This Day in WWII 14 May 1940 - 1945

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How to Ditch a B-17 - Life Magazine- May 1944

1940: The British Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden calls for volunteers to form the Local defense Volunteers force (LDV).

1940: Admiralty order requires all owners of large boats to send in particulars within two weeks.

1940: German forces break through the French front at Sedan.

1940: British and French aircraft are unsuccessful in destroying the German-built bridges across the Meuse and 50 bombers are shot down by AA fire.

1940: 60 Luftwaffe He-111 bombers not having received the countermanding order attack besieged Rotterdam, devastating the center of the city.

1940: Germans take Rotterdam as the Dutch government arrives in London.

Tide Water Associated Ad - May 1944

1941: Admiral Darlan reports back to Vichy after meeting Hitler and von Ribbentrop. Vichy Cabinet approves German concessions and French counter-concessions unanimously.

1941: British aircraft launch attacks against airfields in Syria which have been put at axis disposal by the Vichy French authorities.

1941: 3,600 Jews arrested in Paris.

Walter Kidde Company Ad - April 1944

1941: Large Royal Navy and Royal Air Force reinforcements arrive in Singapore.

1942: The U.S. Congress establishes The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC), under the direction of Oveta Culp Hobby, editor of the Houston Post.

1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India.

*Marilyn Johnson

1943: The U.S. 8th Air Force attacks Kiel with 125 aircraft, destroying 3 U-boats.

1943: SS day is celebrated in Oslo.

1944: French troops in Italy break through the Gustav Line.

1945: U-858 surrenders off Delaware, USA, becoming the first German warship to surrender to U.S. forces after the war ends.

1945: Vienna radio announces the re-establishment of the Austrian Republic. The Anschluss with Germany is declared null and void. British troops occupy the German island of Heligoland in the North Sea.

1945: The Norwegian resistance movement (Milorg) is officially disbanded.

1945: USAAF B29's firebomb Nagoya, the heaviest raid on the Japanese homeland so far, with 3,500 tons of bombs being dropped, which destroys the Mitsubishi works.

Marilyn Johnson

*Marilyn Lois Johnson was born September 19, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan. She was the second wife of actor Forrest Tucker. Acted in such movies as "The Racket Man" in 1944, "Tonight and Every Night" (1945), "Wife Decoy" (1945), "Ten Cents a Dance" (1945), "The Blonde From Brooklyn" (1945), "Boston Blackie's Rendezvous" (1945), "Over 21" (1945). Last film role was in 1951 in the film "Two Tickets to Broadway." She was last seen playing Mrs. Forrest Tucker in an episode of "I Love Lucy" in 1955. Marilyn Johnson (Tucker) died at age 37 on July 19, 1960 in Beverly Hills, California.