模板: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)) | |
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| 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 |