Diary WW2

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 21, 1944: Russian Front Polish 1st Army forced to withdraw from its bridgeheads in Warsaw. Western Front Infantry of British 2nd Army tries to […]

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 20, 1944: Western Front Allied ground and airborne forces link up at Nijmegen. Polish Division reaches river Scheldt along 10-km front.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 20, 1939: Air War Western Front: RAF’s first clash with Luftwaffe. Me 109 s attack 3 Battle recce­-bombers over Siegfried Line. One Messerschmitt fighter

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 19, 1939: Poland Bzura Battle ends. 100,000 officers and men from defeated Polish Pomorze and Poznan Armies surrender. Germans surround Lvov, Eastern Poland. Home

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 19, 1944: Western Front Siege of Brest ends. Allies capture Eindhoven. Air War Europe: RAF night raids on Rheydt and München-Gladbach – key traffic

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 18, 1944: Western Front Armored spearheads of British 2nd Army make contact with the first airborne forces in Holland. Occupied Countries Romania: Antonescu arrested

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 18, 1939: Poland Russian Forces now 60 miles (ca. 97 km) inside Poland. Virtually no resistance. Sea War Atlantic: SS Kensington Court shelled and

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 17, 1944: Air War Europe – BATTLE OF ARNHEM. 1st Allied Airborne Army (2 US and 1 British divisions with Polish Parachute Brigade) transported

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, September 17, 1939: Poland RUSSIAN INVASION OF POLAND against negligible defenses. German Army Groups North and South link up at Wlodawa, on river Bug, Eastern

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 16, 1939: Poland German ultimatum to Warsaw Garrison and civil population rejected. Polish air force bombers make final sorties. Politics Russia informs Poland that

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, September 16, 1944: Russian Front Guderian counter­-attacks near Gulf of Riga with troops brought from far south of the Front, spear­headed by scratch Panzers divisions

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 15, 1939: Poland Germans surround Warsaw and occupy Galician oilfields (southeast Poland). Sea War Atlantic: First British trans-Atlantic convoy sails from Kingston, Jamaica. Politics

WW2 War Diary for Friday, September 15, 1944: Western Front Americans break through Siegfried Line, east of Aachen. FFI and Americans capture Nancy. Russian Front Polish 1st Army of 1st

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 14, 1939: Poland Fall of Gdynia, Poland’s only seaport, and the city of Brest-Litovsk, Eastern Poland. The Citadel of Brest-Litovsk still holds out. Sea

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, September 14, 1944: Western Front US forces and Dutch Resistance capture Maastricht.

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 13, 1939: Poland German infantry cross river Vistula, South of Warsaw. German High Command announces its intention to crush guerrilla operations and sabotage by

WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, September 13, 1944: Air War Germany: 209 RAF bombers attacking Stuttgart and dropping 781 t of bombs. RAF bombers attacking Frankfurt and dropping 1,556 t

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 12, 1939: Poland Germans rush reinforcements (including tank units) from Warsaw front to Bzura battle area (night 12-13). Poles begin fighting withdrawal from Bzura.

WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, September 12, 1944: Western Front US 1st Army crosses Belgian-German border, near Eupen. Surrender of Le Havre. Politics ALLIED-ROMANIAN ARMISTICE signed in Moscow: Romania to

WW2 War Diary for Monday, September 11, 1939: Poland Germans cross river San, southeast Poland. Politics Churchill (as ‘A Naval Person’) begins correspondence with Roosevelt. Home Fronts Britain: 1,330,928 people