Diary WW2

War Diary for Thursday, November 30, 1944: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF encounters severe flak during raids on oil plants in Leipzig area (53 planes lost). RAF drops 2,000 t. […]

War Diary for Thursday, November 30, 1939: Finland WINTER WAR: RUSSIAN INVASION OF FINLAND. 26 divisions attack on four fronts at Karelian Isthmus, North of lake Ladoga, in the ‘Waist’,

War Diary for Wednesday, November 29, 1944: Russian Front Russian and Yugoslav forces capture Mohacs and Pecs, after crossing river Danube south of Budapest. Sea War Pacific: Giant Japanese aircraft

War Diary for Wednesday, November 29, 1939: Politics Russia severs diplomatic relations with Finland.

War Diary for Tuesday, November 28, 1939: Politics Russia renounces Soviet-Finnish Non-Aggression Pact (signed 1932). Finns inform Moscow that investigations show that Russian artillery fired the 7 shells at Russian

War Diary for Tuesday, November 28, 1944: Western Front 3rd US Army (Patton) holds now 42-km wide salient inside West Germany (Saar) – in front of the Siegfried Line. 9th

War Diary for Monday, November 27, 1944: Air War Germany: Very heavy day and night raids on marshalling yards in Western Germany. Freiburg severely damaged in night raid. Pacific: Second

War Diary for Monday, November 27, 1939: China Sino-Japanese War: Japanese capture Nanning, important rail head in southwest China. Sea War British Government orders seizure of German exports on the

War Diary for Sunday, November 26, 1939: Politics ‘Mainila Incident’: Russians accuse Finns of shelling village of Mainila, killing 4 soldiers, and demand immediate withdrawal of Finnish troops from vicinity

War Diary for Sunday, November 26, 1944: Air War Germany: 8th USAAF attacks Misburg oil plant (Hanover), Hamm marshalling yards and Bielefeld railway viaduct; claims 138 fighters destroyed for loss

War Diary for Saturday, November 25, 1944: Air War Germany: Massive 8th USAAF raids on Leuna oil plant and Bingen marshall­ing yards. Britain: V-2 hits crowded Woolworth department store in

War Diary for Saturday, November 25, 1939: Sea War Germans lay mines off South West Sweden, inside Swedish territorial waters. Sweden protests on November 27.

War Diary for Friday, November 24, 1944: Sea War Atlantic: RCN corvette Shawinigan sunk by German U-boat U-1228 in Cabot Straits (between C. Breton Island and Newfoundland). 91 killed; no

War Diary for Friday, November 24, 1939: Home Fronts Germany: Government takes in trust the property and financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. The iron and steel magnate and a key

War Diary for Thursday, November 23, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: British armed merchant-cruiser Rawalpindi overwhelmed by German battlecruiser Scharnhorst southeast of Iceland (265 dead). Scharnhorst and Gneisenau avoid pursuit and

War Diary for Thursday, November 23, 1944: Western Front French and American forces enter Strasbourg. Russian Front Russians take Cop (Slovakia). Sea War Pacific: British Eastern Fleet abolished. Older ships

War Diary for Wednesday, November 22, 1939: Sea War Royal Navy experts defuse German magnetic mine dropped on Shoeburyness mud flats off coast of Essex. After examining its mechanism, they

War Diary for Wednesday, November 22, 1944: Western Front Americans secure Metz. US 1st and 9th Armies capture Eschweiler. Air War Germany: 237 RAF bombers attacking Aschaffenburg and dropping 1,360

War Diary for Tuesday, November 21, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst despatched into North Atlantic. Mine victims off British East Coast include new cruiser HMS Belfast

War Diary for Tuesday, November 21, 1944: Sea War Pacific: Japanese Battleship Kongo sunk by US submarine Sealion II, near Formosa. Air War Germany: 247 RAF night bombers breach Dortmund-Ems