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SS Vega reaches starving Jersey
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31st December
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Operation Hardtack targets the Channel Islands
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28th December
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Maurice Gould is deported to Europe
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21st December
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Police reveals theft of Jersey’s war achives
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18th December
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Elizabeth Castle is bombed into submission
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15th December
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263 Squadron bomber is shot down at St Brelade
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7th December
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Admiral Thomas Gosselin dies in Jersey
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27th November
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Agent ZigZag is born
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16th November
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The States makes it illegal for anyone in Jersey to own a nuclear weapon
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14th November
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Jersey concentration camp prisoner Gordon Prigent is born
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5th November
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HMS Charybdis sinks with heavy loss of life
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23rd October
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Hitler orders the Channel Islands’ fortification
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20th October
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Under-defended Jersey mulls conscription
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19th October
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Channel Islands’ king sails for the mainland
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12th October
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Occupation resister Louisa Gould is born
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7th October
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“Let ’em starve,” says Churchill
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27th September
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Jersey man gives evidence at Belsen concentration camp trial
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20th September
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Jersey’s military government is dissolved
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25th August
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Parliament commends Jersey’s wartime conduct
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17th August
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Divers move 70 primed bombs
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16th August
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Parliament debates Jersey’s treatment of prisoners of war
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3rd August
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Jersey bailiff who helped organise the St Malo evacuation is born
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30th July
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The King approves construction of defensive towers
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5th July
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Three French men escape to Jersey
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29th June
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The Royal Militia leaves Fort Regent
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20th June
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Demilitarisation of Jersey begins
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19th June
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Batterie Moltke’s namesake dies
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18th June
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General de Gaulle has lunch in Jersey while fleeing France
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17th June
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A flotilla of Jersey boats sets sail for Dunkirk
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16th June
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A Belgian airman is killed over Jersey
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14th June
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The Channel Islands are liberated
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9th May
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Jersey prisoners’ liberation revealed by the Foreign Office
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2nd May
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France fails to invade Jersey
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1st May
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Channel Islanders liberated from prisons across Germany
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12th April
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Francois Scornet is shot by occupying forces
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17th March
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Jerseyman is shot down in a Wellington aircraft
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14th March
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Occupying forces mount desperate raid on Granvillle
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9th March
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Jerseyman sentenced for Nazi propaganda
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1st March
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Jersey company plans massive nuclear shelter
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23rd January
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American POWs escape from a Jersey camp
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8th January
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French troops launch the Battle of Jersey
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6th January
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Alfred Bedane is awarded Israel’s highest honour for wartime bravery
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4th January
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