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St. Nazaire: raid (1942)
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London: struck by unexploded bomb
Saipan
Sajer, Guy, 15.1, 23.1, 24.1
Saldhana, George
Saldhana, Jose
Salerno, Italy: landings, 13.1, 18.1, 21.1
Samoilov, David, 6.1, 21.1
Samokhvalov, Private
Sandeman, Capt. Arthur
Santa Cruz (Pacific)
Sapieha, Princess Paul (Virgilia), 1.1, 1.2
Sapir, Estelle
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sauberzweig, Karl-Gustav
Saumur: cadets resist Germans
Saurma, Lt. Tony
Savarkar, Veer Damodar
Savo Island: U.S. naval defeat, 10.1, 10.2
Say, Rosemary, 3.1, 13.1
Scheldt estuary
Schlesinger, Arthur, 8.1, 10.1, 20.1, 26.1
Schlesinger, Elizabeth
Schmid, Col. “Beppo,”
Schmidt, Bernice
Schmuckle, Gerd
Schneider, Helga
Schnorkel (German submarine air-replenishment system)
Schönbeck, Hans-Erdmann
Schoo, Donald, 13.1, 23.1
Schörner, Gen. Ferdinand
Schrodek, Panzer Lt. Gustav
Schröder, Capt. Rolf-Helmut, 13.1, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1
Schwanenflügel, Dorothea von
Schwerin von Krosigk, Johann Ludwig, Graf von (Lutz von Krosigk)
Scott, Col. Robert
Seabrook, Maj. Belford
Sealion, Operation: postponed, 4.1
Sebastian, Mihail, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1, 20.1, 26.1
Sebelev, Pyotr
Second Front: delayed, see also Normandy
Sedan
Seeckt, Gen. Hans von
Seeds, Sir William
Selective Service Act (U.S., 1940), 8.1
Selerie, Peter
Senger und Etterlin, Gen. Fridolin von
Serbia: Jews and gypsies killed
Serbs: Croats persecute, 18.1, 18.2
Sevareid, Eric
Sevastopol, 12.1, 12.2, 21.1
Seversky, Maj. Alexander
Sexwale, Frank
Shabalin, Maj. Ivan
Shabolsky, Professor Yan
Shaw, Irwin: The Young Lions, 20.1
Sherbrooke, Cmdr. Robert, VC
Sherwood, Robert, 8.1, 8.2
ships: new designs
Shirer, William
Sho-Go, Operation, 22.1, 22.2
Short, Lt. Gen. Walter
Shostakovich, Dmitry, 7.1, 12.1
Showers, Colonel
Siamese Prince (cargo liner), 11.1
Sicily: Allies invade (July 1943), 15.1, 18.1, 18.2; Germans evacuate, 18.3; outcome and lessons, 18.4, 21.1
Siegel, Grete
Siegfried Line
Sierra Leone
Siialsvuo, Col. Hjalmar
Sikorski, Gen. Władysław
Simon, Irma
Simpson, Flight Lt. Bill
Simpson, Gen. William Hood
Sinclair, Captain (Ashanti district commissioner)
Singapore: prewar life in, 9.1; bombed, 9.2; falls to Japanese, 9.3
Singh, Jaswal (“Tiger”)
Singh, Gen. Mohan
Singh, Lt. Shiv
Sivolobov (Russian partisan leader)
Skillett, Gladys
Skopina, Dr. Sof’ya
Skorzeny, Otto, 18.1, 23.1
Skryabina, Elena, 7.1, 7.2
Ślązak, George, 1.1, 1.2
Ślązak family
Sledge, U.S. Marine Eugene
Slesarev, Alexander
Slesarev, Vasily
Slessor, Air Marshal John
Slim, Gen. William: resists Japanese advance in Burma, 9.1; retreats over Irrawaddy, 9.2; on Japanese fighting qualities, 10.1; and British actions in Burma, 22.1, 22.2; reputation and popularity, 22.3; recaptures Burma, 25.1, 25.2; meets Aung San, 25.3; qualities, 26.1
Slovakia: Jews in, 20.1, 20.2
Smersh: reports on Kursk battle, 15.1; anticollaborator actions, 21.1
Smith, Lt. Gen. Holland
Smith, Howard
Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell: hatred of Montgomery
Smolensk, 6.1, 6.2, 15.1
Smorczewski, Ralph and Mark
Smuts, Field Marshal Jan Christian
Smyth, Maj. Gen. Sir John
Snow, Edgar
Soddu, Gen. Ubaldo
Solak, B. J.
Solomon Islands, 10.1, 17.1; see also East Solomons
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Somaliland
Somervell, Gen. Brehon
Somerville, Adm. Sir James, 4.1, 26.1
Sorge, Richard
Sorpe dam
Sosnkowska, Jadwiga
Sotnik, Misha
South Africa: troops in North Africa, 5.1, 5.2; coloured and black recruits, 16.1; treatment of Indians, 16.2
South America: remoteness from war, 16.1; Nazi refugees in, 26.1
Soviet Russia: agrees to partition of Poland, 1.1; nonaggression pact with Germany (1939), 1.2; occupies eastern Poland (1939), 1.3; deportations and atrocities in Poland, 1.4; invades Finland, 2.1; Finnish armistice, 2.2; and effect of fall of France, 3.1; rearmament, 3.2, 6.1; Germany plans invasion, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1; as cultural threat to Germany, 5.2; Germans invade, 6.2, 6.3, 26.1; German treatment of, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1; German strategy in, 6.7, 7.2; repressive regime, 6.8; military strength