Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Friday, December 5, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: SURPRISE RUSSIAN COUNTER-OFFENSIVE IN MOSCOW SECTOR. 4 armies attack north of city. Coincidentally, Guderian has already decided to […]

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, December 4, 1941: Occupied Territories Poland: General Sikorski, Prime Minister of Polish Government-in-Exile, broadcasts to Russian people from Moscow.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, December 3, 1941: Sea War Baltic: Transport J Stalin (7,500t), evacuating Russian troops besieged at Hango since June, wrecked by 4 mines, approx. 2,000 killed;

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, December 2, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German infantry detachment reaches Khimki tram station, 19 km from centre of Moscow, but is repulsed by Russian

WW2 War Diary for Monday, December 1, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German 4th Army with Guderian‘s and Hoepner‘s Panzer Armies make final attempt to envelop and capture Moscow. Sea

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 30, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Hitler vetoes withdrawal from Rostov. Rundstedt resigns; replaced as commander of Army Group South by Reichenau. Occupied Territories

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 29, 1941: North Africa Operation Crusader: Rommel counter-attacks; heavy fighting develops between Tobruk and Sidi Rezegh.

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 28, 1941: North Africa Operation Crusader: General von Ravenstein, Commander of 21st Panzer division, captured when Bren gunner shoots up his staff car.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, November 27, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German offensive stalls only 30 km from Moscow. East Africa Ethiopia: 20,000 Italian troops surrender at Gondar. Liberation

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 25, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean: Battleship Barham sunk by U-boat U-331 off Bardia (862 killed in magazine explosion). Sea War Pacific: US Navy orders

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 24, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops capture Solnechaya Gora, 48 km northwest of Moscow. Sea War Atlantic: Cruiser HMS Dunedin sunk by

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 23, 1941: Home Fronts Britain: Death of P.C. Wren, author of ‘Beau Geste’, aged 56.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 22, 1941: Home Fronts Germany: General Moelders, fighter ace (115 victories), killed in air accident near Breslau (Silesia); aged 30. Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa:

WW2 War Diary for Friday, November 21, 1941: Sea War Mediterranean – 2 Italian cruisers torpedoed and damaged: Trieste by British submarine Utmost and Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, November 20, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa – Siege of Leningrad (Day 74): personal food ration cut for fifth time since early September. Politics USA:

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, November 19, 1941: Sea War Indian Ocean: Battle off Shark Bay (West Australia) between disguised raider Kormoran and cruiser Sydney, both ships crippled – Sydney

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 18, 1941: North Africa OPERATION CRUSADER: British 8th Army launch successful counter-offensive in Western Desert. Rommel smashes South African 5th Brigade, then retreats (November

WW2 War Diary for Monday, November 17, 1941: Occupied Territories Russia: Alfred Rosenberg, author of the Nazi ‘bible’, ‘The Myth of the Twentieth Century‘, appointed Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, November 16, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: German troops take Kerch (Crimea).

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, November 15, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: After the mud is frozen the German units, under von Bock, resume direct advance on Moscow. Sea War