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Events relating to england
British author Rebecca West publishes an account of Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy in the Nazi party, flies to Britain on a bizarre secret mission
A Gloster E.28/39 air frame becomes the first craft to fly with a Whittle jet engine
Roosevelt and Churchill publish a joint Atlantic Charter, foreseeing a future free from 'Nazi tyranny'
A report by UK economist William Beveridge proposes a wide-ranging social security programme for postwar Britain
Leslie Howard directs and stars in The First of the Few, about the creator of the Spitfire, with music by William Walton
David Lean and Noel Coward create a classic wartime film, In Which We Serve about the crew of a naval destroyer
A rich hoard of Roman silver is unearthed near Mildenhall, in Suffolk
English children's author Enid Blyton introduces the Famous Five in Five on a Treasure Island
Arthur Harris is put in charge of British Bomber Command, and is later much criticized for his ruthless approach
British engineer Barnes Wallis designs a bouncing and rotating bomb for use against German dams
Germany launches a bombing campaign specifically targeting historic British cities with three stars in the Baedeker guidebook
Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the demoralized British and Commonwealth Eighth Army in North Africa
English contralto Kathleen Ferrier makes her London début in Handel's Messiah in Westminster Abbey
British conductor John Barbirolli is appointed to direct the Hallé orchestra
British admiral Louis Mountbatten is appointed to head the new Southeast Asia Command, with his headquarters in Delhi
Colossus Mark I, the world's first computer, goes into decoding service at Bletchley Park in Britain
Commissioned by a church in Northampton to sculpt a Madonna and Child, British sculptor Henry Moore produces the first of his family groups
The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York
Laurence Olivier directs and stars in a patriotic film of Henry V with stirring music by William Walton
The RAF's first jet, the Gloster Meteor, flies with a Whittle engine
British general Bernard Montgomery commands the Allied land forces in the Normandy Landing on D-day
Two pre-constructed harbours, known by the code name Mulberries, are towed across the Channel to Normandy
The first V-1 flying bombs (or doodlebugs) appear over London, numbering more than 2000 in two weeks
The first V-2 rocket lands on London, killing three people in Chiswick
