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Revision as of 13:16, 13 September 2007

Military history of Gibraltar during World War II
- Timeline of events - Searchlights in action, 1940 (Imperial War Museum)
late 1939 Construction of a solid surface runway begins
9 September 1939 No. 200 Squadron RAF is ordered to Gibraltar
25 September 1939 No 200 (Coastal) Group is formed as a subordinate
formation to HQ RAF Mediterranean
June 1940 13,500 evacuees are shipped to Casablanca
in French Morocco
13 July 1940 Re-evacuation back to Gibraltar is complete
July 1940 Evacuees are shipped to the Atlantic island
of Madeira and London
9 October 1940 1,093 evacuees re-evacuated to Jamaica
10 March 1941 Operation Felix amended to become Operation
Felix-Heinrich
late 1941 Plans for Operation Tracer are put together
January 1942 Extensive trials of equipment for Operation
Tracer begins
summer 1942 Operation Tracer ready
July 1942 Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed
Allied Commander-in-Chief of Operation Torch
5 November 1942 Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to take command
4 July 1942 A Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command
takes off from Gibraltar and crashes, killing
Władysław Sikorski, Polish military and political leader
November 1943 Resettlement Board established
6 April 1944 First group of 1367 repatriates arrives on the
Rock directly from the United Kingdom
28 May 1944 First repatriation party leaves Madeira
8 May 1945 Victory in Europe Day