Diary WW2

Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1940: Occupied countries Norway: Terboven appointed Reichskommissar for Norway (formerly Gauleiter of Essen). Politics Germany officially at war with Norway. Ribbentrop attempts to justify German […]

Diary for Friday, April 27, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Russians capture suburbs of Potsdam, Spandau and Rathenow; central districts of Neuköln and Tempelhof. Western Front Bremen captured by

Diary for Friday, April 26, 1940: Norway Norwegians and British halt German advance along Gudbrandsdal Valley at Kvam. Norwegian CinC General Ruge issues optimistic Order of the Day: ‘now the

Diary for Thursday, April 26, 1945: Russian and Western Front RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN FORCES LINK UP at Torgau on the Elbe. Western Front Patton crosses Danube in Regensburg sector. Russian

Diary for Thursday, April 25, 1940: Sea War British armed trawlers Bradman, Hammond and Larwood sunk by German aircraft off Andalsnes (they are subsequently raised and operated as German patrol

Diary for Wednesday, April 25, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Zhukov and Konev forces near Potsdam to complete their ‘iron ring’ around the city. Air War Germany: 381 RAF

Diary for Wednesday, April 24, 1940: Sea War British battleship Warspite and three cruisers bombard Narvik, planned landing of troops from cruiser Vindictive is cancelled. Three French destroyers engage German

Diary for Tuesday, April 24, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Konev‘s and Zhukov’s troops link up in southern suburbs. Western Front British troops reach Bremen. Italy La Spezia naval

Diary for Tuesday, April 23, 1940: Air War German bombers raid Scapa Flow (night April 22-23). Home Fronts Australia: Prime Minister Menzies threatens to re-open coal mines by force if

Diary for Monday, April 23, 1945: Russian Front Frankfurt-on-Oder captured by Zhukov. Occupied countries Czechoslovakia: Government-in­-Exile calls for final national uprising. Home Fronts Britain: Black-out restric­tions cancelled. Italy British 8th

Diary for Monday, April 22, 1940: Air War French reconnaissance aircraft reach Prague (night April 22-23).

Diary for Sunday, April 22, 1945: Russian Front Battle of Berlin: Russians capture Weissensee district. Hitler decides to remain in Berlin. Italy US 5th Army reaches river Po at Ostiglia.

Diary for Sunday, April 21, 1940: Air War RAF bombers (1 lost) raid Aalborg airfield (north Denmark) and Stavanger–Sola airfield.

Diary for Saturday, April 21, 1945: Russian Front BATTLE OF BERLIN. ZHUKOV‘S TROOPS ENTER SUBURBS. Konev attacks north of Dresden. Western Front French occupy Stuttgart. Italy ALLIES CAPTURE BOLOGNA. General

Diary for Friday, April 20, 1940: Air War German bombers (3 lost) attack British naval units off Norway.

Diary for Friday, April 20, 1945: Western Front ‘Stars and Stripes’ raised over rostrum of Nuremberg Stadium ­scene of Nazi Party rallies. Lattre de Tassigny’s French 1st Army execute rapid

Diary for Friday, April 19, 1940: Norway British brigade, advancing south from Namsos, reaches Verdal, 80 km from Trondheim. French troops (Chasseurs Alpins) land as reinforcements at Namsos. But German

Diary for Thursday, April 19, 1945: Okinawa US 24th Corps, 10th Army, launches general assault on outer defenses of ‘Shuri Line’, in the south, after preparatory bombardment by 139 planes,

Diary for Thursday, April 18, 1940: Norway British base established at Molde; troops land at nearby Alesund. Operation Hammer cancelled – British plan (Churchill and Admiral Keyes) for direct assault

Diary for Wednesday, April 18, 1945: Western Front 370,000-strong Army Group B. surrenders in Ruhr ‘Pocket’; Field Marshal Model commits suicide. Royal Engineers begin constructing Bailey Bridge over the Rhine,