World War Two- Timeline

1 Sep 1939 to 2 Sep 1945 (6 Years, 1 day)

Location: Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean, North Africa, Horn of Africa, Australia, briefly North and South America.

Result: Military dead: 24,000,000. Civilian dead: 49,000,000. Total dead: 73,000,000 ? Likely to be higher?

Collapse of Nazi Germany, Fall of the Japanese and Italian Empires, Allied occupations of Germany and Japan and foundation of the Italian Republic, Beginning of the Nuclear Age, Dissolution of the League of Nations and creation of the United Nations, Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as rival superpowers and beginning of the Cold War … Research for more.

9 Aug 1945 - United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Nagasaki.
6 Aug 1945 - United States Army Air Force drops atom bomb on Hiroshima.
7 May 1945 - End of the Battle of the Atlantic.
7 Apr 1945 - The Japanese giant battleship Yamato sunk off Okinawa.
6 Apr 1945 - A 700 plane kamikaze attack sink and damage 13 US destroyers.
1 Apr 1945 - United States Army land on Okinawa.
9 Mar 1945 - United States Army Air Force creates firestorm in Tokyo.
19 Feb 1945 - United States Army land on Iwo Jima.
13 Feb 1945 - Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Dresden.
2 Feb 1945 - Start of Operation Ten-Go.
15 Dec 1945 - US forces return to the Philippines at Luzon.
20 Oct 1944 - General Walter Krueger and the US 6th Army landed on Leyte.
2 Oct 1944 - The German Army crushes Warsaw Uprising.
6 Jun 1944 - Second Front opened with Allied landings in Normandy.
30 Mar 1944 - Allied bombing of Nuremberg Raid.
15 Feb 1944 - Allied forces bomb monastery at Monte Cassino.
24 Jul 1943 - Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Hamburg.
16 May 1943 - Wing Commander Guy Gibson leads the Dambusters Raid.
11 May 1943 - Axis forces surrender Tunisia.
23 Jan 1943 - The Allies capture Tripoli.
13 Nov 1942 - The British Army recaptures Tobruk.
4 Nov 1942 - The German Army defeated at El Alamein.
23 Oct 1942 - Bernard Montgomery orders counter-attack at El Alamein.
30 Aug 1942 - Erwin Rommel attacks Eighth Army at Alam el Halfa.
24 Aug 1942 - The German Army enters Stalingrad.
14 Aug 1942 - Allied raid on Dieppe.
7 Aug 1942 - Allied landings at Guadalcanal.
21 Jun 1942 - Erwin Rommel and the German Army captures Tobruk.
14 Jun 1942 - Erwin Rommel defeats Neil Richie at Gazala.
4 Jun 1942 - Start of the battle of Midway.
30 May 1942 - Air Marshall Arthur Harris orders the bombing of Cologne.
27 Mar 1942 - Allied raid on St Nazaire.
22 Feb 1942 - General Douglas MacArthur [Freemason] and the United States forces leave the Philippines.
15 Feb 1942 - General Arthur Percival surrenders Singapore to Japanese.
8 Feb 1942 - Japanese troops land on the northwest corner of Singapore.
25 Dec 1941 - Hong Kong surrendered with the loss of its 12,000 garrison.
11 Dec 1941 - Japanese troops invade Burma.
8 Dec 1941 - Japanese troops invaded Malaya, Thailand, Batann Island in the Philippines.
7 Dec 1941 - Japanese forces attack the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
6 Oct 1941 - The German Army advances on Moscow.
12 Aug 1941 - The German Army advances on Leningrad.
22 Jun 1941 - Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa.
22 Jun 1941 - Operation Punishment comes to an end.
24 Mar 1941 - Erwin Rommel mounts his first attack in the Desert War.
22 Jan 1941 - British Army captures Tobruk.
17 Sep 1940 - Adolf Hitler postpones Operation Sealion.
13 Sep 1940 - Rodolfo Graziani and Italian Army make a rapid advance into Egypt.
7 Sep 1940 - Start of the Blitz.
30 Aug 1940 - Climax of the Battle of Britain.
10 Jul 1940 - Start of the Battle of Britain.
27 May 1940 - Evacuation from Dunkirk begins.
10 May 1940 - Adolf Hitler launches his Western Offensive.(France, Belguim…). PM Neville Chamberlain resigns.
8 Apr 1940 - The German Army invades Norway.
8 Apr 1940 - The German Army invades Denmark.
30 Nov 1940 - The Red Army invades Finland.
1 Sep 1939 - The German Army invades Poland.

FYI - May 1938, Admiral Hugh Sinclair head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), bough Bletchley Park.

Financed Adolf Hitler via the Union Banking Corporation and Fritz Thyssen

- Prescott Sheldon Bush (S&B 1917) - Director of Union Banking Corporation

- Edward Roland Noel Harriman (S&B 1917) - Director of Union Banking Corporation

- Knight Woolley (S&B 1917) - Director of Union Banking Corporation

- Ellery Sedgewick James (S&B 1917) - Director of Union Banking Corporation

1936 to 1940 - William Chistian Bullitt Jr (S&K 1912) - United States Ambassador to France by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason)

1938 - Hugh R. Wilson (S&B 1906) - U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (met with Hitler four days before Germany invaded Austria - 12th Mar 1938.)]

Robert Guthrie Page (S&B 1922)
1940 – Special Assistant to Under Secretary to Under Secretary of the Navy, James V. Forrestal. Secretary Frank Knox (Freemason).

William Franklin Knox (Freemason)
11 Jul 1940 to 28 Apr 1944 - 47th United State Secretary of the Navy by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason).

William Averell Harriman (S&B 1913)
1946 - U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain by President Harry S. Truman (Freemason)
1943 to 1946 - U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason)

Henry Lewis Stimson (S&B 1888)
- Secretary of War by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason) and Harry S. Truman (Freemason)
- Interim Committee Chairman (decision to use Atomic Bomb)

Morris Hadley (S&B 1916)
1941 to 1942 - Deputy Director of Office of War Information

Artemus L. Gates (S&B 1918)
1941 to 1945 - Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air

Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918)
[1941 to 1945 - Assistant Secretary of War for Air

Malcolm Pratt Aldrich (S&B 1922
1942 to 1945 - Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air

Edward Cajetan Bench (S&B 1925)
1942 to 1945, Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air.

Dean Acheson (S&K 1915. Delta Kappa Epsilon. Phi Beta Kappa.) - 51st United States Secretary of State by President Harry S. Truman (Freemason), Assistant United States Under Secretary of State by President Harry S. Truman (Freemason) and Assistant Secretary of States for Congressional Relations and Internaton Conferences

David Ingalls (S&B1920) - Assistant Secretary of Navy.[3]

William P. Bundy (S&B 1939)
**Aug 1943 - , led the nine-man 6813th Signals Security Detachment to the UK secret code braking ‘Government Code and Cipher School’ at Bletchley Park.

John Henry Vincent (S&K 1916) - Special Assistant to Secretary of Navy.[3]

John Jay Schieffelin (S&K 1919) - Rear Admiral.[3]

John Adams Appleton (S&K 1913) - WW2 Brigadier General.[3]

Stanhope Bayne-Jones (S&B 1910) - WW2 Brigadier General.

Frederick Trubee Davison (S&B 1918) - WW 2 Brigadier General.

HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI - Search mind map … Interim Committee

1941 to 1945 - Harvey H. Bundy (S&B 1909)
- Special Assistant to the Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888). by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason).
- Oversaw Manhattan Project.

Henry Lewis Stimson (S&B 1888)
- Secretary of State to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason) and Harry S. Truman (Freemason). - Interim Committee Chairman (decision to use Nuclear Bomb)

George L. Harrison (S&B 1910)
Interim Committee Chairman (decision to use Atomic Bomb)
1928 to 1940 - 2nd President of the Federal Reserve

Charles Seymour (S&B1908) - Post War Planning Committee

Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman (Freemason) 1938 - U.S. Delegate to the coronation of King George VI, London, in 1938.
WW1, 1916 to 1917 - General Board of the Navy. Commanded Division 3 of the Atlantic Fleet, then Squadron 1 of the Battleship Force; Division 3 of the Battleship Force One; Division 9, of the same; and 6th Battle Squadron in North Sea, with British Grand Fleet. Was comanding chief of the Pacific Fleet in 1919.
Spanish-American War - served on the Raleigh.

OTHER EVENTS - Search mind map.

Zeph Stewart (S&B 1943) - Operation Magic -> Pearl Harbour.

Leopold Charles Moritz Stennett Amery (Freemason. All Souls Oxford. 1873-1955) - Gave a devasting speech against Neville Chamberlain after his policy of appeasement. He finished by quoting Oliver Cromwell: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! The debate led to 42 Conservative Members of Parliament voting against Chamberlain and 36 abstaining, leading to the downfall of the Conservative government and the formation of a national government under Churchill’s (Freemason) premiership. Clement Atlee (Freemason??? Wilkes Diary) confirmed that Labour would not serve under Chamberlain.

Jonathon David Towers (S&B 1982) 2012: Inside WW2, 3 hour special,

[1] - Spartacus Educational.com - Timeline

[2] - Spartacus Educational.com - World War 2

[3] - FYI - Wiki - World War 2

[4] - Britannica - World War 2

[5] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[6] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley