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Revision as of 13:21, 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
mid-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