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September 21, 2014
Today in World War II History—September 21, 1939 & 1944
Armand Calinescu, 1938
75 Years Ago—Sept. 21, 1939: German SS Gen. Reinhard Heydrich produces plan to remove Polish Jews, intelligentsia, clergy, and nobility to ghettos. Romanian premier Armand Calinescu assassinated by Fascist Iron Guard for supporting Poles.
The bridge over the Nederrijn near Arhnem, the Netherlands, circa 19 September 1944. (Imperial War Museum)
70 Years Ago—Sept. 21, 1944: In Operation Market Garden, Germans retake bridge in Arnhem from British paratroopers.
September 20, 2014
Today in World War II History—September 20, 1939 & 1944
Cromwell tanks of Guard’s Armoured Division, British XXX Corps driving toward Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 20 September 1944 (Imperial War Museum)
75 Years Ago—Sept. 20, 1939: Germany announces Jews must surrender radios.
70 Years Ago—Sept. 20, 1944: In Operation Market Garden, British ground troops and US 82nd Airborne troops take Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In British Eighth Army, Indian troops occupy Republic of San Marino.
September 19, 2014
Today in World War II History—September 19, 1939 & 1944
US troops fighting in Brest, Brittany, France, September 1944 (US Army Center of Military History)
75 Years Ago—Sept. 19, 1939: British traitor “Lord Haw-Haw” becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin, broadcasting German propaganda to Allied troops.
70 Years Ago—Sept. 19, 1944: Belgian Parliament meets for first time since 1940. US Ninth Army clears Brittany region of France.
September 18, 2014
Where Treetops Glisten Book & Apron Giveaway Winner
Thank you to all 265 of you who helped celebrate the release of Where Treetops Glisten by entering the giveaway for the book and the vintage apron handmade by Marci Seither.
To read more about this WWII Christmas novella collection, please see the original post.
The winner of the book and the apron is…Erin Reed! Erin, please watch your email inbox for a message from me.
Today in World War II History—September 18, 1939 & 1944
German Army Lt. Gen. Heinz Guderian and Russian Army Brig. Gen. Semyon Krivoshein in victory parade in Brest-Litovsk, Poland, 22 Sept 1939 (German Federal Archive, Bild 101I-121-0011A-23)
75 Years Ago—Sept. 18, 1939: German and Soviet troops link at Brest-Litovsk, Poland. Polish cryptographers flee to Paris with vital information on German Enigma codes.
Troops of US 101st Airborne Division receiving information from Dutch resistance members, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, September 1944 (US National Archives)
70 Years Ago—Sept. 18, 1944: In Operation Market Garden, British ground troops link with US 101st Airborne in Eindhoven, Holland. US Ninth Army takes crucial port of Brest, France.
September 17, 2014
Today in World War II History—September 17, 1939 & 1944
Sinking of HMS Courageous, 17 September 1939
75 Years Ago—Sept. 17, 1939: Soviet troops (allied with Germany) invade Poland, surrounding Polish troops. 150 Polish military and civilian planes fly to Romania; pilots will make way to UK to fight again. Off the Irish coast, U-boat U-29 sinks British carrier HMS Courageous, 514 killed.
US C-47 Skytrains towing Waco CG-4 gliders over Bergeijk, Holland for the Operation Market Garden landings near Eindhoven, 17 September 1944 (US National Archives)
70 Years Ago—Sept. 17, 1944: Operation Market Garden begins: US and British paratroopers land in Nijmegen, Eindhoven, and Arnhem in the Netherlands, with British ground offensive designed to link with the airborne units. In Italy, US Fifth Army breaks Gothic Line at Il Giogo Pass.
September 16, 2014
Today in World War II History—September 16, 1939 & 1944
German Army horses towing an infantry gun, Poland, September 1939 (German Federal Archive, Bild 183-S54817)
75 Years Ago—Sept. 16, 1939: Germans take Brest-Litovsk and surround Warsaw. First German U-boat attack on an Allied North Atlantic convoy; U-31 sinks British freighter Aviemore off Land’s End.
70 Years Ago—Sept. 16, 1944: Soviets launch assault toward Gulf of Riga on the Baltic.
September 15, 2014
Where Treetops Glisten Release Week Giveaway – Book & Apron!
The crunch of newly fallen snow, the weight of wartime
Three siblings forge new paths and find love in three stories, filled with the wonder of Christmas.
This week I’m celebrating the Tuesday release of Where Treetops Glisten, a WWII Christmas novella collection I wrote with Tricia Goyer and Cara Putman – from WaterBrook Press. To celebrate, I’m giving away a copy of the book PLUS this darling Where Treetops Glisten vintage apron handmade by my author friend Marci Seither! The model is her lovely daughter, Amy.
More about Where Treetops Glisten…
Turn back the clock to a different time and listen to Bing Crosby sing of sleigh bells in the snow, as the realities of America’s involvement in the Second World War change the lives of the Turner family in Lafayette, Indiana.
In White Christmas by Cara Putman, Abigail Turner is holding down the Home Front as a college student and a part-time employee at a one-of-a-kind candy shop. Loss of a beau to the war has Abigail skittish about romantic entanglements—until a hard-working young man with a serious problem needs her help.
Abigail’s brother Pete is a fighter pilot hero returned from the European Theater in Sarah Sundin’s I’ll Be Home for Christmas, trying to recapture the hope and peace his time at war has eroded. But when he encounters a precocious little girl in need of Pete’s friendship, can he convince her widowed mother that he’s no longer the bully she once knew?
In Tricia Goyer’s Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Meredith Turner, “Merry” to those who know her best, is using her skills as a combat nurse on the frontline in the Netherlands. Halfway around the world from home, Merry never expects to face her deepest betrayal head on, but that’s precisely what God has in mind to redeem her broken heart.
The Turner family believes in God’s providence during such a tumultuous time. Can they absorb the miracle of Christ’s birth and God’s plan for a future?
GIVEAWAY
To enter the giveaway for a copy of Where Treetops Glisten and the matching apron, please leave a comment below telling me your favorite Christmas goodie. Please leave your email address in the following format sarah [at] sarahsundin [dot] com, so I can notify the winner. US and Canada only please. I’ll announce the winner here on my blog on Thursday September 18.
Today in World War II History—September 15, 1939 & 1944
US Marines on Orange Beach on Peleliu, 15 September 1944 (US Marine Corps)
75 Years Ago—Sept. 15, 1939: Aviator Charles Lindbergh makes his first radio broadcast opposing US involvement in the war.
70 Years Ago—Sept. 15, 1944: US Marines land on Peleliu in Palau Islands. Allied forces from Operation Dragoon (landings in southern France) transferred from Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) to European Theater of Operations (ETO).
September 14, 2014
Today in World War II History—September 14, 1939 & 1944
American soldier receives gift from girl in southern France, 1944 (US Army Center of Military History)
75 Years Ago—Sept. 14, 1939: Off the Hebrides, U-39 attacks carrier HMS Ark Royal but misses and is sunk by British destroyers Faulknor, Foxhound, and Firedrake, the first U-boat sunk in WWII.
70 Years Ago—Sept. 14, 1944: Operation Dragoon, the Allied “Champagne Campaign” in southern France, concludes: 131,000 German POWs have been taken, 40% of Army Group G. Mutiny trial begins for 50 Port Chicago sailors at Treasure Island, CA. Hurricane kills 389 in New England, 7 in North Carolina, and sinks 2 US Coast Guard cutters.
