Diary March 5, 1945
Diary for Monday, March 5, 1945: Western Front Americans enter Cologne. Air War Germany: RAF daylight raid on Gelsenkirchen oil plant.
Diary WW2
Diary March 4, 1940
Diary for Monday, March 4, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns repulse attacks east and west of Viipuri (in the West Russians attack across ice of Viipuri Bay).
Diary March 4, 1945
Diary for Sunday, March 4, 1945: Burma British 14th Army captures Meiktila, south of Mandalay. Western Front US tanks (1st US Army) reach the Rhine north of Cologne. Air War
Diary March 3, 1940
Diary for Sunday, March 3, 1940: Finland Winter War: Hand-to-hand fighting in suburbs of Viipuri. Russians capture railway station.
Diary March 3, 1945
Diary for Saturday, March 3, 1945: Western Front Canadians and Americans link up between Maas and Rhine. Philippines Japanese resistance in Manila ends. Air War Britain: 100 German night intruders
Diary March 2, 1940
Diary for Friday, March 2, 1940: Finland Winter War: Russians reach southern suburbs of Viipuri. Finnish fighters foil attempted raid on Helsinki. Air War Germany: High-flying RAF Supermarine Spitfire photographs
Diary March 2, 1945
Diary for Friday, March 2, 1945: Air War Germany: 2 RAF daylight raids on Cologne. 406 USAAF bombers attacking again Dresden. Western Front 9th US Army takes Krefeld, Venlo and
Diary March 1, 1945
Diary for Thursday, March 1, 1945: Western Front München-Gladbach captured by US 9th Army.
Diary March 1, 1940
Diary for Friday, March 1, 1940: Finland Winter War: Russians within 6 km of center of Viipuri. Fierce aerial dog fights over city.
Diary February 29, 1940
Diary for Thursday, February 29, 1940: Finland Winter War: Battle of Viipuri begins. Russians make all-out effort to crush resistance in Karelian Isthmus by encircling city of Viipuri and reaching
Diary February 28, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, February 28, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns storm entrenched camp of starving 34th Moscow Tank Brigade near Kitelae, capturing 105 tanks, 200 trucks and field cars. Home
Diary February 28, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, February 28, 1945: Western Front US 1st Army crosses river Erth, 10 km from Cologne. Politics Allied-occupied Iran declares war on Japan. Saudi Arabia declares war on
Diary February 27, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns begin to withdraw to rear positions of Mannerheim Line.
Diary February 27, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1945: Russian Front Rokossovsky drives into Pomerania. Politics French-occupied Lebanon declares war on Germany and Japan.
Diary February 26, 1940
Diary for Monday, February 26, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns announce evacuation of Koivisto coastal fortress, on right flank of Mannerheim Line. Sea War Atlantic: Liner Queen Elizabeth (83,700 tons)
Diary February 26, 1945
Diary for Monday, February 26, 1945: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF carries out 3,000 t. raid with 1,112 bombers on Berlin; 1/2 Million incendiaries dropped. Main targets: 3 railway stations
Diary February 25, 1940
Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1940: Air War First squadron of Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) reaches Britain.
Diary February 25, 1945
Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1945: Western Front 1st and 9th US Armies break German defenses at river Roer west of Cologne, capturing Düren and Jülich.
Diary February 24, 1940
Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1940: Western Front MANSTEIN PLAN ADOPTED by German Army High Command. Hitler accepts proposal by General von Manstein – backed by Generals von Rundstedt and
Diary February 24, 1945
Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1945: Philippines Americans crush desperate Japanese resistance in the Intramuros old walled quarter of Manila. Air War Germany: Colonel Ivan Kojedub, top scoring Russian (and
