weird invention in world war 2
Exploding rats
The British proposed this idea in 1941 a series of medical experiments the idea was to fill rat corpses with explosives.
Jet engines
came to fore in the closing months of WW2 as a way of giving fighters an advantage over their adversaries.
The Panjandrum
panjamdrum in 1943 the British Directorate of miscellaneous weapons Development (D M W D) .
Pigeon -guided -rockets
mammals weren’t the only ones roped World war 2 military plans.
Performance arts in word war 2
In word war 2 the theatre show that was on at the time was ,a major geographic area of military operations with be in tow largest being the European theatre ,pacific theatre .
They was divided in to specific campaigns such as the Eastern and western front sin in Europe. some of main Theatre was European Theatre try to fought for control .
Today the group watched some horrible history videos for the TV show to get some ideas for the shows we are doing. What i think it was will child like and funny the lighting in scene were very natural also the costumes colour was a Gray ‘s and dark blue colour and the shot long ,zoom , The TV show is comical to draw a younger crowd of viewers for sure, to be funny, educational at the same time.
we look at some script form the 1940 and one i look at was the gut gins . There in lady’s refinery club,talking about the days plan ,when attention is bruises on Priscilla’s face and they enter a discussion about the bruises ,pricier brushe it of as if it was a accident lady it doesn’t believe her but goes along .
military events in 1940
The Britain military plans to evacuate 400,000
The food rationing begins in Britain with butter ,bacon and sugar use ration books .
Britain announces ship will be armed in North sea .
Royal Navy start laying mines in Norwegian waters .
News from 1940
8th January 1940
It was announces that the great Britain was food rationing.
4th June 1940
British forces successfully complete the evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dun-kin France
10th June 1940
Italy declares war on France and the UK .
The Battle of Britain with the German air force tri to get s
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The politician in 1940
The politician was Winston Churchill he was born on 30th November 1874 at Blenheim palace ,Oxford-shire. He was the politician in the office between the dates of 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955. The act he made as politician was the Education act 1944 this raised the school leavers age to 14. .He died on the 24 January 1965 London.
Rationing in ww2
It Britain during WW2 you did’t get ration card’s from sweets it came out of your generation book it was a specific personal within the system .
Ration from (July 26,1942) the allowance was 2 ounces ( about 5,7 grams ) for one person a week.
The fluctuations for ration was that the monthly allowance was 8 ounces to 2 ounces per a week the maximum of 16 ounces per a month.
This picture for how much ration you can have in a week .
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