Diary WW2

Diary for Tuesday, March 4, 1941: Occupied countries Norway: British-Norwegian raid on Lofoten Islands (Operation Claymore). British commandos and Norwegian marines destroy 6 fish-oil plants (connected with explosives production), capture […]

Diary for Monday, March 3, 1941: Air War Italians bomb earthquake-stricken town of Larissa. RAF Hurricanes destroy 5 Cant bombers (probably returning from Larissa) over Corfu. Politics Russia denounces Bulgarian

Diary for Sunday, March 2, 1941: North Africa Tripoli propaganda military parade of the Afrika Korps. Air War BOAC begin regular, clandestine, night flights between Northern Scotland and Stockholm, using

Diary for Saturday, March 1, 1941: Politics BULGARIA JOINS THE AXIS. German troops enter Sofia. see also: Bulgarian Armed Forces Air War Europe: 100 RAF bombers raid Cologne (night March

Diary for Friday, February 28, 1941: Air War The Blitz in February 1941: 789 dead and 1,068 seriously wounded British civilian casualties. Blenheim bombers and single-engined Wellesleys bomb Asmara (Eritrea).

Diary for Thursday, February 27, 1941: Sea War Italian armed merchant raider Ramb I (3,700 t.) catches fire and blows up during engagement with RNZN cruiser Leander off the Maldives.

Diary for Wednesday, February 26, 1941: Air War 60 German bombers and Ju 87 Stukas (7 lost) with fighter escort, raid airfields on Malta, destroying or damaging 13 Wellington bombers

Diary for Tuesday, February 25, 1941: Sea War Italian fast cruiser Armando Diaz sunk by British sub Upright in Mediterranean. Escort destroyer Exmoor sunk by German E-boat off Lowestoft. East

Diary for Monday, February 24, 1941: North Africa First skirmish between British and Afrika Korps patrols on coast road west of El Agheila. Vichy France Admiral Darlan forms Cabinet. Air

Diary for Sunday, February 23, 1941: Home Fronts Italy: Mussolini speaks at Fascist rally in Adriano Theatre, Rome: ‘We shall fight to the last drop of our blood.’ He attempts

Diary for Saturday, February 22, 1941: Sea War Atlantic: German battle cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst scatter convoy east of Newfoundland and sink 5 ships. Air War Ju 87 Stukas cripple

Diary for Friday, February 21, 1941: Home Fronts Canada: Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin treatment for diabetics and Nobel Prize winner, killed in air crash whilst flying to England;

Diary for Thursday, February 20, 1941: East Africa South Africans cross river Juba in Italian-Somaliland.

Diary for Wednesday, February 19, 1941: Air War Britain: First of 3 consecutive night raids on Swansea.

Diary for Tuesday, February 18, 1941: Politics Amicable settlement of Anglo-Swiss dispute over British bombing raids on Basle and Zürich in December, 1940.

Diary for Monday, February 17, 1941: Politics Japan offers its services as mediator to end all current wars and blames Britain and USA for prolongation of European War.

Diary for Sunday, February 16, 1941: Air War South African aircraft dive-bomb Italian positions on East bank of river Juba, in Southern Italian Somaliland.

Diary for Saturday, February 15, 1941: Neutrals USA: Roosevelt sends James B. Conant, President of Harvard University, to Britain to exchange views on war technology. Air War Home-based RAF aircraft

Diary for Friday, February 14, 1941: North Africa Advanced elements of German Afrika Korps arrive at Tripoli. Politics Britain severs diplomatic relations with Rumania.

Diary for Thursday, February 13, 1941: Sea War Operation Composition: Albacore biplanes from British carrier Formidable raid shipping at Massawa (Italian East Africa). Politics General Franco (Spain) meets Petain (Vichy