Feb 16, 1942-Dönitz orders all available U-boats in the Atlantic to attack British and American shipping off the US eastern seaboard. German U-boats, with their deck guns, bombard oil storage facilities and refineries on the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curacao in the southern Caribbean.
Mr. Enright, a middle-aged man, lived in Curacao during 1942 of World War II.
During the war Curacao's economy boomed but they did have to live with the fear of the Nazi U Boats circling their island. They were pulled out of poverty during the war and after the war. They became a great tourist island. See related link below.
HMS Curacao was cut in half by the SS Queen Mary.
Romania during World War I happened in 1916-08.
The refinery. They produced jet fuel for the Americans
Because they had oil.
what happened in the early weeks of the war
Curacao was important as an oil terminal for the allies during WW2. Being a colony of the Netherlands it was important to prevent its use by German shipping after the Netherlands was invaded. Many oil tankers destined for Britain were filled there.
World War one happened!
In 1939, The World War II itself began.
World War I happened during the Wilson Administration.
None. World War 3 has not happened.