movie Sullavan and Stewart ever did together.

In 1940, the 1st Battalion, together with two Territorial Army battalions, were captured at St Valery-en-Caux with the 51st ( Highland ) Division.

* In Atlantic waters, from 14 September 1939 till September 1943, four French Possessions in the Americas ( French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique, all in the Caribbean, as well as Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, off the Canadian coast ) were temporarily grouped together ( from June 1940 under Vichy France, so remaining on the Allied side ).

Jolson and Keeler appeared on Broadway one last time together for the unsuccessful show Hold On To Your Hats in 1940.

According to NKVD orders, tens of thousands of Romanian families were deported to Siberia during this period, with 12, 191 people deported on 2 August 1940 ( less than a month after the occupation ), and another 2, 057 persons deported to Siberia in December 1940, together with their families.

In 1940, Cole introduced Jacquet to Lionel Hampton who had returned to California and was putting together a big band.

The pair even appeared together in films, including Love Thy Neighbor ( 1940 ) and It's in the Bag!

In 1940, Gray, who had been studying the effect of neutron damage on human tissue, together with Mayneord and Read published a paper in which a unit of measure, dubbed the " gram roentgen " ( symbol: gr ) defined as " that amount of neutron radiation which produces an increment in energy in unit volume of tissue equal to the increment of energy produced in unit volume of water by one roentgen of radiation " was proposed.

When New Philadelphia head coach John Brickels left to accept another position, Hayes was elevated to the head coaching position, where he put together a 17 – 2 – 1 record in his first two seasons before enduring a 1 – 9 record in 1940.

In 1940, the " Vertical Trade Union " was created ; it was inspired by the ideas of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, who thought that class struggle would be ended by grouping together workers and owners according to corporative principles.

In 1833 all the Leeward Islands were brought together and Dominica was added to the grouping until 1940.

In 1951, he established Sleepy Hollow Restorations, which brought together under one administrative body the management and operation of two historic sites he had acquired: Philipsburg Manor House in North Tarrytown, now called Sleepy Hollow, ( acquired in 1940 and donated to the Tarrytown Historical Society ), and Sunnyside, Washington Irving ’ s home, acquired in 1945.

In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts' adhesive ( Johansen, 1940 ) in earlier experiments, and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ).

* Students often use the poor English translation of J. C. Rolfe in the Loeb Classical Library, 1935 – 1940 with many reprintings.

Soviet KV-2, an assault gun variant of the KV-1 ( tank ) | KV-1 tank with an oversized howitzer mount replacing the turret, 1940

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

* 1936 – 1940 Aston Martin 2-litre Speed Models ( 23 built ) The last 8 were fitted with C-type bodywork

The 1940 discovery of a lost work by Vincent of Lérins, which bears a striking similarity to much of the language of the Athanasian Creed, have led many to conclude that the creed originated either with Vincent or with his students.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

On 7 September 1940, Bulgaria succeeded in negotiating a recovery of Southern Dobruja with the Treaty of Craiova ( see Second Vienna Award ).

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

In July 1940, he was appointed acting lieutenant-general, placed in command of V Corps, responsible for the defence of Hampshire and Dorset, and started a long-running feud with the new commander-in-chief, Southern Command, Claude Auchinleck.

While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

In 1940 they joined Churchill's wartime coalition government, with Sinclair serving as Secretary of State for Air, the last British Liberal to hold Cabinet rank office for seventy years.

While Allied forces in 1940 lacked the experience to successfully develop these strategies, resulting in France's capitulation with heavy losses, they characterized later Allied operations.

In 1940 Wills, along with the Texas Playboys, co-starred with Tex Ritter in Take Me Back to Oklahoma.

Until he began making spoken dialogue films with The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), he never shot from a completed script, but instead usually started with only a vague premise — for example " Charlie enters a health spa " or " Charlie works in a pawn shop.

In August 1940, the territory responded, with the rest of the AEF, to the call from General Charles de Gaulle to fight for Free France.

Attlee supported Churchill in his continuation of Britain's resistance after the French capitulation in 1940, and proved a loyal ally to Churchill throughout the conflict ; when the war cabinet had voted on whether to negotiate peace terms, Attlee ( along with fellow Labour minister Arthur Greenwood ) voted in favour of fighting, giving Churchill the majority he needed to continue the war.

The 1940 Chicago Bears team holds the record for the biggest margin of victory in an NFL game ( playoff or regular season ) with a 73 – 0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.