To this must be added the 90 to 92 megatons of fission yield produced between the dawn of the atomic age in 1945 and the informal three-power test moratorium that began in November, 1958.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

In the later war years Gainsborough Studios produced a series of critically derided but immensely popular period melodramas including The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) and The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ).

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

For example, the Spitfire, one of the few fighters in continuous production throughout the war, was in 1939 powered by a Merlin II, while variants produced in 1945 were equipped with the Griffon 61.

Helium produced between 1930 and 1945 was about 98. 3 % pure ( 2 % nitrogen ), which was adequate for airships.

In 1945, a small amount of 99. 9 % helium was produced for welding use.

Between 1939 and 1945, Holden's produced more than 30, 000 bodies for the Australian and US forces and manufactured a wide range of equipment, including field guns, aircraft, boats, including truck, aeroplane and marine engines and components.

The first Willys MB Jeeps were produced in 1941 with the first civilian models in 1945, making it the oldest off-road vehicle and sport utility vehicle ( SUV ) brand.

The brand has gone through many owners, starting with Willys, which produced the first Civilian Jeep ( CJ ) in 1945 and who were the first granted the trademark in 1950.

The Luftwaffe produced advanced fighter aircraft in an effort to turn the tide of the air war in 1944 and 1945

Catawissa has produced it since 1945.

World War II brought to Rüsselsheim the only year in the entire history of Opel – 1945 – in which it produced no vehicles at all, since that first Lutzmann-authored Opel was made in 1899.

As a direct result of the war and the War Production Board, by June 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.

Promethium was first produced and characterized at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1945 by the separation and analysis of the fission products of uranium fuel irradiated in a graphite reactor.

* Fraînque Le Maistre produced a Jèrriais version ( based on FitzGerald's 1st edition ) during the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940 – 1945.

Made from 1942 to 1945, the seven films range from 40 to 76 minutes in length, and all are available on DVD or online at no cost, since they have always been public domain films produced by the U. S. government.

Clay 5 and 10 sen coins were produced in 1945 but not issued for circulation.

The plutonium production piloted at X-10 was carried out on a much larger scale at the Hanford Site, which produced the plutonium used in the " Fat Man " atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945.

* ww2dodge. com — WW II Dodge Truck History: site for military Dodge's produced 1939 – 1945

During the years from 1930 to 1945, a wide variety of investigations confirmed that the primary cosmic rays are mostly protons, and the secondary radiation produced in the atmosphere is primarily electrons, photons and muons.

35 % of British cordite produced between 1942 and 1945 came from Ardeer and these agency factories.

From January 1944 until July 1945, large-scale production plants were set in operation, and the fissile material thus produced was then used to determine the features of the weapons.

It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story " The Greatest Gift ", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945.

After the United Nations was founded in 1945 and the League of Nations was disbanded, all but one of the mandated territories that remained under the control of the mandatory power became United Nations trust territories, a roughly equivalent status.

As a subscriber to War Commentary, the war-time equivalent of Freedom, he was called in 1945 from Orkney, where he was serving, to give evidence at the London trial of the editors for publishing an article allegedly intended to seduce soldiers from their duty or allegiance.

One of Pendergast's political proteges was a young World War I veteran from Independence: Harry S. Truman, who had been his nephew's commanding officer in the war, was elected Presiding Judge ( equivalent to a County Executive ) of Jackson County with Pendergast support in 1926, went on to become a U. S. Senator from Missouri, Vice President, and in 1945, following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-third President of the United States.

After Japan's unconditional surrender ( August 15, 1945 ), reporters Harry T. Brundidge of Cosmopolitan Magazine and Clark Lee of Hearst's International News Service ( INS ) offered $ 2, 000 ( the equivalent of a year's wages in Occupied Japan ) for an exclusive interview with " Tokyo Rose ".

The concept of a brigadier general rank is relatively new, as prior to 1945 the lowest German general officer rank was generalmajor, which was often considered equivalent to brigadier general in other armies.

The first nuclear weapon was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons.

In manpower it was broadly equivalent to an American infantry corps, having a strength of 74, 530 men on May 1, 1945.

It was formally established by the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union on March 3, 1955 and replaced a similarly named rank, Admiral of the Fleet ( Адмирал флота ) that was already equivalent to the Marshal of the Soviet Union since 1945.

The GUGB / NKGB maintained their commissar ranks until 1945, and switched to equivalent General ranks after that.

The terrorists reveal that they have constructed their own nuclear device — one roughly equivalent in strength to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

Although contrasted by the Communist press with its previous equivalent, the measure was in fact much less relevant — land awarded to individual farmers in 1923 was more than three times the 1945 figures, and all effects were canceled by the 1948 – 1962 collectivization.

Work on the facility began in June 1943 and was completed in early 1945 employing 12, 000 workers and costing $ 512 million ( equivalent to $ in today dollars ).

1945 – 1975 worked for Dutch equivalent of the FBI and then taught Christian philosophy at the school of economics in Rotterdam.

Between 1945 and 1980, the United States, U. S. S. R, United Kingdom, France and China exploded 504 nuclear devices in atmospheric tests at thirteen primary sites yielding the explosive equivalent of 440 megatons of TNT.

The 1944 insignia featured four Nakhimov stars, but when the rank was declared equivalent to the Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1945, they were replaced with a single, bigger star to look similar to Marshal's shoulder boards.

So from 1945 to 1962, there was no intermediate rank equivalent to Generals of the Army in between Admiral and Admiral of the Fleet.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic.

In addition, the number of motor cars on the roads rose from 3 million to 5 million from 1945 to 1951, and seaside holidays were taken by far more people than ever before.

* Destry Rides Again on Lux Radio Theater: November 5, 1945

The Supreme Commanders on June 5, 1945 in Berlin: Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

Prior to that Essendon lost a hard fought grand final to Richmond in 1943 by 5 points, finished 3rd in 1944, and dropped to 8th in 1945.

On 5 May 1945, the war ended after liberation by mainly Canadian forces.

From 5 – 7 November 1945, more than 140 Jews ( including 36 children ) were killed and hundreds injured in a pogrom in Tripoli.

* 1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

After the liberation in 1945, Liberation Day was commemorated every 5 years.

U. S. attacks started in mid-1943, and caused half the Japanese garrison of 5, 100 people in the atoll Mili to die from hunger by August 1945.

The last V-2 launch at Peenemünde happened in February 1945, and on May 5, 1945, the soldiers of the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front under General Konstantin Rokossovsky captured the seaport of Swinemünde and all of Usedom Island.

The next day, on May 5, Dutch people celebrate the liberation of the nation from the German occupation of 1940 to 1945.

Between 1939 and 1945, at least 1. 5 million Polish citizens were transported to the Reich for forced labour ( in all, about 12 million forced laborers were employed in the German war economy inside the Nazi Germany ).

Between 1945 and 1985, the urban population of South Korea grew from 14. 5 % to 65. 4 % of the total population.

By the end of 1945, the army numbered about 5, 000 and the gendarmerie some 3, 500.

Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo, GC, ( 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945 ) was a World War II French-British secret agent.

Violette Szabo was executed, aged 23, by SS firing squad on or about 5 February 1945.

* History Channel — The Presidents 2005 Part 6, 1913 – 1945, Part 2 / 5: The History Channel covers the life and American Presidency of Warren G. Harding.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-14059-0018, Berlin, Oberbefehlshaber der vier Verbündeten. jpg | The Supreme Commanders on 5 June 1945 in Berlin: Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

Dwight Eisenhower and Georgy Zhukov, June 5, 1945.

* October 5 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist ( d. 1945 )

This first batch of plutonium was refined in the 221-T plant from December 26, 1944, to February 2, 1945, and delivered to the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico on February 5, 1945.