Template:Gibraltar in WWII

第二次世界大戰中直布羅陀軍事歷史
• 事件時間線 • 行動中的搜索燈(1940年) (帝國戰爭博物館(en:Imperial War Museum))
1939年末 Construction of a solid surface runway begins in Gibraltar.
1939年9月9日 No. 202 Squadron RAF is ordered to Gibraltar.
1939年9月25日 No 200 (Coastal) Group is formed as a subordinate
formation to HQ RAF Mediterranean.
1940年6月 13,500 civilian evacuees are shipped to Casablanca
in French Morocco.
1940年7月13日 Following the creation of Vichy France,
Gibraltarian civilians are returned to Gibraltar
prior to movement to other locations.
1940年7月 Evacuees are shipped to the Atlantic island
of Madeira and to London.
1940年10月9日 1,093 refugees re-evacuated to Jamaica.
1941年3月10日 Operation Felix, the German plan for the invasion
of Gibraltar, is amended to become Operation Felix-Heinrich,
which delays the invasion until after the fall of the
Soviet Union, effectively putting an end to
German invasion plans.
1941年末 Plans for Operation Tracer, a stay-behind plan to be put in place
in the event of an invasion of Gibraltar, are formulated.
1942年1月 Equipment trials for Operation Tracer begin.
1942年中 Operation Tracer is pronounced ready for deployment.
1942年7月 Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed
Allied Commander-in-Chief of Operation Torch.
1942年11月5日 Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to take command
1942年7月4日 A Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command
takes off from Gibraltar and crashes, killing
Władysław Sikorski, Polish military and political leader
1943年11月 Resettlement Board established.
1944年4月6日 First group of 1,367 repatriates arrives on
Gibraltar directly from the United Kingdom.
1944年5月28日 First repatriation party leaves Madeira for Gibraltar.
1945年5月8日 第二次世界大戰歐戰勝利紀念日