Diary WW2

War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 15, 1939: Finland Winter War – Battle of Suomussalmi: Finns destroy 163rd (Tula) Division and 44th motorized Division in the ‘Waist’. Russian losses: 6,000-plus

War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 15, 1944: Air War Europe: Lancaster bombers escorted by Spitfires drop 12,000-lb. bombs on E-boat pens at Ijmuiden (Holland). Western Front 7th US Army

War Diary WW2 for Thursday, December 14, 1944: Sea War Pacific: TF 38 raids airfields on Luzon, destroying 170 Japanese aircraft for the loss of 65 US planes. Western Front

War Diary WW2 for Thursday, December 14, 1939: Finland Winter War: Russians launch new drive on Petsamo front (Arctic). Politics LEAGUE OF NATIONS EXPELS SOVIET UNION (RUSSIA). Sea War Atlantic:

War Diary WW2 for Wednesday, December 13, 1939: Sea War Atlantic – BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE: British cruisers Exeter and Ajax and NZ cruiser Achilles intercept pocket-battleship Admiral Graf

War Diary WW2 for Wednesday, December 13, 1944: Air War Pacific: B-29 Superfortress seriously damage Mitsubishi works at Nagoya. Germany: RAF bombers attacking Essen and dropping 2,354 t of bombs.

War Diary WW2 for Tuesday, December 12, 1939: Finland Winter War – Battle of Tolvaajarvi: Finns destroy two divisions north of Lake Ladoga, killing 4,000 Russians, capturing 30 guns, 60

War Diary WW2 for Tuesday, December 12, 1944: Western Front US 1st Army battles its way through the Hürtgen Forest to within 2 km of Düren. Air War Germany: Lancaster

War Diary WW2 for Monday, December 11, 1944: Western Front US 7th Army enters Haguenau (Alsace). Air War Europe: 2,000 bombers of 8th and 15th USAAFs attack rail targets in

War Diary World War One for Monday, December 11, 1939: Politics League of Nations urges Russia to cease hostilities in Finland within 24 hours and accept mediation (Russian rejection on

War Diary WW2 for Sunday, December 10, 1944: Air War Germany: Americans bomb rail targets at Coblenz and Bingen. Politics Franco-Soviet 20-year Treaty of Alliance signed in Moscow. Occupied countries

War Diary WW2 for Sunday, December 10, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: First Canadian troop convoy sails from Halifax, with 5 liners under heavy escort (arrives Britain, December 23). Baltic: Russian

War Diary WW2 for Saturday, December 9, 1939: Western Front Corporal Thomas Priday of King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, killed leading a patrol, is first British soldier to be killed in

War Diary WW2 for Saturday, December 9, 1944: Air War Germany: Stuttgart raided by the 8th USAAF. Western Front 3rd US Army repels German counter-attack at Saarlautern.

War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 8, 1944: Western Front Americans occupy undefeated Fort Driant after its surrender after the fall of Metz. Air War Germany: RAF daylight raids on

War Diary WW2 for Friday, December 8, 1939: Air War Polish exile-squadrons to be attached to the RAF. Polish Forces in Exile

War Diary WW2 for Thursday, December 7, 1944: Western Front 3rd US Army penetrates Siegfried Line northwest of Saarlautern. Sea War Pacific: Americans land at Ormoc on west coast of

War Diary WW2 for Thursday, December 7, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: Pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee sinks SS Streonshalh south of Trinidad, her ninth and last victim. British cruiser squadron sails

War Diary WW2 for Wednesday, December 6, 1944 Western Front 3rd US Army enters Sarreguemines (Moselle). British 2nd Army held up southwest of Arnhem by German demolition of dykes and

Diary for Wednesday, December 6, 1939: Sea War Mines laid, by night, off British East Coast, by German seaplanes and destroyers (which also damage destroyer HMS Jersey by a torpedo).