1. BRITAIN STANDS ALONE THE BALKANS AND NORTH AFRICA
THE SECOND WORLD WAR
BRITAIN STANDS ALONE
THE BALKANS AND NORTH AFRICA

3. GREAT BRITAIN INSULATED BY WATER (ISLAND)
TARGET: CONTROL OF ENGLISH CHANNEL
SEIGE BY AIR—LUFTWAFFE (GERMAN AIR FORCE)

4. BATTLE OF BRITAIN AIR BATTLE: GERMANY V. BRITAIN
BRITAIN’S BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL
BEGAN 18 DAYS AFTER FALL OF FRANCE
3 MONTHS IN SUMMER 1941 (JULY 10-OCT. 31, 1940)
PREFACE TO INVASION OF BRITAIN
SIGNIFICANT BRITISH VICTORY THANKS TO RADAR (BRITS INVENTED IT)

5. HERMAN GORING GIVING SPEECH TO PILOTS ABOUT CHANGING TACTICS BOMBING LONDON INSTEAD OF AIRFIELDS
--NEAR CALAIS, FRANCE SEPTEMBER 1940

6. GERMAN HEINKEL HE 111 BOMBERS OVER ENGLISH CHANNEL 1940

7. CHAIN HOME RADAR COVER, BASES, AND GROUP BOUNDARIES

8. LONDON AIR RAIDS 1940

14. SEA BATTLES IN ATLANTIC
SHIPPING LIFELINE FOR BRITAIN
“WOLF PACKS” – GROUPS OF GERMAN U-BOATS
CONVOY METHOD USED
3 MONTHS JULY-OCT – GERMANS SANK 217 MERCHANT SHIPS
MINES HELPED
GERMANS DOMINATED SEAS IN EARLY PART OF WAR

15. DEFIANCE IN THE BALKANS
ITALY INVADES GREECE WITH DISASTEROUS RESULTS – GREEK’S RESIST
HUNGARY, BULGARIA FELL UNDER NAZI FORCE
YUGOSLAVIA RESISTS; HITLER ORDERS OPERATION ‘PUNISHMENT’
TO ASSIST THE GREEKS, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND BRITAIN SENT TROOPS IN MARCH 1941 TO ASSIST
IN THE END, GREECE AND YUGOSLAVIA COULD NOT HOLD OUT AGAINST THE NAZIS

17. NORTH AFRICA OIL VAST OIL RESERVES MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
N. AFRICA – GATEWAY TO MIDDLE EAST
MUCH OF N. AFRICA WAS BRITISH COLONIES
GERMANY STRIKES: “DESERT FOX” ERWIN ROMMEL & AFRICA KORPS
GERMANS ADVANCED TO IRAQ
MOPPING UP ITALIAN MESSES

18. ERWIN ROMMEL WWI VETERAN HIGH GENERAL AT OUTBREAK WWII
RECIPIENT OF KNIGHTS CROSS FOR BRAVERY
7TH PANZER DIVISION COMMANDER
AFRIKA KORPS IN LIBYA
“THE PEOPLE’S MARSHALL”
“UNBEATABLE”
“ROMMEL, ROMMEL, WHAT ELSE MATTERS BUT BEATING HIM” --CHURCHILL

19. DESERT FOX

20. DATE WITH DESTINY ROMMEL MOVED TO FRANCE IN 1944
BADLY INJURED IN CAR ACCIDENT JULY 17, 1944
JULY 20 – COLONEL COUNT CLAUS SCHENK VON STAUFFENBERG (BRILLIANT OFFICER 37 YEARS OLD, LOST RIGHT EYE AND TWO FINGERS W/ AFRIKA CORPS) ATTEMPTS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AT “WOLF’S LAIR”
ROMMEL TIED TO PLOT AND GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE – CHOSE POISON OVER TRIAL AND DIED OCT. 14, 1944

21. A memorial at the site of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's death outside of the town of Herrlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (west of Ulm)

22. COUNT CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG
“I FEEL I MUST DO SOMETHING NOW TO SAVE GERMANY”

23. EUROPEAN THEATER

25. ITALIAN SPHERE OF INFLUENCE (GREEN)
BRITISH CONTROL (RED)
SUMMER 1942