1940
Caithness at War: Week 44
1-7 July 1940 During this week German forces completed their invasion of the Channel Islands and…
Caithness at War: Week 43
24-30 June 1940 After the signing of the armistice between Germany and France the previous Sunday,…
Caithness at War: Week 42
17-23 June 1940 After a week of negotiations Prime Minister Petain of France finally signed an…
Caithness at War: Week 41
10-16 June 1940 Now that the war in Europe had essentially been won by Germany, on Monday 10 June…
Caithness at War: Week 40
3-9 June 1940 In the early hours of 4 June “Operation Dynamo”, the evacuation of Allied forces from…
Caithness at War: Week 39
27 May-2 June 1940 On 27 May “Operation Dynamo” got underway, the evacuation of Allied forces from…
Caithness at War: Week 38
20-26 May 1940 It took the German forces less than a month to overrun Western Europe. Luxembourg…
Caithness at War: Week 37
13-19 May 1940 The German invasion of Western Europe gathered momentum this week. Holland tried to…
Caithness at War: Week 36
6-12 May 1940 On Friday 10th May the long-awaited German invasion of Belgium, France, Luxembourg…