Transcript world-war-2-henry-g

By Henry Green
PM Neville
Chamberlain
announces Britain is
at war
On September 1939 the German army
invaded Poland. The skies were swarming
with German planes and the fields with
powerful Tanks known as the Blitzkrieg,
or in English the ‘lightning war’ but
because the attack happened so quick it
caused so much damage.
In 1940 the German Air force ,the Luftwaffe, fought the
RAF the English air force over the skies of Brittan but if
the Luftwaffe had destroyed enough British planes they
would have been able to invade Britain without being
attacked from the air. One of the German aircrafs were
Messerschmitts and some of the RAFs planes are called
the Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane. The RAF have a
mascot called Errol the goat the pilots believe it brings
them luck. Did you know the RAF used 3D photos to
help them win the war.
Brittan was under attack night after night The Luftwaffe
dropped bombs on the cities all over the country. The air
raid warden sounds the air raid siren for enemy
approaching and all clear. the air raid siren should
sound like this… Air raid siren these are some of the
pictures of the Blitz.
At the Sahara desert in north Africa a group of allied
troops got stationed at a walled town. The Italian and
German forces surrounded the town hoping that the
people inside would surrender when they ran out of
food.
The Gurkhas, who came from Nepal served in the British
army they fought the Japanese in Burma southeast Asia.
The Nepal's were experts at jungle war especially when it
came to camouflage, and used their Kukri Knives to cut
through the thick undergrowth.
On January 1943 the Axis tried to (and failed) to capture
the snowy Russian City of Stalingrad. The Russian
Sniper hides on rooftops ready to fire at the enemy
below. The sniper is normally an expert rifle shooter and
they used to wear a white suit with hood for camouflage
and it kept him warm.
In 1943 most of Europe (from parts of Russia in the east
France in the west had been under German control.
There was many groups of people called the Resistance
fighters, were secretly working to cause trouble for the
German invaders.
This is the Polish
Resistance flag
On the Atlantic ocean, German submarines, known as
U-Boats tried to stop Allied supply ships from getting
through. They attacked using underwater missiles
known as torpedoes. The Royal British Army captured
many U-Boats in the war. The British officers searched
the U-Boats and found lots of top secret German
documents that the U-Boat was carrying.
On June 6, 1944 (codenamed D-Day) the Allies landed on
the beeches of northern France they hoped to free
Europe from German control. It was a huge operation.
Soldiers known as paratroopers parachuted down behind
enemy line, to take control of important roads and
bridges. The Americans targeted Omaha beach northern
France whilst The British and the Canadians on
Normandy. But what happened on Omaha beach was a
natural disaster.
The Germans were prepared for them they upgraded there
beech with a massive fort. The US Air force were meant to
deliver a massive supply of bombs but they were told to
bomb 30secs later so they would not harm their own
people on the beech but because they were told to bomb
30secs it meant the were a mile off their target, so for
every 5secs they are late they a quarter of a mile off.
On summer 1945 the war was drawing to an end. After
many months of fighting, the allies forced the German
Troops back to Berlin. The Germans surrendered.
Nazi Germany signs unconditional
surrender