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Operation Chastise was a night bombing raid carried out by the @RoyalAirForce on the evening of 16 May 1943. This raid is also referred to as the Dambusters Raid because the bombers were targeting several dams in the Ruhr industrial area, in western Germany. 
It seems like it’s about time for a #TankTwitter thread, so today we will talk about the first, largely intact, Tiger I captured by the Allies. 
On Tuesday we talked about the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid, and that thread also served as a primer for the third episode of the accompanying #WhyWeFight1943 podcast.
On Tuesday, we talked about the secret multi-day trip that President Roosevelt took from the White House on 9 JAN to Casablanca, arriving on 14 JAN, in order to attend a highly classified series of meetings with his British counterpart, Winston Churchill.
George Patton was put in command of the Western Task Force, which sailed from the east coast of the US right to Morocco for Operation Torch. The other two task forces sailed from the UK. 
Everyone knows that the United States used two atomic bombs in the Pacific in World War II, and that the US was the only nation in the war to use this new type of weapon. This week we will take a look at the efforts to create these bombs.
Today we will just share a short thread with a few updates and things that won't get threads of their own.
Throughout the summer we shared threads covering some of the battles, raids, and operations that took place in North Africa and Europe in 1942. There were many more than we could cover, of course, but whenever possible we matched dates to the timing of the events covered.
“Dealing with the enemy is a simple and straight-forward matter when contrasted with securing close cooperation with an ally.” 
Seeing as how today is National Airborne Day, and just about the 80th “Airborne Birthday” of our first two Airborne Divisions, it seemed like a good time to talk about them. 🎂🪂🍰 @82ndABNDiv @101stAASLTDIV @18airbornecorps 
As noted previously, the US Army had never conducted a combat amphibious operation before 1942, and if there had been an overseas deployment, troops “… had been able to land on friendly shores and organize for battle with little interference from the enemy.” 
Although the US Army still has a way to go before ground forces get into the fight in North Africa and Europe, a part of the Army saw action in Europe beginning on July 4th in 1942. 
The Italians had technically held Tobruk at the start of the war since it was located in Italian Cyrenaica, a colony in Libya, and they began fortifying the region in 1935. 
On 3 and 4 June in 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched two air raids from aircraft carriers against two bases in the Aleutian Islands – the Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and the US Army Fort Mears, located next to each other. 
Fighting in the desert in North Africa had been going on for about two years by this point in 1942. Neither the British nor the Axis forces could gain and maintain the upper hand, which meant they had yet to achieve any kind of decisive victory in the region. 
Several times in this series, and in the previous one, we have stated that World War II began with the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939.
In light of the recent release of a certain recruiting video this seems like a convenient time to introduce Psychological Operations and Deception, which we will cover more in-depth later in the series.
In early August 1940, President Roosevelt signed legislation that established the Mojave Anti-Aircraft Range – an area of land in the Mojave Desert covering about 1000 acres. 
Just about 80 years ago, @1stArmoredDiv was aboard the RMS Queen Mary on its way to the European Theater. They arrived on 16 May 1942. 
Although the Battle of Madagascar essentially ran from May until November of 1942, Operation Ironclad was launched this week 80 years ago and that is the topic for today’s thread.
Last year we talked a bit about the Corps of Engineers. Initially the Maneuvers conducted in 1940 and 1941 were intended to help establish the basis for changes to the US Army Engineers regarding their organization and equipment. twitter.com/i/events/13642…