Chronology of World War II

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2000

January
  • A law firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, files a class action lawsuit involving 2000 plaintiffs against the Vatican Bank, seeking an accounting of 200 million Swiss francs that it received during Adolf Hitler's reign of Germany. [466.52]
March 28
  • Micronesia issues a 33-cent postage stamp depicting the Yalta Conference, as part of a series on Peacemakers. [728.928]
April 10
  • Russia issues five postage stamps marking the 55th anniversary of the end of World War II. [343.651]
April 21
  • Japan issues four postage stamps with World War II related themes, part of a series on the Millenium. [728.78]
April 25
  • Norfolk Island issues a 75-cent postage stamp showing a list of war dead from World War II. [728.1455]
April 28
  • Guernsey issues six postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [708.362]
May 20
  • Kyrgystan issues three postage stamps marking the 55th anniversary of victory in World War II. [342.265]
May 22
  • Bahamas issues five postage stamps for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [706.696]
  • Isle of Man issues eight postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [708.397]
  • Montserrat issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [728.1066]
June 21
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon issues two postage stamps depicting scenes of World War II. [751.828]
August 23
  • Denmark issues a postage stamp depicting the liberation of Denmark, part of a Millennium series. [707.787]
September 13
  • Mongolia issues a postage stamp depicting the war years 1939-45 in Mongolia. [342.886]
September 15
  • Jersey issues six postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [708.380]
October 2
  • Tristan da Cunha issues a postage stamp depicting Winston Churchill giving a VE Day broadcast, 1945. [752.606]
October 16
  • Antigua & Barbuda issues 18 postage stamps for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [706.436]

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  • The Gambia issues 18 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [341.58] [708.59]
  • St. Vincent issues three postage stamps depicting World War II scenes, in a World at War series. [751.897]
October 30
  • Grenada issues fourteen postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [708.489]
  • Grenada - Carriacou & Petite Martinique issues 18 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [708.524]
November 15
  • Poland issues two postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre. [751.373]
November 19
  • In Bienen, Germany, a bronze tablet is unveiled on a stone wall, placed by surviving Canadian veterans of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders of the 3rd Infantry Division, in memory of members who died March 25, 1945 in taking the town. The tablet is also in memory of other Canadians, and of the German Army men who died fighting them. [400.24]
November 20
  • Belgium issues three postage stamps in a series marking the 20th century, depicting concentration camps, the first atomic bomb, and the Yalta Conference. [706.808]
December 4
  • Turks and Caicos Islands issues 18 postage stamps to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [752.732]
December 18
  • St. Vincent issues 18 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [751.897]
December 23
  • The Russian government officially admits to the unjustifiable arrest and murder of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in 1945. [133.7]
December 31
  • Ireland issues a 30 pence postage stamp depicting peace at the end of World War II, part of a millennium series of stamps. [708.1090]

2001

January 2
  • Maldives issues 18 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [728.719]
January 30
  • Sierra Leone issues 36 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [343.997] [751.1130]
February 1
  • The British government issues 10,000 Pound compensation packages for those British citizens (or surviving spouses) held prisoner by the Japanese in World War II. [134.12]
March 15
  • Mongolia issues a 300-tugriks postage stamp depicting World War II, part of a series on 20th Century Events. [728.1042]
May 21
  • Gibraltar issues a postage stamp depicting the end of World War II. [341.264]
July
  • Polish president Aleksander Kwasmiewski lays a wreath at Jedwabne and apologizes for the massacre of hundreds of Jews on July 10, 1941. [723.40]
July 26
  • The US Congressional Medal of Honor is awarded to Navajo code breakers of World War II. [368.61]
August 24
  • Marshall Islands issues nine postage stamps depicting naval heroes in World War II Pacific Theater. [342.670]
September 7
  • Japan issues a 80-yen postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the peace treaty signing in San Francisco in 1951. [728.82]
October
  • Fifteen Canadian airmen who were imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II receive compensation cheques of $5400 from the German government. The payments are made to compensate those who were used as forced laborers under the Nazi regime. [241.55]
November 11
  • Poland issues a postage stamp depicting soldiers at the 1944 Warsaw uprising. [751.375]
November 15
  • Russia issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the defence of Moscow. [343.654] [751.725]
December 7
  • Micronesia issues 14 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. [728.930]
  • St. Vincent issues fourteen postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. [751.900]

2002

March 26
  • Poland issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the return of General Wladyslaw Anders' Army from the USSR. [751.375]
March 30
  • The Office for German Ground Monument protection issues protected monument status to a stretch of the Siegfried Line, between Lammersdorf and Hargard, and another stretch from Hellenthal to Aachen. [152.10]
July 25
  • In St. André-sur-Orne, France, a delegation of the Canadian Black Watch unveils a plaque on Point 67 overlooking Verrières Ridge, in memory of men of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) who fought and died July 25, 1944, during Operating Spring. [400.60]
August 7
  • The Solomon Islands issues four postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal. [752.12]
August 29
  • A 78-foot long Japanese midget submarine is found in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, believed to have been sunk by the US Navy two hours before the Japanese attack in 1941. [224.14]
September 29
  • State prosecutors of Dortmund, Germany, charge eleven former German officers with the murder of 5,000 Italian prisoners-of-war on the Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II. The case was re-opened based on new evidence from East German Stasi police files and war diaries. [228.9]
October 4
  • Russia issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. [343.655]

2003

January 30
  • Guernsey issues five postage stamps depicting scenes of World War II. [708.363]
May 9
  • Isle of Man issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the dambusters raids of World War II. [708.399]
June 10
  • Russia issues a postage stamp to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk. [751.729]
(month unknown)
  • German submarine U-215, sunk in July 1942 off Nova Scotia, Canada, is rediscovered. [556.6]

2004

January 16
  • Russia issues a postage stamp to mark the 60th anniversary of World War II offensives of 1944. [751.730]
January 22
  • Slovenia issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the march of the 14th Division to the Styria. [751.1189]
February 19
  • Canadian Defence Minister David Pratt and Veterans Affairs minister John McCallum announces a CDN$50 million compensation package of CDN$24,000 per person for veterans who had volunteered in top-secret missions experimenting in exposure to chemical weapons in World War II. [449.67]
April 6
  • Isle of Man issues twelve postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [708.399]
May 3
  • Gambia issues 14 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [708.69]
  • Grenada issues 14 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [708.498]
May 4
  • Belarus issues two postage stamps for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the area from German occupation. [706.765]
May 12
  • Guernsey issues five postage stamps depicting scenes of D-Day. [708.363]
May 19
  • Maldives issues 35 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. [728.719]
June 1
  • Sierra Leone issues 54 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [751.1137]
June 4
  • Jersey issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [708.383]
June 6
  • Canada issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [707.102]
  • Gibraltar issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [708.290]
  • Marshall Islands issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. [728.800]
June 18
  • Palau issues seven postage stamps remembering the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [751.51]
(month unknown)
  • In Dresden, Germany, the ten-year construction of the Frauenkirche baroque cathedral is completed. The church had collapsed during bombing in 1945. [461.8]
  • The Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney issue commemorative coins marking the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. [399.7]
  • The British Virgin Islands issues three coins commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. [399.53]
  • The Monnaie de Paris strikes gold and silver coins commemorating June 6, 1944. [398.36]
July 19
  • Grenada - Carriacou & Petite Martinique issues 14 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [708.529]
  • Saint Vincent issues sixteen postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing. [751.904]
July 22
  • Dominica issues seven postage stamps for the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [707.840]
July 26
  • Antigua & Barbuda issues 14 postage stamps for the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [706.443]
August 25
  • Brazil issues four postage stamps depicting Brazil in World War II. [706.1053]
September 1
  • Micronesia issues 7 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day attack on Normandy. [728.934]
September 7
  • Nevis issues seven postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [728.1255]
September 8
  • A plaque commemorating the first war casualties of the German V-2 rocket is unveiled at Staveley Road, Chiswick, England, on the 60th anniversary of attack. [463.10]
September 21
  • Saint Kitts issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [751.793]
September 27
  • Guyana issues twenty postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [708.642]
(month unknown)
  • The Isle of Mann issues six coins marking the 60th anniversary of World War II. Each coin is 1 crown, depicting medals awarded to nations. [413.16]
October 13
  • Niue issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [728.1444]
November 29
  • Ghana issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [642.82] [708.275]
December 1
  • Marshall Islands issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. [728.800]
December 7
  • Luxembourg issues a 70-cent postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of liberation in World War II. [728.568]
December 24
  • Montserrat issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. [728.1067]

2005

January 14
  • Tuvalu issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of D-Day. [752.751]
February 3
  • Guernsey issues five postage stamps depicting scenes of World War II. [708.364]
March 2
  • Finland issues a 65-cent postage stamp marking the end of the Winter War with the Soviet Union during World War II. [707.1127]
March 18
  • Slovenia issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the return of Slovenian exiles. [751.1190]
  • Slovenia issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. [751.1190]
March 31
  • Micronesia issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [644.76] [728.935]
April 5
  • Russia issues six postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. [641.92] [751.732]
April 6
  • Azerbaijan issues a postage stamp for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [706.680]
April 12
  • Belarus issues six postage stamps for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [706.766]
April 13
  • Russia issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Vienna, Austria, by Soviet troops. [645.74] [751.732]
April 14
  • The Gambia issues six postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [648.78] [708.72]
April 15
  • Isle of Man issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of victory in World War II. [708.400]
April 21
  • Nauru issues eleven postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [642.93] [728.1147]
  • Kiribati issues eleven postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [643.84] [728.172]
  • Solomon Islands issues eleven postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [651.64] [752.13]
April 22
  • Ukraine issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [752.800]
April 28
  • Kazakhstan issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [649.93]
April 29
  • Armenia issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [646.77]
  • Canada issues a postage stamp marking the Battle of the Atlantic. [707.104]
(month unknown)
  • The Royal Canadian Mint unveils a 5-cent coin commemorating the end of World War II. The coin is 0.925 silver, dated 1945-2005, with torch and "V" design similar to that used on the 1945 5c coin. The obverse shows King George VI, the first time in Canadian history for a non-reigning monarch to appear on a Canadian coin. This is also the first time the reigning monarch is intentionally not featured on a Canadian coin. [423.1]
  • The Royal Canadian Mint unveils a $5 coin commemorating the end of World War II. The coin is 0.9999 silver, with a design created by Peter Mossman. Mintage limit is set to 25,000 pieces. [423.1]
  • The Royal Canadian Mint unveils six 50-cent coins depicting Canadian participation in World War II. One coin will be issued each month, starting May 5. Mintage is limited to 20,000 coins each. Designs were created by Peter Mossman. [423.1]
  • Finland unveils a 2005 10 euro sterling silver coin commemorating the end of World War II. [424.40]
May 3
  • Israel issues two postage stamsp marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [708.1133]
May 4
  • Denmark issues two postage stamps depicting the sailors in World War II. [707.789]
May 6
  • Hungary issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [708.780]
  • Poland issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [651.64] [751.379]
  • Uzbekistan issues eight postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [651.88] [752.897]
May 7
  • Ukraine issues a postage stamp marking the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. [752.800]
May 8
  • Gibraltar issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-E Day. [649.88] [708.291]
May 9
  • Belgium issues three postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [643.78] [706.816]
  • Guernsey issues two postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Guernsey. [708.364]
  • Jersey issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [708.383]
  • Marshall Islands issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-E Day. [728.800]
  • Moldova issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [644.77] [728.946]
  • Palau issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [751.52]
  • The Grenadines of Saint Vincent - Bequia issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [645.78] [751.920]
  • The Gambia issues ten postage stamps entitled "The Route to Victory", marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [648.78] [708.72]
May 10
  • Grenada issues ten postage stamps entitled "The Route to Victory", marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [648.84] [708.500]
  • Grenada issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-E Day. [648.78] [708.500]
  • Grenada issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-J Day. [648.78] [708.500]
  • Grenada - Carriacou & Petite Martinique issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [648.86] [708.530]
May 11
  • St. Kitts issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [645.76] [751.794]
May 16
  • Nevis issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [644.82] [728.1257]
May 24
  • Sierra Leone issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [645.82] [751.1139]
  • Sierra Leone issues ten postage stamps entitled "The Route to Victory", depicting World War II battles. [645.82] [751.1139]
(month unknown)
  • The British Royal Mint releases gold and silver 2 pound coins marking the end of World War II. [425.23]
  • The Isle of Man issues a 1 Crown coin (in gold, silver, and copper-nickel versions) commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [427.23]
  • The British Virgin Islands issues $1, $10, and $50 coins (in gold, silver, and copper-nickel versions) commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [427.23]
June 7
  • St. Vincent & The Grenadines issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [645.78] [751.908]
  • Palau issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-J Day. [751.53]
June 15
  • Antigua & Barbuda issues 8 postage stamps for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [646.75] [706.445]
June 18
  • Kyrgyzstan issues 20 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [650.58]
June 26
  • British Indian Ocean Territory issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [706.1078]
June 27
  • Fiji issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [707.1096]
June 29
  • Falkland Islands issues six postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [707.1067]
July 11
  • Grenada - Carriacou & Petite Martinique issues eight postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-J Day. [648.86] [708.530]
July 12
  • The Gambia issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of VJ Day. [648.78] [708.72]
August 12
  • Guyana issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-E Day. [648.86] [708.643]
  • Guyana issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-J Day. [648.86] [708.643]
  • South Korea issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea. [649.94]
August 16
  • A memorial of granite commemorating the Siege of Malta is unveiled in London, England, outside All Hallows Chruch near the Tower of London. [506.8]
August 22
  • Lesotho issues ten postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-E Day and V-J Day. [649.96] [728.442]
  • Liberia issues 16 postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-E Day and V-J Day. [649.97] [728.468]
(month unknown)
  • The Channel Islands of Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey issue silver and gold commemorative coins marking the 60th anniversary of VE Day and the liberation of the islands from German occupation. [490.28]
  • The Bank of Sierra Leone releases six coins depicting scenes of World War II, marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the war. [491.24]
  • Canadian Department of Defence Warface Agent Disposal Project investigators discover a stash of mustard gas bombs from World War II dumped in deep water about 160 kilometres off the west coast of Vancouver Island. [552.19]
September 2
  • Marshall Islands issues four postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of V-J Day. [649.104] [728.802]
September 15
  • In London, England, British Prince Charles unveils a new granite monument memorial to participants of the Battle of Britain. The monument lists names of 2936 British and Allied pilots and crew. [507.9]
September 19
  • The Faroe Islands issues two postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of British occupation during World War II. [647.81] [707.1078]
September 20
  • Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter, dies in Vienna, Austria, at age 96. He was responsible for tracking down over 1100 war criminals. [507.9]
September 21
  • Tuvalu issues eight postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of VE Day. [651.84] [752.752]
September 23
  • Malta issues five postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [645.74]
October 27
  • Alderney issues a postage stamp marking the 60th anniversary of the homecoming of World War II evacuees. [708.369]
December 15
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina issues a postage stamp commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Jasenovac concentration camp. [687.70]
December 27
  • Niue issues twelve postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. [650.74] [728.1444]

2006

January 24
  • Togo issues six postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of V-E Day. [690.78] [752.535]
  • Togo issues seven postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of V-J Day. [690.78] [752.536]
February 16
  • Guernsey issues a postage stamp marking the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, depicting the Battle of El Alamein in 1942. [708.365]
May 2
  • Tanzania issues seven postage stamps marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. [690.73] [752.447]
June 26
  • The Solomon Islands issues three postage stamps marking the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, depicting the awarding of Crosses to Fijian and Australian infantrymen for duties at Bougainville in 1994/45. [690.66] [752.14]
(month unknown)
  • In Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England, World War II veterans display a replica of the "Turing Bombe", the code-breaking machine built to decrypt Nazi Enigma codes. [630.10]
November 17
  • Slovenia issues a postage stamp depicting partisan couriers of World War II. [689.85] (November 16 [751.1192])

2007

January 15
  • An Italian court sentences ten former SS members to life imprisonment for merders committed in Marzabotta, near Bologna, between September 29 and October 5, 1944, by retreating Nazi troops. Up to 1800 civilians were massacred. Preparations of about 100 million euros is to be paid. [721.9]
March 30
  • The Japanese givernment announces it had ordered student textbook publishers to delete passages saying the Japanese army forced civilians to commit suicide at the end of the battle of Okinawa. [720.9]
April 24
  • Italy issues a 60 cent postage stamp depicting Duccio Galamberti, World War II resistance leader. [709.76]
May 14
  • Rotterdam, The Netherlands, commemorates the attack of 1940 by German bomber planes with a display of spotlights outlining the destroyed portion of the city center. [713.11]
October 28
  • Official inauguration of Bergen-Belsen Documentation and Information Cenre in Germany, documenting the history and uses of facilities by Nazis and post-war. [725.5]

2008

June 2
  • In Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, a 2000-pound unexploded bomb from World War II is discovered during construction for the 2012 Olympic village. The bomb begins ticking when disturbed, and is then carefully defused over several days, with a 200-yard exclusion zone in place. This is the largest unexploded bomb found in London in 30 years. [742.9] [754.3]
June 4
  • A World War II tank is discovered buried beneath a road in Chartres, France, believed to belonged to US 31st Tank Battalion, used in the June 1944 D-Day landings. [754.3]

2009

July 30
  • Alderney issues two postage stamps of World War II themes, Swordfish planes attacking a German submarine, and Skuas dive-bombing the Scharnhorst. [795.64]
August 1
  • Poland issues a 3.75 zloty postage stamp marking the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II. [770.48]
August 14
  • The remains of more than 2,000 people discovered last October in Poland's largest mass grave from World War II are reburied in a military cemetery in north-west Poland, near the border between the countries. The victims are believed to be German civilians who died in the last months of the conflict, in early 1945. [756]
September 1
  • Poland issues two postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. 1.55-zloty and 2.40-zloty stamps depict battles of Wegierska Górka and Wielun, respectively. [767.68]
October 20
  • Turkey issues a postage stamp depicting Namik Kemal Yolga, diplomat who rescued Jews in World War II. [771.57]
(month unknown)
  • Poland issues three coins marking the start of World War II, a 2-zlote coin depicting the Battle of Westerplatte, a 10-zlotych silver coin depicting the struggle versus Germany and Russia in September 1939, and a 200-zlotych gold coin depicting the 20-day siege of Warsaw. [761.37]
December 16
  • Uruguay issues three postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate, depicting British and New Zealand war ships. [771.63]

2010

February 21
  • Gibraltar issues seven postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [770.45]
March 1
  • The Central Bank of Russia issues three 3-ruble 0.925 fine silver coins marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. [765.106] [769.46]
March 9
  • The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus issues two collector coins (1-ruble copper-nickel and 20-ruble 0.925 silver) marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. [769.46]
March 15
  • Tajikistan issues two postage stamps marking the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II. [799.71]
March 18
  • British Indian Ocean Territory issues seven postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [785.72]
  • Saint Helena issues seven postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [773.71]
  • Tristan da Cunha issues seven postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [781.67]
April 7
  • Poland issues a postage stamp for Katyn Massacre Remembrance Day. [781.67]
April 15
  • Kazakhstan issues a postage stamp marking the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II. [781.64]
April 16
  • Belarus issues two postage stamps marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. [781.40]
April 20
  • Azerbaijan issues three postage stamps marking the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II. [785.67]
  • Papua New Guinea issues 5 postage stamps marking the 68th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign in World War II. [781.66]
April 23
  • The National Bank of Kazakhstan releases a circulating copper-nickel 50-tenge coin marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. [769.46]
  • Tuvalu issues three postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [794.76]
April 26
  • Russia issues a 50-ruble postage stamp marking the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II. [789.76]
April 30
  • The National Bank of Ukraine releases to circulation a 1-hryvnia aluminum-bronze coin marking the 65th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. [769.46]
May 4
  • Alderney issues seven postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [795.64]
  • Aruba releases three postage stamps marking the 65th anniversary of World War II. [787.76]
May 6
  • Armenia issues a postage stamp marking the 65th anniversary of victory in World War II. [825.69]
May 7
  • Falkland Islands issues 8 postage stamps marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [771.42]
May 9
  • Moldova issues one postage stamp marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II. [795.70]
  • Uzbekistan issues four postage stamps marking 65th anniversary of victory in World War II. [794]
(month unknown)
  • Alderney issues two five-pound coins (copper-nickel, and silver) marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. [780.50]
July 29
  • Guernsey issues six postage stamps commemorating the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of Guernsey in World War II. [795.64]
August 15
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea issues six postage stamps marking 60th anniversary of the liberation of Korea. [610.77]
September 2
  • Russia issues a 15-ruble postage stamp marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II, depicting a memorial in Moscow to soldiers of USA, USSR, Great Britain, and France. [789.77] [793.109]
September 24
  • Kazakhstan releases a postage stamp of Baurjan Momasuhly, World War II hero. [787.88]
September 30
  • British Indian Ocean Territory issues two postage stamps depicting the Battle of El Alamein in 1942, and the Normandy Landings in 1944. [784.58]
December 29
  • Russia releases a brass-plated steel 10-ruble coin to circulation, depicting the official emblem of the celebration of the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. [783.42]

2011

January 14
  • Gibraltar issues a 50-pence postage stamp depicting British troops in action in World War II. [789.58]
February 23
  • Greece issues a 60-cent postage stamp marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Crete. [800.65]
(month unknown)
  • Cook Islands issues a silver dollar coin depicting the Midway battle from World War II. [786.42]

2012

April 16
  • Russia issues four postage stamps depicting World War II military vehicles. [818.74]
June 6
  • Czech Republic issues two postage stamps commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Lezáky Massacre and the Lidice Massacre. [819.68]
July 4
  • Marshall Islands issues ten postage stamps commemorating the 70th anniversary events of World War II in 1942. [815.36] [816.141] [818.70]
August 10
  • Malta issues 88 postage stamps depicting the ships involved in Operation Pedestal 70 years ago. [820.74]
September 21
  • France issues a postage stamp of Camp des Milles, a World War II Internment Camp. [819.72]

2017

August 19
  • The research vessel Petrel locates the wreck of the USS Indianapolis, 18,000 feet below the surface of the Philippine Sea. (The Indianapolis was sunk by submarine torpedoes days after delivering atomic bomb components.) [843.46]
End of 2000-2017.

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