In September 1939, Menzies found himself a wartime leader of a small nation of 7 million people that depended on Britain for defence against the looming threat of the Japanese Empire, with 100 million people, a very powerful military, and an aggressive foreign policy that looked south.

* September 14 – The State of Vermont " declares war " on Germany, by defining the United States to be in " armed conflict " in order to extend a wartime bonus to Vermonters in the service.

On 2 September 1944, Bella died suddenly due to a virus infection, which was not treated due to the wartime shortage of medicine.

In September 1942 Atanasoff left Iowa State for a wartime assignment as Chief of the Acoustic Division with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory ( NOL ) in Washington, D. C .; no patent application for the ABC was subsequently filed by Iowa State College.

The airfield was again temporarily shut down from September 1946-March 1947 and underwent a major construction program to upgrade the temporary wartime facilities to that of a permanent base.

In February 1941, he was promoted to ( wartime ) temporary rank of brigadier general ( bypassing the rank of colonel ) ( this rank was made permanent in September, 1943 ).

* Merchant Ships Convert Into War Raiders, Paint And False Structures Provide Disguises September 1941 article details how Merchant Raiders operate in wartime

Shortly after the outbreak of war on September 3, 1939, Rennie began to receive offers for larger film roles, starting with his first ( small ) billed performance in the wartime morale booster The Big Blockade, seen in March 1940.

In September 1948 Eisenhower wrote the foreword to Wilson's book of wartime memoirs.

Because of its pro-Soviet position during the war, the Daily Worker was suppressed by the wartime coalition's ( Labour ) Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, between 21 January 1941 and 7 September 1942, when the ban was lifted following a campaign supported by Hewlett Johnson, the Dean of Canterbury, and Professor J.

He was appointed a commission on 29 September as a second lieutenant in the Royal Army Service Corps after only nine months of training ( due to wartime need ; the normal course of study was eighteen months to two years ), left Sandhurst on 1 October, and was sent to France on 4 November 1914 to serve with the 4th Company 7th Divisional Train British Expeditionary Force.

Where figures for production in 1939 are given, they refer to September 1939 onwards ; that is, they only count wartime production.

On September 27, 1915, while sailing for Scapa Flow, HMS Caribbean ( known as before being requisitioned for wartime service ) foundered off Cape Wrath in bad weather.

On 7 September 1965, Heinz Zeuner ( a wartime aide of Kammler's ), stated that Kammler had died on 7 May 1945 and that his corpse had been observed by Zeuner, Preuk and others.

After Mexico formally ceded the region to the USA in 1848, this temporary wartime government persisted until September 9, 1850.

Coward starred as Charles in a wartime UK touring company, beginning in September 1942, with Joyce Carey as Ruth, Judy Campbell as Elvira and Molly Johnson as Madame Arcati.

It was published weekly until 6 September 1941, when wartime paper shortages forced it to change to fortnightly, alternating with The Beano.

In September 1920, Sopwith Aviation was liquidated because of fears the government would examine the wartime aircraft production contracts of companies like Sopwith and impose a crippling retrospective tax liability on them.

Occupied after the war by American forces, the airport was briefly used as a photo-reconnaissance airfield by P-51D Mustang ( F-6 ) aircraft of the 6th and 71st Reconnaissance Groups beginning in late September 1945, mapping the extent of wartime damage over Honshū.

The name was also given to a short-lived wartime state existing from March 8 to September 22, 1918.

In September 2012, it was announced that his wartime diary would be placed on display at Bletchley Park.

The play was first produced in Blackpool in September 1942, during Coward's wartime tour of Britain after he returned to the theatre.

As WWII came to an end, he produced a number of reportages such as " Symphony of Contradictions ," " Bloody September " and " London under Silver Kites ", which all reflected the ( often harsh ) reality during wartime.

On 4 September 1939, the day after Australia declared war, the base's first wartime sortie took place, a flight of three Ansons and three Seagulls patrolling the ocean off Sydney.

The restrictions were tightened by the Defence of the Realm Act of August 1914, which, along with the introduction of rationing and the censorship of the press for wartime purposes, restricted pubs ' opening hours to 12 noon – 2: 30 pm and 6: 30 pm – 9: 30 pm Opening for the full licensed hours was compulsory, and closing time was equally firmly enforced by the police ; a landlord might lose his licence for infractions.

* January 12 – Winston Churchill and Charles De Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakech.

The 8th edition remained incomplete due to wartime circumstances ( 1936-42, only volumes 1-9 and 12 out of 12 planned were issued ).

In wartime, its numbers could exceed 12, 000 in total.

Opened as a double-track main line on August 12, 1839, the section from Whitacre to Hampton, known as the Stonebridge Railway, was downgraded to a branch line in 1842 after the opening of the line from Whitacre into Birmingham ; it was singled in 1843 and lost its final passenger service in 1917 as a wartime economy measure.

He represented England in wartime 12 times, but never in a full official match.

The game also inaugurated a stretch when the Americans dominated, winning 12 of the first 16 ( skipping 1945 because of wartime travel restrictions ).

In April 1944, four months into a nationwide strike by the company ’ s 12, 000 workers, U. S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company because the president refused to settle the strike, as requested by the Roosevelt administration because of its adverse effect on the delivery of needed goods in wartime.

The Mk 12 was an advanced derivative of the wartime Hispano HS 404 that had been used on a variety of American and British fighter aircraft during World War II.

The final 26 episodes of The Riordans was shown in about 1980 on the various ITV regions-for the most part, in most areas, it was shown three times a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 12: 30-most regions temporarily dropped Australian wartime drama The Sullivans, which had been aired in that timeslot in most regions, to accommodate The Riordans-in the Tyne Tees region, The Sullivans continued to air on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12: 30, but The Riordans aired on Wednesdays only-they gradually fell behind the network as a result.

His wartime record was 176 aircraft claimed destroyed, of which 152 were on the Eastern front, 12 on the Western front and 12 in the Mediterranean.

As she neared the end of her useful seagoing life in 1940, Vina was requisitioned as a naval vessel for wartime use, carrying a crew of 12.

Also, the gross vehicle weight for a double-deck bus was increased to 12 tons, from the wartime figure of 11 tons.

The airfield was used extensively during the Second World War being opened in July 1942 and was immediately occupied by No. 12 Operational Training Unit ( OTU ) as a satellite of RAF Chipping Warden operating Vickers Wellingtons and Avro Ansons training pilots from a magnitude of countries on the allied side but mainly Canadian, Czech and New Zealanders about flying in wartime and small courses about navigation.

In all he played 275 first-team matches for Southampton, scoring 12 goals ( not including his wartime appearances ).

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

It was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944 and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it " that unobtainable book ," also due in part to wartime paper rationing.

Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.

World War II was unkind to Radio Row, and in 1944 the Times lamented that the " one-time repository of nearly everything from a tube socket to a complete radio station " was " bargainless and practically setless, too, due to wartime scarcities " but that it still catered to " tinkerers and engineers " and that an " old spirit " and " magical quality " were still there.

The wartime debate about post-war perspectives was accelerated by the resolution of the February 1944 European Conference of the Fourth International.

* Armor production " reached its wartime peak in December 1944, when 1, 854 tanks and armored vehicles were produced.

The street in which it is situated is named for a Free French pilot, Squadron Leader Jacques-Henri Schloesing ( 1919 – 1944 ): fr: Jacques-Henri Schloesing, who flew with the wartime RAF until killed in action, the day that Paris was liberated.

* Pastoral ( 1944 ): Crew relations and love at an airbase in rural surroundings in wartime England.

He reached the temporary wartime rank of colonel, and on October 13, 1944, was appointed the chief of staff of the 9th Infantry Division.

According to the later feature film, made in 1976, both " Lads " were conceived during the same wartime air raid and were thus born in the same year, 1944.

Finding work ( and income ) in the then-booming field of wartime work for the government, the small studio produced a cartoon sponsored by the United Auto Workers ( UAW ) in 1944.

Soman was discovered by Richard Kuhn in Germany in 1944, and represented the last wartime nerve agent discovery ( GF was not found until 1949 ).

A memorandum written for the British military's Armament Research Department in 1944 describes how this same machine was modified during World War II for improved reliability and enhanced capability, and identifies its wartime applications as including research on the flow of heat, explosive detonations, and simulations of transmission lines.

Ohlin was party leader of the liberal Liberal People's Party from 1944 to 1967, the main opposition party to the Social Democrat Governments of the era, and from ' 44 to ' 45 was minister of commerce in the wartime government.

McKimson's first directorial work, Daffy Doodles ( at least his first released directorial work, though it was for the most part a Frank Tashlin cartoon ; he cut his actual directorial teeth on a Seaman Hook wartime cartoon for military audiences in 1944 ), wherein Daffy draws moustaches on all the pre-drawn ( and even some natural ) faces in his sight, was released in early April 1946.

On March 19, 1943, Arnold was promoted ( wartime ) to full General, and on December 21, 1944, appointed a five-star General of the Army under Public Law 282-78, placing him fourth in Army rank seniority behind Marshall, MacArthur, and Eisenhower.

Between 1939 and 1944 ( the peak of wartime production ), the nation's output almost doubled.

British-Indian censorship permitted news reporters to send the reports only in second week of May, 1944, and this was due to wartime censorship.

That pledge did not, however, actually eliminate all wartime strikes ; in fact there were nearly as many strikes in 1944 as there had been in 1937.

The " Autumn 1944 " edition of Angry Penguins appeared in June 1945 owing to wartime printing delays.

In 1944 Karski published Courier from Poland: The Story of a Secret State ( with a selection featured in Collier's six weeks before the book's release ), in which he related his experiences in wartime Poland.

In 1944 Douglas voted with the majority to uphold Japanese wartime internment, in Korematsu v. United States, but over the course of his career he grew to become a leading advocate of individual rights.

Fisher had his first cartoon published in 1944 lampooning Arkansas governor Homer Martin Adkins for claiming credit for wartime factory construction in Arkansas.