Diary WW2

Diary for Wednesday, May 29, 1940: Air War Two elite units of Junkers Ju 88 bombers join assault on Dunkirk. Squadron of RAF Defiant two-seat fighters claim 37 ‘kills’ over […]

Diary for Tuesday, May 29, 1945: Okinawa Marines capture Shuri Castle, former Japanese HQ, and Shuri town (both are in total ruins). Syria Fighting between French forces and Syrian Nationalists

Diary for Tuesday, May 28, 1940: Norway NARVIK CAPTURED by French Foreign Legion and Norwegians. Sea War 17,800 troops evacuated from Dunkirk; destroyer Windsor damaged by bombs; small steamer sunk

Diary for Monday, May 28, 1945: Okinawa US Marines advance to Naha Harbour and Kokuba Estuary. Occupied countries Germany: ‘Lord Haw-Haw‘ ‘William Joyce) captured by British troops. Sea War Atlantic:

Diary for Monday, May 27, 1940: Western Front Guderian is permitted, by his superiors, to continue the advance from river Aa towards Dunkirk, employing motorized infantry (tanks to be held

Diary for Sunday, May 27, 1945: Sea War Pacific: Japanese submarine pack makes unsuccessful attacks on US convoys on Leyte-Okinawa and Guam­-Okinawa routes (May 27 – June 28).

Diary for Sunday, May 26, 1940: Sea War DUNKIRK EVACUATION (Operation Dynamo) begins. Zeebrugge harbor sabotaged by Royal Navy; 4 block ships sunk. Air War Spitfire Mk Is destroy 6

Diary for Saturday, May 26, 1945: Okinawa US guns and bombers pound Japanese troops withdrawing from Shuri Line. Occupied countries Germany: SHAEF HQ trans­ferred from Rheims to Frankfurt-am-Main.

Diary for Saturday, May 25, 1940: Western Front BEF despatch two divisions to block the gap between Menin and Ypres. Germans capture 5,000 British and French troops at Boulogne. British

Diary for Friday, May 25, 1945: Secret War Allied European Commands asked not to reveal Ultra Secret. Home Fronts USA: Over 60 casualties in Wast at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.

Diary for Thursday, May 24, 1940: Western Front German infantry storm old Citadel, Boulogne. Guderian seals off Calais pocket. HITLER AND RUNDSTEDT HALT PANZER CORPS at Gravelines, southwest of Dunkirk.

Diary for Thursday, May 24, 1945: Okinawa 9 Japanese bomber-transports approach the island (8 lost); survivor crash­-lands 12-man suicide squad on Yontan airfield, which destroys 8 planes, petrol and ammunition

Diary for Thursday, May 23, 1940: Western Front Germans cross river Scheldt at Oudenarde. BEF in Belgium put on half-rations following loss of supply depots. Sea War Six British destroyers

Diary for Wednesday, May 23, 1945: Occupied countries Germany: Members of Dönitz Government, German High Command and General Staff, taken into custody and interned aboard liner Patria in Flensburg harbor.

Diary for Wednesday, May 22, 1940: Air War RAF bomb German communications and dumps on river Meuse near Namur and north of river Aisne. Attempted raid on Leipzig power station

Diary for Tuesday, May 22, 1945: Okinawa Persistent heavy rain until early June seriously reduces mobility of US armor and gives Japanese respite, during which they evacuate wounded and equipment

Diary for Tuesday, May 21, 1940: Western Front British and French armor counter-attack Rommel’s 7th Panzer division at Arras. After initial success attacks fail and end May 23. Germans besiege

Diary for Monday, May 21, 1945: Home Fronts Japan: 2 million students mobilized in ‘Student Defense Corps’. USA: Humphrey Bogart marries Lauren Bacall. Okinawa Americans capture Sugar Hill – exposing

Diary for Monday, May 20, 1940: Western Front Guderian’s 1st and 2nd Panzer divisions race to the Channel Coast, despite gallant but ineffectual resistance by troops from British 12th and

Diary for Sunday, May 20, 1945: Okinawa Chocolate Drop Hill secured by US infantry after savage fighting around maze of interconnected tunnels. Japanese counter-attack on ‘The Horseshoe’ (200 killed).