Diary WW2

Diary for Friday, February 3, 1940: Air War 20 Heinkel He 111‘s (3 lost) attack ships (2 sunk) off British East Coast.

Diary for Saturday, February 3, 1945: Air War Germany: 937 B-17 Fortress, escorted by 900 fighters (24 planes lost), RAID BERLIN setting fire to 5 sq km in central districts

Diary for Friday, February 2, 1945: Western Front Alsac: French and Americans enter Colmar.

Diary for Friday, February 2, 1940: Politics Balkan Entente Conference at Belgrade: Neutrals Yugoslavia, Greece, Romania and Turkey proclaim common interests in maintenance of peace in southeast Europe and renew

Diary Thursday, February 1, 1940 Finland Winter War – Second battle of Summa: Russian 7th Army batters key sector of Mannerheim Line near village of Summa, with waves of tanks

Diary for Thursday, February 1, 1945 Russian Front Poland: Rokossovsky captures Torun after 6-day siege. Western Front Alsace: US 7th Army crosses river Moder.

Wednesday, January 31, 1945 Home Fronts USA: 16 war workers’ children killed by fire in nursery at Auburn, Maine. Germany: Gollob (150 victories) succeeds Galland as General der Jagdflieger. Russian

Diary for Wednesday, January 31, 1940 Secret War Italy: Secret British military mission to Italy orders 300 Caproni Re 2000 fighters. Germany vetoes deal in April. British attempts to obtain

Diary for Tuesday, January 30, 1940 Sea War Heinkel He 111 bombers again attack shipping off British coast. German U-boat U-55 attacks convoy off Land’s End, sinking 2 ships; but

Diary for January 30, 1945 Sea War Baltic: WORST SEA DISASTER IN HISTORY. 7,000 refugees drown when Russian Scuka class submarine S-13 sinks liner Wilhelm Gustloff. Western Front Allied forces

Monday, January 29, 1940 Finland Winter War: Battle of Kuhmo begins. Finns encircle Russian 54th Division at Kuhmo, in the ‘Waist’. Heavy Russian air raids on Finnish ports. Politics Russia

Monday, January 29, 1945 Russian Front Poland: Zhukov encircles large German garrison in Poznan. Sea War Baltic: German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and destroyers bombard advancing Russian forces on East

Sunday, January 28, 1940 Home Fronts Britain: Director of Censorship permits newspapers belatedly to reveal details of Britain’s (MAIN EVENT) the coldest winter since 1894: River Thames and Southampton Docks

Sunday, January 28, 1945 China First supply convoy reaches China via Ledo Road. Western Front Ardennes: US 1st Army attacks east of St Vith. Air War Europe: 1,000 bombers of

Saturday, January 27, 1940 Home Fronts Britain: Winston Churchill (uneasy at slow increase in war production) speaks at Free Trade Hall, Manchester: ‘each to our station … there is not

Saturday, January 27, 1945 Russian Front Zhukov‘s forces now only 161 km from Berlin; Memel falls. Sea War Atlantic: 5 ships sunk by U-boat U-1232 off Halifax during January.

Friday, January 26, 1940 Home Fronts France: Paul Ferdonnet, the ‘Radio Traitor’ – notorious for his pro-Nazi broadcasts in French language from Stuttgart – is tried in absentia by a

Friday, January 26, 1945 Russian Front Rokossovsky breaks through the Gulf of Danzig, virtually isolating German forces in East Prussia. Western Front Lieutenant Audie Murphy, most decorated US soldier of

Thursday, January 25, 1945 Sea War Baltic – GREATEST EVACUATION IN HISTORY: 1,500,000­ – 2,000,000 German troops and civilians rescued by May 8 from East Prussia, Pomerania and Courland in

Thursday, January 25, 1940 Occupied countries Poland – ‘Goring-Frank Circular’: all material resources and manpower to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich (copies of this top-secret