Now on stable terms with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union ’ s focus turned from overt anti-Fascist militancy to “ peace .” In the midst of the London Blitz and the Battle of Britain, APM agitated for a cut-off of “ warmonger ” President Franklin Roosevelt ’ s Lend-Lease program, and any other U. S. aid to the U. K.

Wever's participation in the construction of the Luftwaffe came to an abrupt end on 3 June 1936 when he was killed along with his engineer in a Heinkel He 70 Blitz.

From the end of 1938 onward to big Opel Blitz trucks had been powered by the same basic 3. 6 L engine used in the Admiral.

* February 19 – February 22 – WWII: Three Nights ' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing, which last a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea's town centre is almost completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive bombs employed by the Luftwaffe.

Created by UK based Blitz Games and featuring company celebrity spokesman Brooke Burke, the games sold more than 3. 2 million copies, placing them as one of the top selling games along with another Xbox 360 hit, Gears of War.

In January, the Blitz tendered an offer that would have been the largest contract in football --- $ 2 Million dollars a year for 3 years --- to Bears running back Walter Payton.

Karaoke Revolution and its many sequels are video games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360, developed by Harmonix Music Systems and Blitz Games and published by Konami in its Bemani line of music games.

Nakamura won the match 3 – 1, further cementing his reputation as one of the best blitz players in the world, despite having not been invited to the 2009 World Blitz championship.

From January 14 through January 30, Nakamura competed in the Tata Steel Grandmaster A tournament in Wijk aan Zee among a field of world No. 1 and defending champion Magnus Carlsen, world champion and world No. 2 Viswanathan Anand, world No. 3 and reigning World Blitz champion Levon Aronian, world No. 4 and former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, world No. 7 Alexander Grischuk, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, reigning Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi, reigning Chinese champion Wang Hao, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Alexei Shirov, Anish Giri, Jan Smeets, and Erwin L ' Ami.

On April 3, 2008, The Blitz went off the air and was replaced with a miscellaneous jargon that sounded as if the radio was having trouble tuning.

Air Fleet 3, stationed in northern France, played a major role in the Battle of Britain, from June 1940 to October 1940 and the The Blitz, to May 1941.

On 3 May 1941 Huskisson Branch Dock Number 2 was the site of the SS Malakand explosion during the Liverpool Blitz, when 1, 000 tons of explosives on board the ship were ignited during an air raid.

It was in war service loaded with munitions in the Huskisson Dock, Liverpool when it was set alight on 3 May 1941 as part of the " Liverpool Blitz ".

Blitz Research Ltd is an Auckland, New Zealand based company which currently produces 3 BASIC based programming languages.

Gérard Blitz ( 28 February 1912 – 3 March 1990 ) was a Belgian water polo player and Yogi.

Much of the school was subsequently destroyed by incendiary bombs in the Cardiff Blitz during the night of 3 – 4 March 1941 in World War II.

In this tournament he played GM Magnus Carlsen, and they tied 3 – 3 in the initial six games, then 2 – 2 in Rapid chess, and finally Aronian won 2 – 0 at Blitz chess.

In May and June 2008, The Rubettes were part of the ' Glitz Blitz & 70s Hitz ' tour of the UK alongside Sweet and Showaddywaddy.

( 1962 ) ( the song Far Away produced another hit for Shirley Bassey ) and Maggie May ( 1964 ), had respectable West End runs ( Blitz !, at the time London's most expensive musical ever, had a run of 568 performances ), but Twang!

The Temple suffered massively during The Blitz in the Second World War ; as well as attacks on 19 September 1940 and 26 September, which destroyed the Library clocktower and the Hall respectively, on 10 – 11 May 1941 the Inn was hit by a series of incendiaries which destroyed the inside of Temple Church, the Hall, the Library and many sets of chambers.

In the ensuing Blitz of London by the German Luftwaffe, Spare's flat and all the artwork in it was destroyed by a bomb on 10 May 1941, leaving him homeless.

It is generally believed that Christie wrote Curtain ( Hercule Poirot's last mystery, which concludes the sleuth's career and life ) and Sleeping Murder during World War II to be published after her death, and that Sleeping Murder was most probably written sometime during the Blitz, which took place between September 1940 and May 1941.

It was closed as a result of enemy action in the Blitz on the night of 11 – 12 May 1941 and the building was pulled down in 1960.

During the Liverpool Blitz of May 1941 a bomb fell nearby and shattered the glass.

Although constructed as an all-weather night fighter airfield for the defence of Liverpool, it did not open until 7 December 1941 which was just after the Liverpool Blitz, which had peaked in May.

The church was almost destroyed by German bombs during the London Blitz of 10 May 1941.

With the impending invasion of Russia requiring the movement of air power to the East, the Blitz ended in May 1941 with Fighter Command in complete control of the night sky over the UK.

The town of Coventry was virtually destroyed by the Coventry Blitz ( 7 September 1940 to May 1941 ).

When the Second World War started, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the then-neutral United States, asked the major belligerents to confine their air raids to military targets ; however following the German Rotterdam Blitz of 14 May 1940, RAF Bomber Command was authorised to attack German targets east of the Rhine.

The British abandoned this policy at the end of the Phony War on 15 May 1940, one day after the Rotterdam Blitz.

Following the German Rotterdam Blitz of 14 May 1940, RAF Bomber Command was authorized to attack German targets east of the Rhine on May 15, 1940 ; the Air Ministry authorized Air Marshal Charles Portal to attack targets in the Ruhr, including oil plants and other civilian industrial targets which aided the German war effort, such as blast furnaces ( which at night were self-illuminating ).

In May 1941, at the height of the Liverpool Blitz, a bomb fell on the museum, which was burnt to a shell.

The city of Rotterdam after the Rotterdam Blitz | German terror bombing during the Battle of the Netherlands | German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940

The complex was damaged during air raids on Liverpool, notably during the May Blitz of 1941.

During the Second World War, Liverpool's importance as a major port saw it become a target for the Luftwaffe and during the May Blitz of 1941, a heavy bomb exploded in the basement, on the eastern side of the building.

Bombed in the May Blitz of 1941, the badly damaged southernmost section was not rebuilt, with only the supporting cast iron columns remaining in situ.

* Workhouse Studios ( 14 May 1979 ): The Damned and Motörhead record two songs (" Over the Top " and " Ballroom Blitz ") for a planned single under the joint moniker " Motördamn ".

* Wessex Studios ( 1 November 1979 ): the band return to the studio for one day to complete the May 1979 version of " Ballroom Blitz ", edit and re-record a radio DJ version of " I Just Can't Be Happy Today ", and mix " Turkey Song ".

For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.

During World War II, steel was essential war materiel ; from 1942 – 1945, the company shifted production to portable five gallon Blitz cans for the US Army.

Peter, a junior doctor at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, was killed in the Blitz in 1940, while Alan died of tuberculosis in 1945, shortly after the Second World War.

More than 1, 300 members were trained and went on to serve as ambulance drivers and medical orderlies in London during the Blitz, as well as overseas in Finland, Norway and Sweden ( 1940 ), the Middle East ( 1940 – 1943 ), Greece ( 1941, 1944 – 1946 ), China and Syria ( 1941 – 1946 ), India and Ethiopia ( 1942 – 1945 ), Italy ( 1943 – 1946 ), France, Belgium, Netherlands, Yugoslavia and Germany ( 1944 – 1946 ) and Austria ( 1945 – 1946 ).

In the winter / spring 1945 period, single-plane Kommando-designated units that used the Arado Ar 234 Blitz jet powered reconnaissance-bomber operated from hidden, forest-lined runways in eastern Germany.

The lone surviving original example of the Arado Ar 234 Blitz turbojet-powered Nazi German reconnaissance bomber, restored and on display in the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center, in 1945 was based in Norway with Kampfgeschwader 76 ( 76th Bomber Wing ).